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  • Humor is a serious thing. I like to think of it as one of our greatest earliest natural resources, which must be preserved at all cost. -- James Thurber
  • In Israel, a land lacking in natural resources, we learned to appreciate our greatest national advantage: our minds. Through creativity and innovation, we transformed barren deserts into flourishing fields and pioneered new frontiers in science and technology. -- Shimon Peres
  • When elected officials abandon our environment and ruin our natural resources, public health is endangered. I know the importance of providing a clean environment for our children; I have attended more than one funeral for a child who has died from an asthma attack. -- Gwen Moore
  • The seven things that make up the rainbow of India's development are India's strong and deep rooted family system, Agriculture-Animal development, India's Matru Shakti (women power), Natural Resources (Jal, Jameen, Jungle), Youth power, Vibrant Democracy and Knowledge. -- Narendra Modi
  • As Michigan's voice on the Senate Finance Committee and Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, I will continue working to make sure the next generation of advanced technologies and alternative fuel vehicles are made right here in America. -- Debbie Stabenow
  • The production of natural resources in agriculture, forestry and fisheries, stable natural hydrological cycles, fertile soils, a balanced climate and numerous other vital ecosystem services can only be permanently secured through the protection and sustainable use of biological diversity. -- Sigmar Gabriel
  • Children are our most valuable natural resource. -- Herbert Hoover
  • Canada has great natural resources, and its people have the spirit and ability to develop them. -- Charles E. Wilson
  • Important reserves of natural resources, like petroleum and precious metals, are the bulwarks for laying the foundations for the future. -- Enrique Pena Nieto
  • Nigeria is a West African nation of over 100 million energetic people. It is endowed with lots of natural resources but lacks human resources. -- Philip Emeagwali
  • The conservation of natural resources is the fundamental problem. Unless we solve that problem it will avail us little to solve all others. -- Theodore Roosevelt
  • The conservation of our natural resources and their proper use constitute the fundamental problem which underlies almost every other problem of our national life. -- Theodore Roosevelt
  • The basic economic resource - the means of production - is no longer capital, nor natural resources, nor labor. It is and will be knowledge. -- Peter Drucker
  • Human resources are like natural resources; they're often buried deep. You have to go looking for them; they're not just lying around on the surface. -- Ken Robinson
  • The nation behaves well if it treats the natural resources as assets which it must turn over to the next generation increased; and not impaired in value. -- Theodore Roosevelt
  • And I believe that it becomes a troubled continent because there are those who must always cause confusion so that we do not keep these natural resources. -- Miriam Makeba
  • We as governors, whether we're Republican or Democrat, we really believe that we know what's best for our people. And in Arizona, and particularly we're very interested about natural resources. -- Jan Brewer
  • From protecting our natural resources to providing maritime security and national defense, the Coast Guard's duties are broad in scope, and the performance of those duties has never been more important. -- Russ Carnahan
  • I think what the Nobel committee is doing is going beyond war and looking at what humanity can do to prevent war. Sustainable management of our natural resources will promote peace. -- Wangari Maathai
  • Our livelihood is intimately tied to the food we eat, water we drink and places where we recreate. That's why we have to promote responsibility and conservation when it comes to our natural resources. -- Mark Udall
  • We can't leave people in abject poverty, so we need to raise the standard of living for 80% of the world's people, while bringing it down considerably for the 20% who are destroying our natural resources. -- Jane Goodall
  • "Human resources are like natural resources; they're often buried deep You have to go looking for them; they're not just lying around on the surface You have to create the circumstances where they show themselves" -- Ken Robinson
  • We assume that everything's becoming more efficient, and in an immediate sense that's true; our lives are better in many ways. But that improvement has been gained through a massively inefficient use of natural resources. -- Paul Hawken
  • I was born into Sudan's civil war, and before I could read or write, I was using an AK47 in the conflict between the Muslim north and Animist/Christian south over the land and natural resources. -- Ger Duany
