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Environment
"Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone."
By : John Maynard Keynes
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"Children between ages one and three are at the greatest risk [of lead poisoning] because of normal hand-to-mouth activity and the increase in mobility during their second and third years, which make lead hazards more accessible to them."
By : President's Task Force on Environmental Health Risks and Safety Risks to Children [2000]
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"Civilization is in no immediate danger of running out of energy or even just out of oil. But we are running out of environment—that is, out of the capacity of the environment to absorb energy's impacts without risk of intolerable disruption—and our heavy dependence on oil in particular entails not only environmental but also economic and political liabilities."
By : Vijay V. Vaitheeswaran
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"Cleaning anything involves making something else dirty, but anything can get dirty without something else getting clean."
By : Laurence J. Peter
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"Climate change is for real. We have just a small window of opportunity and it is closing rather rapidly. There is not a moment to lose."
By : Dr. Rajendra Pachauri
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"Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence in society."
By : Mark Twain
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"Considering the whole span of earthly time... Only within the moment of time represented by the present century has one species – man – acquired significant power to alter the nature of his world."
By : Rachel Carson
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"Cows were made to eat grass.... The two biggest things that harm a cow are grain and concrete. By kicking the cows outside and letting them be on the sod and letting them eat the grass, you can get rid of about 90% of your cow problems."
By : Kevin Sullivan
dairy farmer
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"Desire is irrelevant. I am a machine."
By : T-101/Arnold
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"Despite progress, lead poisoning remains one of the top childhood environmental health problems today. Without further action, over the coming decades large numbers of young children may be exposed to lead in amounts that could impair their ability to learn and to reach their full potential."
By : President's Task Force on Environmental Health Risks and Safety Risks to Children [2000]
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"Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time, who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done, if we are always doing."
By : Thomas Jefferson
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"Do not wait for extraordinary circumstances to do good action; try to use ordinary situations."
By : Jean Paul Richter
German Romantic novelist and humorist
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"Each one [of the Earth's 5 million invertebrate species] plays a role in its ecosystem. It's like we're tearing the cogs out of a great machine. The machine might work after you tear out ten cogs, but what happens when you tear out a hundred?"
By : Scott Black
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"Each Valentine's day, when US and other consumers purchase millions of flowers for their loved ones and deeply inhale the fresh aroma of roses and carnations, they rarely think about where the flowers come from or how they are produced. Yet, if these same people knew more about the high levels of agrochemicals used in flower production and the often less-than-rosy labor conditions under which flowers are produced, they might think twice about sinking their noses into the petals to smell the perfume."
By : Environmental Health Perspectives
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"Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's need, but not every man's greed."
By : Mahatma Gandhi
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