Best green & environment Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“I don't ever want to do a movie where you shoot it on a motion capture stage. I just don't like taking the reality out of it. I like being on the set in real environments. I don't like shooting on green screen. I think it gives the actors so much more to play with when there's real stuff happening on the set.”

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Author:Michael Bay

“Show me a healthy community with a healthy economy and I will show you a community that has its green infrastructure in order and understands the relationship between the built and the unbuilt environment.”

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Author:Will Rogers

“The Silicon Valley Manufacturing Group strongly supports green-line policies, because the only way to attract top level employees and their families is to protect the region's open space and environment. We want to build a community that is demonstrates smart growth rather than a model for L.A.-type growth.”

“Yes, the Green Party is committed to a healthy environment. But the Green Party is not solely committed to just that.”

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Author:Cynthia McKinney

“Sometimes when I talk to little children I remind them of the fact that when I was growing up myself, I used to play with frog eggs and tadpoles and I used to walk in the field, I used to literally copy whatever my mother was doing on the land. And that may be the reason why I eventually developed the passion for green and for the Earth. So it is extremely important for adults and especially those who are in charge of cities to make sure that we do not lose touch with the land and with the environment. And especially our children.”

“The only technology that helps to create a plethora of business and employment opportunity while promoting the green environment, is serving good for the society and, therefore, the sustainability.”

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Author:Anuj

“We can change our thinking. Rather than viewing the chemical adulteration of our environment and our bodies as the inevitable practice of convenience and progress, we can decide that cancer is inconvenient and toxic pollution archaic and primitive. We can start seeing the creation of carcinogens as the result of outmoded technologies. We can demand green engineering and green chemistry. We can let our systems of industry and agriculture know that they are suffering from a design flaw.”

“I'm eternally optimistic about the future. I believe that if we are committed towards it and if we continue to educate people and get the whole world community to implement green features and aspects in not just the built environment not just in their lifestyles but in their businesses in their industries then we're heading towards a green future.”

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Author:Ken Yeang

“As part of our ongoing series of reports on the environment, 'America Goes Green,' we take on the question that can make otherwise competent adults quake with fear. We've all been there. You come to the end of the checkout line and then comes that question: 'Paper or plastic?' For that one brief moment, we grocery buyers are made to feel like the fate of the planet hinges on our decision.”

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Author:Brian Williams

“As people flock to urban centers where ground space is limited, cities with green walls and roofs and skyscraper farms offer improved health and well-being, renewable resources, reliable food supply, and relief to the environment.”

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Author:Diane Ackerman

“Iraqi Kurds, out of desperate necessity, have forged one of the most watchful and vigilant anti-terrorist communities in the world. Terrorists from elsewhere just can't operate in that kind of environment. Al Qaeda members who do manage to infiltrate are hunted down like rats. This conservative Muslim society did a better job protecting me from Islamist killers than the U.S. military could do in the Green Zone in Baghdad.”

“When it comes to acting on green screen, it doesn't really make all that much of a difference to me because how you interact with your environment or characters is always dictated by your imagination. So when you're acting against a green screen, you have more of an opportunity to create your own world. So what was magical throughout this process was watching this movie come to life with the 3D.”

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Author:Anita Briem

“And in the process, we have come up with fuels - algae-based fuels, isobutanol-based fuels and other fuels - that we think will power the planes in the future so that, you know, by 2020 I hope that our planes will be powered on fuels that are clean fuels and are not polluting the environment so that we'll have a green airline and an airline that actually has fuels that will be hopefully cheaper than the dirty fuels of the past. So [we're] doing good and also turning a profit at the same time.”

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Author:Richard Branson

“The Bowling Green game was a big-time environment. We wanna see that for all the games.”

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Author:Nate Oats

“What we should do is require or at least permit innovators to license their green innovations free of charge in exchange for public payments based on the impact this innovation has on the environment - emissions averted or something of this sort.”

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Author:Thomas Pogge

“We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect.”

“Green is the prime color of the world, and that from which its loveliness arises.”

“There are no passengers on spaceship earth. We are all crew.”

“The use of solar energy has not been opened up because the oil industry does not own the sun.”

“Plans to protect air and water, wilderness and wildlife are in fact plans to protect man.”

Source: 1976: Agenda for Tomorrow

“Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them.”

“I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority.”

“Dear future generations: Please accept our apologies. We were rolling drunk on petroleum.”

