Like I said, I'm more worried long term about the environmental issues then the use of arms.
Hans Blix

Loads of chemicals and hazardous wastes have been introduced into the atmosphere that didn't even exist in 1948. The environmental condition of the planet is far worse than it was 42 years ago.
Gaylord Nelson

Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.
Will Durant

More than ever before, there is a global understanding that long-term social, economic, and environmental development would be impossible without healthy families, communities, and countries.
Gro Harlem Brundtland

Moreover, environmental health at the local level has become narrowly focused, very much defined around regulations and the attendant regulatory debates.
Samuel Wilson

Moreover, the practical recommendations deduced from ecological principles threaten the vested interests of commerce; it is hardly surprising that the financial and political power created by these investments should be used sometimes to suppress environmental impact studies.
Garrett Hardin

My efforts in Congress are guided by the belief that environmental preservation and restoration are a critical part of the legacy we leave to future generations.
Sue Kelly

My entry into the environmental arena was through the issue that so dramatically - and destructively - demonstrates the link between science and social action: nuclear weapons.
Barry Commoner

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

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

Of the 55 refineries closed in America in the last 10 years, they were all closed for economic reasons, mostly oil company mergers. Not a single one was closed for environmental purposes or objections.
Peter DeFazio

One of the responsibilities faced by the Environmental Genome Project is to provide the science base upon which society can make better informed risk management decisions.
Samuel Wilson

One of the things that I've always thought I would like to do is to develop an environmental index. Then people can measure their own environmental performance on an index as they do in other ways.
Maurice Strong

People in Slow Food understand that food is an environmental issue.
Michael Pollan

Practically every environmental problem we have can be traced to our addiction to fossil fuels, primarily oil.
Dennis Weaver

Pushing production out of America to nations without our environmental standards increases global environmental risks.
Frank Murkowski

Since the day he came into office, President Bush has worked to gut more than 34 years of hard work by weakening many of our Nation's standing environmental laws, some of which were signed into law by his father.
Jim Jeffords

So to hope to be able to have peace, to be able to have justice and environmental balance, are consequences of our behavior, not just our intentions.
Godfrey Reggio

Ted Turner is still a leader. And he sets a great example. His ability financially has been reduced, but his influence and his example still is an important asset to the whole environmental movement.
Maurice Strong

The Body Shop Foundation is run by our staff and supports social activism and environmental activism. We don't tend to support big agencies.
Anita Roddick