Quotes of Environmental - somelinesforyou

“ Darwin's dice have rolled badly for Earth. The human species is, in a word, an environmental abnormality. Perhaps a law of evolution is that intelligence usually extinguishes itself. ”

- Edward O. Wilson

“ Advertising is an environmental striptease for a world of abundance. ”

- Marshall McLuhan

“ Ethanol is a premier, high performance fuel. It has tremendous environmental benefits and is a key component to energy independence for our country. ”

- Richard Lugar

“ 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

“ Does a poet create, originate, initiate the thing called a poem, or is his behavior merely the product of his genetic and environmental histories? ”

- B. F. Skinner

“ Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions. ”

- William J. Durant

“ Just as there's garbage that pollutes the Potomac river, there is garbage polluting our culture. We need an Environmental Protection Agency to clean it up. ”

- Patrick Buchanan

“ If the federal government had been around when the Creator was putting His hand to this state, Indiana wouldn't be here. It'd still be waiting for an environmental impact statement. ”

- Ronald Reagan

“ Happiness is not dependent upon circumstances but upon attitudes; it is not so much environmental as mental. ”

- William A. Ward

“ I'm not writing the novels to be a preacher, but I obviously feel, as everybody doe,s strongly about environmental issues. But I'm not a zealot. I don't think we should all have to wear Hessian underwear and knit our yoghurt. ”

- Ben Elton

“ A very Faustian choice is upon us: whether to accept our corrosive and risky behavior as the unavoidable price of population and economic growth, or to take stock of ourselves and search for a new environmental ethic. ”

- Edward O. Wilson

“ Architects in the past have tended to concentrate their attention on the building as a static object. I believe dynamics are more important: the dynamics of people, their interaction with spaces and environmental condition. ”

- John Portman

“ This Bush administration has a growing credibility gap, maybe even a credibility chasm, on environmental policy. The President has lost the trust of the American people when it comes to the environment. ”

- James Jeffords

“ I align myself with almost all researchers in assuming that anything we do is a composite of whatever genetic limitations were given to us by our parents and whatever kinds of environmental opportunities are available. ”

- Howard Gardner

“ I've always been a strong supporter of environmental protection and initiatives in that area. But I'm willing to set priorities. If we have to make reductions in one place, we'll have to-in order to increase another place, I'm willing to do that. ”

- Judd Gregg
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