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  • The World we all share is given to us in trust. Every choice we make regarding the earth, air, and water around us should be made with the objective of preserving it for all generations to come.

  • The next decade will perhaps raise us a step above despair to a cleaner, clearer wisdom and biology cannot fail to help in this. As we become increasingly aware of the ethical problems raised by science and technology, the frontiers between the biological and social sciences are clearly of critical importance-in population density and problems of hunger, psychological stress, pollution of the air and water and exhaustion of irreplaceable resources.

  • Money is like fire, an element as little troubled by moralizing as earth, air and water. Men can employ it as a tool or they can dance around it as if it were the incarnation of a god. Money votes socialist or monarchist, finds a profit in pornography or translations from the Bible, commissions Rembrandt and underwrites the technology of Auschwitz. It acquires its meaning from the uses to which it is put.

    Money   Men   Technology  
  • Man is a complex being: he makes deserts bloom - and lakes die.

    Nature   Men   Lakes  
  • Clean air and water, a diversity of animal and plant species, soil and mineral resources, and predictable weather are annuities that will pay dividends for as long as the human race survives – and may even extend our stay on Earth.

    Animal   Race   Air  
    "The Next Green Revolution" by Alex Steffen, www.wired.com. May 1, 2006.
  • Meanwhile let us cast one shadow in air and water.

    Air   Water   Shadow  
  • The spinning wheel is as much a necessity of Indian life as air and water.

    Air   Water   Spinning  
    Mahatma Gandhi (1984). “The Quintessence of Gandhi in His Own Words”
  • War contributes greatly to global warming, which shouldn't surprise us. All those bombs going off, all those rockets, all those planes and helicopters. All that fuel of various kinds being used. It pollutes the air and water of this very fragile and interconnected planet.

    War   Air   Water  
  • We've got to pause and ask ourselves: How much clean air do we need?

  • Most of life is offline, and I think it always will be; eating and aching and sleeping and loving happen in the body. But it's not impossible to imagine losing my appetite for those things; they aren't always easy, and they take so much time. In twenty years I'd be interviewing air and water and heat just to remember they mattered.

    Sleep   Thinking   Air  
    Miranda July (2011). “It Chooses You”, p.50, Canongate Books
  • Quality of life is the sum total of the fairness of our tax structure; the caliber of our homes; the cleanliness of our air and water; and the provision of affirmative assistance to those who cannot assist themselves. True quality is absent if we allow social suffering to abide in an otherwise pristine environment.

    Home   Oregon   Air  
  • We still have too much air and water pollution and we still need to work to reduce it. But we also need to put the problem of pollution into a historical as well as scientific perspective.

    Air   Water   Perspective  
    "Ronald Reagan's Call to Action". Book by Charles D. Hobbs, 1976.
  • Plans to protect air and water, wilderness and wildlife are in fact plans to protect man.

    Nature   Men   Air  
    Stewart L. Udall (1968). “1976: Agenda for Tomorrow”
  • The American people today are involved in a warfare more deadly than the war in Vietnam, but few of them seem aware of it and even fewer of them are doing anything about it. This is a war that is being waged against the American environment, against our lands, air, and water, which are the basis of that environment.

    War   Air   Land  
  • The connection between toxicity and cancer and safe air and water and food, all of that was important all along, as were women's and human rights issues, but the nuke issue and the safe energy movement became really important to me in the mid-'70s.

    Cancer   Rights   Air  
    "Origin Interview: Diggin' Deep with Bonnie Raitt, Legend, Activist, Musician". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. April 27, 2016.
  • The biggest tab the public picks up for fossil fuels has to do with what economists call 'external costs,' like the health effects of air and water pollution.

    Air   Water   Fossils  
  • You will find many a creature by earth, air, and water, that is more beautiful than a woman.