  • I'm proud of having been one of the first to recognize that states and the federal government have a duty to protect our natural resources from the damaging effects of pollution that can accompany industrial development. -- Ronald Reagan
  • All of Africa's resources should be declared resources of the state and managed by the nation. Our experience in Bolivia shows that when you take control of natural resources for the people of the town and village, major world change is possible. -- Evo Morales
  • The immediate need for education and practice in using our natural resources of soil, forest, water, wildlife and areas of inspirational beauty to the best advantage of all, for this generation and others to come, is again apparent to every observant citizen. -- Walt Disney
  • With so much evidence of depleting natural resources, toxic waste, climate change, irreparable harm to our food chain and rapidly increasing instances of natural disasters, why do we keep perpetuating the problem? Why do we continue marching at the same alarming beat? -- Yehuda Berg
  • The linear 'Take - Make - Dispose' system, which depletes natural resources and generates waste, is deeply flawed and can be productively replaced by a restorative model in which waste does not exist as such but is only food for the next cycle -- Ellen MacArthur
  • I have a low tolerance for people who complain about things but never do anything to change them. This led me to conclude that the single largest pool of untapped natural resources in this world is human good intentions that are never translated into actions. -- Cindy Gallop
  • So, one of the things I was doing with the aliens in The Quiet Invasion was creating that advanced society which had ideas about morality and proper use of natural resources that were radically different from ours, as the Europeans were from the American Indians. -- Sarah Zettel
  • If we do not change our negative habits toward climate change, we can count on worldwide disruptions in food production, resulting in mass migration, refugee crises and increased conflict over scarce natural resources like water and farm land. This is a recipe for major security problems. -- Michael Franti
  • It seems the most logical thing in the world to believe that the natural resources of the Earth, upon which the race depends for food, clothing and shelter, should be owned collectively by the race instead of being the private property of a few social parasites. -- Ralph Chaplin
  • Here is your country. Cherish these natural wonders, cherish the natural resources, cherish the history and romance as a sacred heritage, for your children and your children's children. Do not let selfish men or greedy interests skin your country of its beauty, its riches or its romance. -- Theodore Roosevelt
  • The actions of my government are not bearable. They devastate our natural resources and deprive our people. The politicians speak piously while practicing greed and divisiveness; they care nothing for the nation. I want to do more than withdraw my support. I want to tar and feather them. -- Donella Meadows
  • In the end, I think the majority of Romanian society will understand that if we respect environmental protection standards, if we have benefits in taxes, royalties, jobs, we should do what all the modern countries in Europe and beyond are doing to take advantage of their natural resources. -- Victor Ponta
  • To waste, to destroy our natural resources, to skin and exhaust the land instead of using it so as to increase its usefulness, will result in undermining in the days of our children the very prosperity which we ought by right to hand down to them amplified and developed. -- Theodore Roosevelt
  • We've got to step up our conservation efforts before it's too late. We're not protecting our lands and natural resources. Take the Grand Canyon for example; I'm sure that at one time it was a beautiful piece of land, and just look at the way we've let it go. -- Pat Paulsen
  • Some global hazards are insidious. They stem from pressure on energy supplies, food, water and other natural resources. And they will be aggravated as the population rises to a projected nine billion by mid-century, and by the effects of climate change. An 'ecological shock' could irreversibly degrade our environment. -- Martin Rees
  • Conservation means development as much as it does protection. I recognize the right and duty of this generation to develop and use the natural resources of our land; but I do not recognize the right to waste them, or to rob, by wasteful use, the generations that come after us. -- Theodore Roosevelt
