#environmental

The Long Island Sound is an environmentally unique estuary that needs to be protected. ↗

— Tim Bishop

#estuary #island #long #long island #needs

Cities all over the world are getting bigger as more and more people move from rural to urban sites, but that has created enormous problems with respect to environmental pollution and the general quality of life. ↗

— Alan Dundes

#cities #created #enormous #environmental #general

Having yet another vote on refinery legislation that uses high oil prices as an excuse to weaken environmental protections and to give more legislative gifts to the oil industry is misguided in the extreme. ↗

— Sherwood Boehlert

#environmental #excuse #extreme #gifts #give

Let me start by emphasizing that I am open to efforts to expedite environmental procedures for true emergencies or in other clear cases where current laws are needlessly burdensome. ↗

— Sherwood Boehlert

#burdensome #cases #clear #current #efforts

Well, for starters, we have to do more to create demand for new technologies that can reduce our dependence on foreign oil and environmental degradation. ↗

— Sherwood Boehlert

#degradation #demand #dependence #environmental #foreign

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

#both #departments #environmental #environmental protection #evaluated

You cannot achieve environmental security and human development without addressing the basic issues of health and nutrition. ↗

— Gro Harlem Brundtland

#addressing #basic #cannot #development #environmental

Perhaps the time has come to cease calling it the "environmentalist" view, as though it were a lobbying effort outside the mainstream of human activity, and to start calling it the real-world view. ↗

— E. O. Wilson

#calling #cease #come #effort #environmentalist

I finally understood that I couldn’t avoid working to provide for myself, but that can also be a wonderful thing, a beautiful thing. ↗

— Andy Couturier

#environmentalism #green #japan #sustainability #beauty

A new respect for Nature had been learned, a new kinship with sun and water and soil....They had learned that while Nature is often beautiful and kind, her laws must be respected, for they are ruthless and inexorable as well. Man must accept these laws and adjust his way of living to them. Then only can he prosper. ↗

— Lois Lenski

#lesson-for-life #beauty