best quotations about
Environment |
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Quotations
 | Would you bet your paycheck on a weather forecast for tomorrow? If not, then why should this country bet billions on global warming predictions that have even less foundation? — Thomas Sowell, 1930 -, American political thinker 18 likes |
 | Dear future generations: Please accept our apologies. We were rolling drunk on petroleum. — Kurt Vonnegut, 1922-2007, American writer 11 likes |
 | All the waste in a year from a nuclear power plant can be stored under a desk. — Ronald Reagan, 1911-2004, American President [1981-1989] 8 likes |
 | What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on? — Henry David Thoreau, 1817-1862, American writer 5 likes |
 | If we ruin the earth, there is no place else to go. — Carl Sagan, 1934-1996, American astronomer 5 likes |
 | "It's a question of discipline," the little prince told me later on. "When you've finished washing and dressing each morning, you must tend your planet." — Antoin de Saint-Exupéry, 1900-1940, French writer 2 likes |
 | Environment: what nature becomes when humans protect it. — Yevgeny Kaseyev, contemporary Russian author of maxims 1 likes |
 | Fresh air is good if you do not take too much of it; most of the achievements and pleasures of life are in bad air. |
 | In any race between human numbers and natural resources, time is against us. |
 | Men are the vermin of the earth. |
 | Environments are not just containers, but are processes that change the content totally. — Marshall McLuhan, 1911-1980, Canadian academic & media theorist |
 | Most of the people who have grabbed hold of climate change and greenhouse gases, pollution, oil dependency - they have another motive, and their motive is to attain the appearance of virtue without having actually done anything virtuous. |
 | Forests precede peoples, deserts follow them. — François-René de Chateaubriand, 1768-1848, French poet & politician |
 | I knew a time when the main pollution came from people shaking their carpets out of the window. |
Funny Quotes
 | The planet is fine. The people are fucked. — George Carlin, 1936-2008, American comedian 14 likes |
 | What do you do when you see an endangered animal that eats only endangered plants? — Steven Wright, 1955-, American comedian 4 likes |
Stupid Quotes
 | It has come to my attention, that air pollution is polluting the air! — George W. Bush, 1946-, American President 4 likes |
| I know the human being and fish can coexist peacefully. — George W. Bush, 1946-, American President 4 likes |
Proverbs
 | Take only what you need and leave the land as you found it. — American Indian proverb ‐ Arapaho 4 likes |
