A building that has great environmental responsibility is a political animal in a way because it becomes promotional of a cause. I think that kind of advocacy through architecture is really good. – Antoine Predock
Climate change is happening, humans are causing it, and I think this is perhaps the most serious environmental issue facing us. – Bill Nye
We must move away from our dependency on fossil fuels, and I am glad that GM has invested over $1 billion in hydrogen fuel cells cars to meet this goal. – Albert Wynn
Environmental quality was drastically improved while economic activity grew by the simple expedient of removing lead from gasoline – which prevented it from entering the environment. – Barry Commoner
Autoimmunity is probably the next frontier. The majority of cases of autoimmune disease result from a complex genetic problem that has environmental influences. It is a colossal task for the immune system to maintain tolerance to self and yet be ready to react to everything in the world around us. – Bruce Beutler
The North Pole will be ice-free during summer in years to come, and that itself will put the Arctic Sea basin on a very high risk of… environmental disasters that might be there. – Aleqa Hammond
Unless action is taken soon – unless we can display the same vision of that earlier period – we will lose the treasure of California’s open space and environmental beauty. – Adam Schiff
Wear the badge of environmental radicalism, and you’re a citizen automatically under suspicion. – Alexander Cockburn
I had never been able to get a car that said how much I cared about the environment until I drove electric. – Alexandra Paul
Climate change is a terrible problem, and it absolutely needs to be solved. It deserves to be a huge priority. – Bill Gates
Many environmental advocates argue that agricultural pollution will be reduced only through stronger federal laws. – Charles Duhigg
My lens of choice was always the 35 mm. It was more environmental. You can’t come in closer with the 35 mm. – Annie Leibovitz
There is a muscular energy in sunlight corresponding to the spiritual energy of wind. – Annie Dillard
Global markets must be balanced by global values such as respect for human rights and international law, democracy, security and sustainable economic and environmental development. – Anna Lindh
Environmental activism against the resource industry is widespread all over the world, but at the same time we have to realise that these are basic materials on which civilisation depends. We need to tap natural resources in a sustainable manner. – Anil Agarwal
We are using resources as if we had two planets, not one. There can be no ‘plan B’ because there is no ‘planet B.’ – Ban Ki-moon
It is extremely important to me that the social and environmental issues associated with the production of fashion clothing are addressed. – Bonnie Wright
A primary function of art and thought is to liberate the individual from the tyranny of his culture in the environmental sense and to permit him to stand beyond it in an autonomy of perception and judgment. – Beverly Sills
We have fought for social justice. We have fought for economic justice. We have fought for environmental justice. We have fought for criminal justice. Now we must add a new fight – the fight for electoral justice. – Barbara Boxer
I think future engineered species could be the source of food, hopefully a source of energy, environmental remediation and perhaps replacing the petrochemical industry. – Craig Venter
Cities all over the world are getting bigger as more and more people move from rural to urban sites, but that has created enormous problems with respect to environmental pollution and the general quality of life. – Alan Dundes
Harmony with land is like harmony with a friend; you cannot cherish his right hand and chop off his left. – Aldo Leopold
I don’t see this planet being… they’re talking about how they’re turning around the environmental problems here, but I think it’s already too late. – Ace Frehley
My idea of an amusement park story is getting adventurers to go tour environmental disaster areas. After all, if the entire Great Barrier Reef gets killed, which seems like an extremely lively possibility, what are you going to do with all that rotting limestone? – Bruce Sterling
When you buy a jacket, you pick the size to ensure it fits. Similarly, we live in a universe in which the amount of dark energy fits our biological make-up. If the amount of dark energy were substantially different from what we’ve measured, the environmental conditions would be inhospitable to our form of life. – Brian Greene
There is no larger collective-action problem than the environment. The three biggest lies of the environmental movement is that every little bit helps, you can do your part, and together we can do it. – Clay Shirky
What I have experienced over time is that environmental problems are easier to deal with in ways that don’t go into their interconnections to the rest of what we are. – Barry Commoner
Earth Day 1970 was irrefutable evidence that the American people understood the environmental threat and wanted action to resolve it. – Barry Commoner
