#environmental

We learned that economic growth and environmental protection can and should go hand in hand. ↗

— Christopher Dodd

#economic #economic growth #environmental protection #go #growth

American culture is torn between our long romance with violence and our terror of the devastation wrought by war and crime and environmental havoc. ↗

— Katherine Dunn

#american culture #between #crime #culture #devastation

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

#after #amusement #areas #barrier #disaster

Why should we not expect self-designated environmental leaders to practice what they preach? ↗

— David Frum

#expect #leaders #practice #preach #should

'The Skeptical Environmentalist' was much more the idea of the scientific argument of realizing that we need to be skeptical about a lot of these stories that we hear and to put them in context. ↗

— Bjorn Lomborg

#argument #context #environmentalist #hear #idea

Environmentalists hate sprawl - except when it comes to the size of their expansive pet legislation on Capitol Hill. ↗

— Michelle Malkin

#capitol hill #comes #environmentalists #except #expansive

Take a course in good water and air; and in the eternal youth of Nature you may renew your own. Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you. ↗

— John Muir

#air #alone #befall #course #eternal

God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fools. ↗

— John Muir

#cannot #cared #disease #drought #floods

When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe. ↗

— John Muir

#anything #else #everything #find #hitched

Architects in the past have tended to concentrate their attention on the building as a static object. I believe dynamics are more important: the dynamics of people, their interaction with spaces and environmental condition. ↗

— John Portman

#architects #attention #believe #building #concentrate