  • We need to revise our economic thinking to give full value to our natural resources. This revised economics will stabilize both the theory and the practice of free-market capitalism. It will provide business and public policy with a powerful new tool for economic development, profitability, and the promotion of the public good. -- Paul Hawken
  • We need to repent of our willing cooperation in our money-centered culture, which is depleting the natural resources that God designed for all humankind. He gave us a good earth. Let us serve him by helping to preserve it for our children. 'A good man leaves an inheritance for his children's children' (Proverbs 13:22 ). -- Paul Brand
  • The Internet was done so well that most people think of it as a natural resource like the Pacific Ocean, rather than something that was man-made. When was the last time a technology with a scale like that was so error-free? The Web, in comparison, is a joke. The Web was done by amateurs. -- Alan Kay
  • If we've learned any lessons during the past few decades, perhaps the most important is that preservation of our environment is not a partisan challenge; it's common sense. Our physical health, our social happiness, and our economic well-being will be sustained only by all of us working in partnership as thoughtful, effective stewards of our natural resources. -- Ronald Reagan
  • I would love it if we made more comparisons between current issues and issues of the past. Maybe we'd realize that sometimes 'current issues' and 'past issues' are one and the same. Our world's people still fight over natural resources, kill in the name of religion, occupy regions and give them up - just as we did 'so long ago.' -- Adora Svitak
  • For a Canadian, natural resources were a good fit. -- Peter Munk
  • What you people call your natural resources our people call our relatives -- Oren Lyons
  • In any race between human numbers and natural resources, time is against us. -- Aldous Huxley
  • Access to natural resources can become a question of survival for many states. -- Henry A. Kissinger
  • Human beings are going to be relying on natural resources for a long time. -- Gale Norton
  • Don't worry, as long as America still has natural resources, you guys are okay. -- Jon Stewart
  • Africa is wealthy in natural resources; the problem is they are not optimally utilized. -- Yoweri Museveni
  • Russia depends on natural resources way too much. Russian economy is not diversified enough -- Kenneth Rogoff
  • There's no country in the world that's more devastated from natural resources than Afghanistan. -- Jim Fowler
  • Our greatest natural resources are our hearts and minds, together with those of the people around us. -- Diane Dreher
  • The natural resources of the world do not belong to any person, organization, collective, or so-called nation. -- Bryant McGill
  • Inner resources are like natural resources; they both dry up eventually when the demands on them are heavy. -- Sheila Ballantyne
  • We can bring together rich natural resources, innovative research and development, smart investors, and risk-taking farming and manufacturing entrepreneurs. -- Anthony Pratt
  • Engineering is the professional and systematic application of science to the efficient utilization of natural resources to produce wealth. -- Theodore J. Hoover
  • Many rich people in China made their fortunes by damaging natural resources and building corrupt relations with the government. -- Chen Guangbiao
  • The people have a vital interest in the conservation of their natural resources; in the prevention of wasteful practices. -- Herbert Hoover
  • Humanity is living off its ecological credit card and can only do this by liquidating the planet's natural resources -- Mathis Wackernagel
  • The world can, in effect, get along without natural resources, so exhaustion is just an event, not a catastrophe. -- Robert Solow
  • My goal is to embrace the people, the 'natural resources' of Israel, and to build businesses with the creative Israelis. -- Ashton Kutcher
  • I do not intend that our natural resources shall be exploited by the few against the interests of the many. -- Theodore Roosevelt
  • Global warming threatens our health, our economy, our natural resources, and our children's future. It is clear we must act. -- Eliot Spitzer
  • The wealth of time we wastage, is worth much more than all the natural resources we have on the earth. -- Sunday Adelaja
  • From every conceivable angle-economic social, cultural, public health, national defense-conservation of natural resources is an objective on which all should agree. -- Hugh Hammond Bennett
  • Until every individual feels personally responsible for the careful planning and the preservation of natural resources, the inexorable destruction will go on. -- Eda LeShan
  • Why should the simple fact of your having more money entitle you to a greater share of the Earth's limited natural resources? -- Shekhar Kapur
