Thursday, August 19, 2010

A Collection of Quotes

"A clear conscience is usually the sign of a bad memory." - Steven Wright


"Why don't we pay more attention to who our farmers are? We would never be as careless choosing an auto mechanic or babysitter as we are about who grows our food." - Michael Pollan


"We've got to pause and ask ourselves: How much clean air do we need?"
 - Lee lacocca, CEO/Chairman, Chrysler Corporation, 1979-1992


"God loved the birds and invented trees. Man loved the birds and invented cages."
 - Jacques Deval

"I ask people why they have deer heads on their walls. They always say because it's such a beautiful animal.... I think my mother is attractive, but I have photographs of her."
 - Ellen DeGeneres

"People are more violently opposed to fur than leather because it's safer to harass rich women than motorcycle gangs." - Unknown

"Wolves are very resourceful. All they need to survive is for people not to shoot them."
 - Bob Ferris


"A man generally has two reasons for doing a thing: one that sounds good, and a real one."
- J.P. Morgan


"That's the thing about Mother Nature, she really doesn't care what economic bracket you're in." - Whoopi Goldberg


"The use of solar energy has not been opened up because the oil industry does not own the sun." - Ralph Nader


"Weeds are flowers too, once you get to know them." - Eeyore, from Winnie the Pooh


"I think God's going to come down and pull civilization over for speeding." - Steven Wright


"How inappropriate to call this planet Earth when it is clearly Ocean." - Arthur C. Clarke


"It isn't pollution that's harming the environment. It's the impurities in our air and water that are doing it.
 - Dan Quayle, former US vice president


"Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them." - Bill Vaughan


"The greenest house is the one that never gets built." - Whit Faulconer


"I think the environment should be put in the category of our national security. Defense of our resources is just as important as defense abroad. Otherwise, what is there to defend?" - Robert Redford


"There are no passengers on Spaceship Earth. We are all crew." - Marshall McLuhan

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