Environmental : (148)

" Ocean acidification – the excess carbon dioxide in the atmosphere that is turning the oceans increasingly acid – is a slow but accelerating impact with consequences that will greatly overshadow all the oil spills put together. The warming trend that is CO2-related will overshadow all the oil spills that have ever occurred put together. " - Sylvia Earle

" I’ve long believed the environmental issue is an economic issue and a political issue. The three are entwined. You can’t build prosperity on any basis other than a long-term basis, and you can’t do that if you don’t have a healthy environment. " - Henry Paulson

" I do see a lot of the hard end of ecology, and my feeling is that we live on a super-exciting planet but a super-fragile one. " - Bear Grylls

" The environmental effects of the automobile are well known: motor vehicles cause, for example, as much as 75 percent of the noise and 80 percent of the air pollution in our cities, and the industry must face mounting pressure from environmentalists. " - Stewart Udall

" I collect a lot of eco-friendly shopping bags that serve to separate my shoes other and other small stuff in my luggage. " - Liu Wen

" Everybody wants to support his own region and economy and farming. If we can preserve the land and if we can preserve the ocean, we all know, deep inside that we’re doing the right thing. " - Eric Ripert

" Inevitably, ecological awareness has this kind of ’70s flavour to it. " - Timothy Morton

" From the first I became convinced that what I must look for was lead dust and lead fumes, that men were poisoned by breathing poisoned air, not by handling their food with unwashed hands. " - Alice Hamilton

" It isn’t safe to go to the parks. Toxic chemicals ruin the air and water. There is vandalism, even crime, and conscientious park personnel are demoralized. " - Michael Frome

" The quicker we humans learn that saving open space and wildlife is critical to our welfare and quality of life, maybe we’ll start thinking of doing something about it. " - Jim Fowler