All we can hope for is that the thing is going to slowly and imperceptibly shift. All I can say is that 50 years ago there were no such thing as environmental policies. - David Attenborough
Earth Day 1970 was irrefutable evidence that the American people understood the environmental threat and wanted action to resolve it. - Barry Commoner
Furthermore, both Pennsylvania and New Jersey Departments of Environmental Protection have evaluated the sediment to be dredged and also found it to be not toxic. - Robert Brady
Practically every environmental problem we have can be traced to our addiction to fossil fuels, primarily oil. - Dennis Weaver
There should be more attention paid to scientific research in the ecology area, and I think that such attention to proper environmental concerns would make the public feel much better about it. - Thomas R. Cech
We had some major successes and we did so because the country embraced the spirit of Earth Day and embraced this concept that we have to have forward-looking, visionary environmental policy and energy policy in this country. - Jay Inslee
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
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 lens of choice was always the 35 mm. It was more environmental. You can't come in closer with the 35 mm. - Annie Leibovitz
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
This is absolutely bizarre that we continue to subsidize highways beyond the gasoline tax, airlines, and we don't subsidize, we don't want to subsidize a national rail system that has environmental impact. - Joe Biden
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
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
We all recognize that in recent decades, many important achievements have helped create a cleaner, healthier environment, yet our national needs in environmental health are not being fully met. - Samuel Wilson
I am on the board of corporations who contribute both to environmental problems and their solutions. And I am on the NGO side: the Earth Council and other organizations. - Maurice Strong
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
I took the initiative in moving forward a whole range of initiatives that have proven to be important to our country's economic growth, environmental protection, improvements in our educational system. - Al Gore
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
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
We have a project with Unocal here in Los Angeles, where we as an environmental organization, the oil company, and the state all get together to promote the recycling of used motor oil. - Ted Danson
It is one of the issues that will have to be worked through however let me make the point and I think anyone would accept that if you set it up properly, not only will you get better environmental outcomes, you have a chance to create more wealth with the available resource. - John Anderson
You cannot achieve environmental security and human development without addressing the basic issues of health and nutrition. - Gro Harlem Brundtland
By adopting the control strategy, the nation's environmental program has created a built-in antagonism between environmental quality and economic growth. - Barry Commoner
In every case, the environmental hazards were made known only by independent scientists, who were often bitterly opposed by the corporations responsible for the hazards. - Barry Commoner
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
I've developed a huge regard for Toyota for its environmental awareness, for its immense commitment to research and development in this field, and for its leadership in developing hybrids which others are now following. - Maurice Strong
We created the Cabinet Committee on the Environment to review the environmental implications of all government initiatives. I think what made us successful was the fact that it was a sustained approach. We did something new every year. - Brian Mulroney
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. - Jim Jeffords
I think it makes people in the Pentagon kind of nervous to know that chemical agents and environmental factors could cause so much damage in terms of what may happen in the future. - Bernard Sanders
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