  • The current model is global suicide. We need a revolution. Revolutionary thinking. Revolutionary action. Natural resources are becoming more and more scarce. -- Ban Ki-moon
  • Natural resources are so vast that no single individual or business is going to protect them; they don't have an incentive to. -- William Weld
  • Wealth of time is actually of more value than natural resources (petroleum, gold, diamond, gas etc.) and more valuable than human resources. -- Sunday Adelaja
  • Our language, one of our most precious natural resources, deserves at least as much protection as our woodlands, streams and whooping cranes. -- James Lipton
  • If left-wing extremism continues to flourish in parts which have natural resources of minerals, the climate for investment would certainly be affected. -- Anil Agarwal
  • Our nation's continued prosperity hinges on our ability to solve environmental problems and sustain the natural resources on which we all depend. -- John McCain
  • Canada, by others in the global family, is, for some reason, taken seriously. They have about 30 million people. They have some natural resources. -- Tucker Carlson
  • Russia's increased Arctic presence. The Arctic has vast natural resources and security value, and Russia is drastically increasing its footprint in the region. -- Don Young
  • If we want our nations to be truly great we must lay less emphasis on material wealth, natural resources or even human resources. -- Sunday Adelaja
  • Our nation is well equipped to make the transition. We have an abundance of natural resources like wind, natural gas, solar and geothermal. -- Julia Gillard
  • I want to see a connected and progressive future for Australia, where we harness our greatest natural resources: sun, wind, and brain power. -- Cate Blanchett
  • It is only through developing and maximizing all its natural resources that a sustainable future for Africa and its people can be secured. -- Nicky Oppenheimer
  • Children, be worried when they call you America's most valuable natural resource. Have you seen what they've done to the other natural resources? -- Utah Phillips
  • I believe in a sound, strong environmental policy that protects the health of our people and a wise stewardship of our nation's natural resources. -- Ronald Reagan
  • ...so mankind is now trapped by the failure of its energies and by the depletion of those natural resources that men have plundered wantonly. -- Russell Kirk
  • This is England," he explained. "Tell someone it's a procedure, and they'll believe you. The pointless procedure is one of our great natural resources. -- Maureen Johnson
  • Without the land, the rivers, the oceans, the forests, the sunshine, the minerals and thousands of natural resources we would have no economy whatsoever -- Satish Kumar
  • Think of the Nets infrastructure as a source of natural building resources. Linux is not growing on the trees - it is the trees. -- David "Doc" Searls
  • When I'm out hustling up new industries, I can offer Louisiana's many selling points. We have unmatched natural resources, a unique culture and fantastic workers. -- Kathleen Blanco
  • The natural resources we've depended on, if the places where they exist are not stable, our own livelihood and our health is put at risk. -- Jeff Corwin
  • Ethnic divisions can definitely be exacerbated by a lack of natural resources, but those tensions become violent when people manipulate them for their own political gain. -- Dinaw Mengestu
  • Including the value of natural resources and our social capital in national accounting is a vital step to achieve economic growth that is equitable and sustainable. -- Achim Steiner
  • A reduction in meat consumption is the most powerful single act that you can take to halt the destruction of our environment and preserve our natural resources. -- John Robbins
  • It is a stark and arresting fact that, since the middle of the 20th century, humankind has consumed more natural resources than in all previous human history -- Margaret Beckett
  • The term 'natural resources' confuses people. 'Natural resources' are not like a finite number of gifts under the Christmas tree. Nature is given, but resources are created. -- Alex Tabarrok
  • That is why it could happen anywhere, given the right ingredients: particular people in government, competing with others- or with each other- over natural and wealth-creating resources. -- Clea Koff
  • I think the environmental movement is the biggest people's movement in the world. Unfortunately, our governments and corporations haven't responded accordingly to protect our planet's natural resources. -- Leonardo DiCaprio
  • If managed well, urbanization can create enormous opportunities: allowing innovation and new ideas to emerge, saving energy, land and natural resources, managing climate and the risk of disasters. -- Sri Mulyani Indrawati