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Author:Kurt Vonnegut

“Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's needs, but not every man's greed.”

“If you violate Nature's laws you are your own prosecuting attorney, judge, jury, and hangman.”

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Author:Luther Burbank

“after an epic search, I finally found something neither green nor fuzzy. It was a hot sausage link. I named it Peter, mostly because it seemed like the right thing to do. As soon as my java was piping hot I popped him into the microwave. hopefully the radioactive environment would sterilize Peter. No need to have little Peters running around, wreaking havoc.”

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Book:Third Grave Dead Ahead

Source: Third Grave Dead Ahead

“The earth is what we all have in common.”

Source: The Unsettling of America: Culture & Agriculture

“The sun is the only safe nuclear reactor, situated as it is some ninety-three million miles away.”

Source: In Praise of Nature

“You could cover the whole earth with asphalt, but sooner or later green grass would break through.”

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Author:Ilya Ehrenburg

“Nature provides a free lunch, but only if we control our appetites.”

“We are seeing the birth of a new perspective of the world, where ecology and economics are two sides of the same coin.”

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Author:Leif Johansson

“It gradually became clear that the Green Belt Movement's work with communities to repair the degraded environment could not be done effectively without participants embracing a set of core spiritual values.”

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Book:Replenishing the Earth: Spiritual Values for Healing Ourselves and the World

Source: Replenishing the Earth: Spiritual Values for Healing Ourselves and the World

“...Denmark should be a green and sustainable society with a visionary climate and energy policy...The answer to these challenges lies in the way we produce and consume energy and in our ability to adapt our society to climate change.”

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Author:Connie Hedegaard

“...if we all turned down the thermostat in our house by just one degree, we would save over £650 million worth of energy and nearly nine million tonnes of carbon emissions every year. That would be the equivalent of taking three million cars off our roads...we can bring about a Green Consumer Revolution in this country to improve our lives, enrich our economy and protect our environment.”

“Only when I saw the Earth from space, in all its ineffable beauty and fragility, did I realize that humankind's most urgent task is to cherish and preserve it for future generations.”

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Author:Sigmund Jahn

“In Mexico City, Tehran, Kolkata, Bangkok, Shanghai, and hundreds of other cities, the air is no longer safe to breathe. In some cities, the air is so polluted that breathing is equivalent to smoking two packs of cigarettes per day.”

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Book:Plan B 3.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization (Substantially Revised)

Source: Plan B 3.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization (Substantially Revised)

“From a distance the world looks blue and green, and the snow-capped mountains white. From a distance the ocean meets the stream, and the eagle takes to flight. From a distance, there is harmony, and it echoes through the land. It's the voice of hope, it's the voice of peace, it's the voice of every man”

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Author:Bette Midler

“I see trees of green, red roses too. I see them bloom for me and you. And I think to myself what a wonderful world. I see skies of blue and clouds of white. The bright blessed day, the dark sacred night. And I think to myself what a wonderful world”

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Author:Louis Armstrong

“My intuition told me that it was the grass that was important.Now it glows parrot-green, cool as mint, soft as moss, lying there like a cashmere blanket.”

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Author:W. P. Kinsella

“Being green saves you money. Being green saves you green.”

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Author:Sophia Bush

“The women of the Green Belt Movement have learned about the causes and the symptoms of environmental degradation. They have begun to appreciate that they, rather than their government, ought to be the custodians of the environment.”

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Author:Wangari Maathai

“Water and air, the two essential fluids on which all life depends, have become global garbage cans.”

“I read, for the first time, of the Carolina Parakeet-a North American parakeet whose green, yellow and reddish-orange plumage appeared vivacious and altogether quite wonderful. As stunning as I found the hawk-chased conures, this bird astounded me even more. That the Carolina Parakeet was extinct simply added to my amazement.”

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Book:Hope Is the Thing With Feathers: A Personal Chronicle of Vanished Birds

Source: Hope Is the Thing With Feathers: A Personal Chronicle of Vanished Birds

“Green is the new black: make the environment part of your personal brand.”

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Author:Laura K. Ipsen

“The surest path to safe streets and peaceful communities is not more police and prisons, but ecologically sounds economic development. And that same path can lift us to a new, green economy - one with the power to lift people out of poverty while respecting and repairing the environment.”

Source: The Green Collar Economy: How One Solution Can Fix Our Two Biggest Problems

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