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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 | |
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 |
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
I know the human being and fish can coexist peacefully. — George W. Bush, 1946-, American President 4 likes | |
It has come to my attention, that air pollution is polluting the air! — George W. Bush, 1946-, American President 3 likes |
Proverbs
Take only what you need and leave the land as you found it. — American Indian proverb ‐ Arapaho 4 likes |