Sophia Bush Quotes

Environmental concerns and feminism are locked together. Generally, women have closer connections to the organic nature of our lives.

Environmental policy must strike a balance between the earth's best interests and our citizen's pressing needs.

The 'environmental left' tells us that, though we have natural resources like natural gas and oil and coal, and though we can feed the world, we should keep those things in the ground, put up fences, and be about prohibition.

I never lose an opportunity to speak about my obsession: humankind and the environment.

To deal with these problems - of world population and hunger, of peace, of energy and mineral resources, of environmental pollution, of poverty - we must broaden and deepen our knowledge of nature's laws, and we must broaden and deepen our understanding of the laws of human behavior.

Moreover, the practical recommendations deduced from ecological principles threaten the vested interests of commerce; it is hardly surprising that the financial and political power created by these investments should be used sometimes to suppress environmental impact studies.

It's no secret - if you know me, have ever met me or have shared a meal with me - that I'm a passionate environmentalist.

In a few decades, the relationship between the environment, resources and conflict may seem almost as obvious as the connection we see today between human rights, democracy and peace.

I tell my environmental friends that they have won. Every issue we look at from an energy perspective is now also looked at from an environmental perspective.

Environmentalism is a way of seeing our place within the biosphere.

The environmental crisis arises from a fundamental fault: our systems of production - in industry, agriculture, energy and transportation - essential as they are, make people sick and die.

For too much of history, we've viewed the world's precious resources - both environmental and human - as things to extract, to make the most of in order to maximize their potential.

I think it's important to watch out for our environment and to be careful.

We won't have a society if we destroy the environment.

I'm a little different from all those conservation types.

The environmental crisis is a global problem, and only global action will resolve it.

Environmental disaster is the gravest threat to China's continued development. That's according to me, but it is not some wacko view.

My efforts in Congress are guided by the belief that environmental preservation and restoration are a critical part of the legacy we leave to future generations.

I think we have grave problems. I am very much concerned about environmental questions, even though in Finnish society, we are not facing the most urgent problems.

We are using resources as if we had two planets, not one. There can be no 'plan B' because there is no 'planet B.'

I wish politicians would put the environment at the centre of every agenda.

The main environmental challenge of the 21st century is poverty. When you don't know where your next meal is coming from, it's hard to consider the environment 100 years down the line.

Every once in a while, I get mad. 'The Lorax' came out of my being angry. The ecology books I'd read were dull... In 'The Lorax,' I was out to attack what I think are evil things and let the chips fall where they might.

There should be more attention paid to scientific research in the ecology area, and I think that such attention to proper environmental concerns would make the public feel much better about it.

I think its time to change and balance the environment and growth. If we don't do that, we're going to suffer a hard landing one day very soon.