(259 quotes found)
“Our environmental problems originate in the hubris of imagining ourselves as the central nervous system or the brain of nature. We're not the brain, we are a cancer on nature.”
Dave Foreman
“To shake your rump is to be environmentally aware.”
David Byrne
“Professionalism is environmental. Amateurism is anti environmental. Professionalism merges the individual into patterns of total environment. Amateurism seeks the development of the total awareness of the individual and the critical awareness of the ground rules of society. The amateur can afford to loose.”
Marshall McLuhan
“Environmental damage such as graffiti, fly-posting and general littering is a menace that is becoming all too prevalent, not just in inner cities but in many communities - urban and rural.”
Margaret Beckett
“You must not deal only with the symptoms. You have to get to the root causes by promoting environmental rehabilitation and empowering people to do things for themselves. What is done for the people without involving them cannot be sustained.”
Wangari Maathai
“Franklin Roosevelt was very concerned about environmental issues.”
Gaylord Nelson
“A more empirically grounded, fact-based approach to environmental policymaking will require investments in data collection on a global level.”
Daniel Esty
“We were criticized by the seasonal forecasters for not including the other environmental factors, like wind shear, in our analysis. [We didn't do so] because on time scales longer than 2-3 years, these do not seem to matter very much. This paper more or less proves this point.”
Kerry Emanuel
“The most important environmental issue is one that is rarely mentioned, and that is the lack of a conservation ethic in our culture.”
“Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions”
Will Durant