    Beautiful   Air   Water  
    Elizabeth Montagu (2015). “The Letters of Mrs Elizabeth Montagu”, p.118, Cambridge University Press
  • Today, about 40 percent of America's carbon pollution comes from our power plants. There are no federal limits to the amount those plants can pump into the air. None. We limit the amount of toxic chemicals like mercury, and sulfur, and arsenic in our air and water, but power plants can dump as much carbon pollution into our atmosphere as they want. It's not smart, it's not right, it's not safe, and I determined it needs to stop.

    Smart   America   Air  
  • Water and air, the two essential fluids on which all life depends, have become global garbage cans.

    Ocean   Air   Aquariums  
  • Real actors are the most courageous people I know. They dare to live vibrantly in the present and to state in a clear way, and in front of hundreds of witnesses, 'this is what I know to be true; this is my point of view and I will risk my life for it. Think of me what you will, I will fight - with any and every means available to me - for what I know is as right and as necessary as air and water.'

    Real   Mean   Fighting  
  • Art is a vocation, as much as anything in this world. For the real artist, it is the most natural thing in the world, not as necessary as air and water, perhaps, but as food and water. But we really do lead almost a monastic life, you know; to follow it you very often have to give up something.

    Art   Giving Up   Real  
    Katherine Anne Porter, Joan Givner (1987). “Katherine Anne Porter: Conversations”, p.86, Univ. Press of Mississippi
  • The best thing about the sciences is their philosophical ingredient, like life for an organic body. If one dephilosophizes the sciences, what remains left? Earth, air, and water.

    "Pollen and Fragments". Book by Novalis. Fragment No. 62, 1798.
  • I don't think of community as being a romantic notion. I think it's as vital as air and water, and so I think that informs a lot of what I write about. It could be a story about a couple, or a song about the slow death of the family farm or a small town.

    Song   Couple   Writing  
    Source: www.motherjones.com
  • The Captains of Industry have always counseled the rest of us "to be realistic." Let us, therefore, be realistic. Is it realistic to assume that the present economy would be just fine if only it would stop poisoning the air and water, or if only it would stop soil erosion, or if only it would stop degrading watersheds and forest ecosystems, or if only it would stop seducing children, or if only it would stop buying politicians, or if only it would give women and favored minorities an equitable share of the loot?

    Wendell Berry (2001). “In the Presence of Fear: Three Essays for a Changed World”
  • I saw the Vietnam Veterans Memorial not as an object placed into the earth but as a cut in the earth that has then been polished, like a geode. Interest in the land and concern about how we are polluting the air and water of the planet are what make me want to travel back in geologic time-to witness the shaping of the earth before man.

    Cutting   Men   Land  
    Quoted in Smithsonian Magazine, Aug. 1996
  • 'Fire' does not matter, 'earth' and 'air' and 'water' do not matter. 'I' do not matter. No word matters. But man forgets reality and remembers words. The more words he remembers, the cleverer do his fellows esteem him. He looks upon the great transformations of the world, but he does not see them as they were seen when man looked upon reality for the first time. Their names come to his lips and he smiles as he tastes them, thinking he knows them in the naming.

    Reality   Men   Thinking  
    "Lord of Light". Book by Roger Zelazny, 1967.
  • Happiness, like air and water, the other two great requisites of life, is composite. One kind of it suits one man, another kind another. The elevated mind takes in and breathes out again that which would be uncongenial to the baser; and the baser draws life and enjoyment from that which would be putridity to the loftier.

    Happiness   Men   Air  
    Walter Savage Landor (1853). “The works of Walter Savage Landor [ed. by J. Forster].”, p.6
  • until you are master over the earth and air and water and fire in yourself, how can you be master of the elements of Nature?

    Fire   Air   Water  
  • We have some real political differences among us, but we all share the same goals: clean air and water, injury free workplaces, safe transportation systems, to name a few of the good things that can come from regulation.

  • Environmental laws were not passed to protect our air and water, they were passed to get votes.

    Air   Law   Water  
    Song: The Central Scrutinizer
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