  • Purposeful giving is not as apt to deplete one's resources; it belongs to that natural order of giving that seems to renew itself even in the act of depletion. -- Anne Morrow Lindbergh
  • Russia has the largest reserves of natural resources, including iron and natural gas. The market will develop in the long term, and the VW Group will benefit from it. -- Martin Winterkorn
  • Chile needs Bolivian natural resources and Bolivia needs access to the sea. Under those circumstances, it must be possible to find a solution in the interest of both countries. -- Evo Morales
  • Extreme weather threatens our energy and electric grid, federal buildings, transportation infrastructure, access to natural resources, public health, our relationships across the globe, and many other aspects of life. -- Matt Cartwright
  • If the incentives are aligned right - towards better preservation and restoration of nature and natural resources - then you'll see a tremendous amount of activity in that direction. -- Ramez Naam
  • We live in a world filled with automobiles, highways of the mind, urban disasters, billions of people living on a tiny planet, sharing the diminishing natural resources of the earth. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
  • Devastation could arise insidiously, rather than suddenly, through unsustainable pressure on energy supplies, food, water and other natural resources. Indeed, these pressures are the prime 'threats without enemies' that confront us. -- Martin Rees
  • Economic dynamism can be combined with environmental and social responsibility. High financial returns can go hand in hand with respect for human rights, and the preservation of the planet's natural resources -- David Miliband
  • Some take advantage of natural resources to put the capital in the hands of the few, while some use these natural resources to benefit the majority, as we do in Bolivia. -- Evo Morales
  • Sustainable development: Meeting present needs without compromising the stock of natural resources remaining for future generations. In terms of buildings, it implies resource efficiency, minimum energy use, flexibility and long life -- Richard Rogers
  • In effect, a selfish and boundless thirst for power and material prosperity leads both to the misuse of available natural resources and to the exclusion of the weak and the disadvantaged. -- Pope Francis
  • Since our region is endowed with a lot of natural resources, including reasonable supplies of fresh water, we need and we can work together to ensure this area against these vicissitudes. -- Yoweri Museveni
  • Russia became a juicy chunk of the Third World, with immense reserves of cheap labor, a vast treasure of natural resources, and industrial assets to be sold off at giveaway prices. -- Michael Parenti
  • The man takes a body that is not his, claims it, sows his so-called seed, reaps a harvest - he colonizes a female body, robs it of its natural resources, controls it. -- Andrea Dworkin
  • Everybody can't have the life of a normal, average American person in India - they can't. So, it's about egalitarianism. It's about sharing things more equally. It's about access to natural resources. -- Arundhati Roy
  • The efficient use of energy is as much an issue for Saudi Arabia, with its huge natural resources, as it is for all countries. Increased efficiency makes sense environmentally, but also economically. -- Ali al-Naimi
  • Bolivia historically made and still makes a living from natural resources. Before it was tin, but also silver, gold, and other minerals were plundered by many foreign countries. Europe after the United States. -- Evo Morales
  • Egypt does not possess rich natural resources. Its agricultural area is relatively small - less than 10 per cent of the total land. Its growth relies on tourism, Suez Canal tariffs, and foreign investment. -- Ahmed Zewail
  • For conservation to succeed, we must embrace conservation models where people use their natural resources to create jobs, to grow economies, and to feed their people while protecting wildlife and Africa's iconic species. -- David Jeremiah Barron
  • What we're also looking at, if we do not transform our energy system, is more international war and conflict as countries fight over limited natural resources, including water and land to grow their crops. -- Bernie Sanders
  • The state of Alabama is serious about economic development, and we have shown that the Mobile region has a skilled workforce that is developing every day, strong infrastructure, and an abundance of natural resources. -- Bradley Byrne
  • The truth therefore is that great nations become great not because of their amount of wealth an Great nations become great thanks to their wealth of truth, honesty and other virtues the natural resources. -- Sunday Adelaja
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