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Plans to protect air and water, wilderness and wildlife are in fact plans to protect man. -- Stewart Udall
It isn't pollution that's harming the environment. It's the impurities in our air and water that are doing it. -- Dan Quayle
Our world isn't made of earth, air and water or even molecules and atoms; our world is made of language. -- Tom Robbins
Corporations are poisoning our air and water while at the same time lining the pockets of elected officials with political contributions. -- Gloria Reuben
Most people who use the Internet seem take its nature and characteristics for granted, like we take air and water for granted. -- Rebecca MacKinnon
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. -- Jeff Goodell
Meanwhile let us cast one shadow in air and water. -- Maxine Kumin
The spinning wheel is as much a necessity of Indian life as air and water. -- Mahatma Gandhi
By the time you are 88 years old, you "have consumed 300 tons of food, air and water." -- R. Buckminster Fuller
Environmental laws were not passed to protect our air and water, they were passed to get votes. -- Frank Zappa
Environmentali sm isn't a spectator sport. You actually have to stand up and demand that we be vigilant in protecting our air and water. -- Lisa P. Jackson
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? -- Eloise Lownsbery
In almost every instance, air and water quality goals were met more cheaply and quickly when we taxed pollution than when we tried to regulate it directly. -- Bob Frank
Passion is the breath we take, the water we drink to sustain ourselves. Without air and water we perish; without passion an artist will wither and blow away. -- Jack White
The finest workers in stone are not copper or steel tools, but the gentle touches of air and water working at their leisure with a liberal allowance of time. -- Henry David Thoreau
I reflect back 35 years ago, and look how far we have come in America with our environmental policy to improve the conditions of our air and water, and we have had some real successes. -- Jay Inslee
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... -- Ronald Reagan
Our goal is not just an environment of clean air and water and scenic beauty. The objective is an environment of decency, quality and mutual respect for all other human beings and all other living creatures. -- Gaylord Nelson
Those concerns of a national character-such as air and water pollution that do not respect state boundaries, or the national transportation system, or efforts to safeguard your civil liberties-must, of course, be handled on the national level. -- Ronald Reagan
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. -- Fred Thompson
If we are serious about moving toward energy independence in a cost-effective way, we should invest in solar energy. If we are serious about cutting air and water pollution and reducing greenhouse gas emissions, we should invest in solar energy. -- Bernie Sanders
By eating meat we share the responsibility of climate change, the destruction of our forests, and the poisoning of our air and water. The simple act of becoming a vegetarian will make a difference in the health of our planet. -- Nhat Hanh
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. -- Alex Steffen
And there, next to me, as the east wind blows in early fall, a season open to great migrations, are those lives, threading the air and waters of the sea, that come out of an incomparable darkness, which is also my own. -- John Hay
One of the pillars of backward thinking in America is the idea that you can have jobs or you can have clean air and water, but you can't have both. That myth has been busted a thousand times, but still it lives on. -- Jeff Goodell
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. -- Alice Walker
Commercial institutions, proud of their achievements, do not see that healthy living systems - clean air and water, healthy soil, stable climates - are integral to a functioning economy. As our living systems deteriorate, traditional forecasting and business economics become the equivalent of house rules on a sinking cruise ship. -- Paul Hawken
Water, air, and cleanness are the chief articles in my pharmacy. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
It's kind of a shock to your skin, changing climates. It's new water, and new air quality. -- Shay Mitchell
Water and air, the two essential fluids on which all life depends, have become global garbage cans. -- Jacques Yves Cousteau
Our military should be trained and structured around missions, not the elements of air, water, and land. -- Louis V. Gerstner, Jr.
Sadly, in the name of progress, we have polluted the air, water, soil and the food we eat. -- Radhanath Swami
The need for connection and community is primal, as fundamental as the need for air, water, and food. -- Dean Ornish
I can't imagine anything more important than air, water, soil, energy and biodiversity. These are the things that keep us alive. -- David Suzuki
If a fish is the movement of water embodied, given shape, then cat is a diagram and pattern of subtle air. -- Doris Lessing
The need for love and intimacy is a fundamental human need, as primal as the need for food, water, and air. -- Dean Ornish
My first introduction to New Orleans was from the air, flying high over the city with a view of the land - and water - below. -- Rachel Sklar
The ability to breathe the air and drink the water will be what the wars will be about from here on in. And it's coming with alarming rapidity. -- William Shatner
Take a course in good water and air; and in the eternal youth of Nature you may renew your own. Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you. -- John Muir
For the record, I am sticking with my claim that the simultaneous degradation of air quality, water quality, water supply, food safety, soil quality, and other environment-related variables is the main challenge to China's continued development. -- James Fallows
Don't drink the water and don't breathe the air! -- Tom Lehrer
There are five elements: earth, air, fire, water and garlic. -- Louis Diat
The only kind of water that should fly through the air is rain. -- Kamahl
Fish don't know much about water, and people didn't know much about air. -- Kary Mullis
I believe in animal rights, human rights, land rights, water rights, air rights. -- Rod Coronado
That odd infallible sliding-like-crystal air on water that means day's left dawn for morning. -- H.D.
What a woman tells her lover in desireshould be written out on air & running water. -- Catullus
Trees will improve property values, take pollutants out of the air, help with water runoff. -- Michael Bloomberg
Darkness, air, water, and sky will come together... and shake the forest to its roots. -- Erin Hunter
Endless ocean, blue water, dreamy sky, tranquil beach, love in the air, mind fly high. -- Debasish Mridha
What women say to lovers, you'll agree, One writes on running water or on air. -- Catullus
A sound precipitates air, then fire, then water and earth- and that's how the world becomes. -- Joseph Campbell
This land, this water, this air, this planet - this is our legacy to our young. -- Paul Tsongas
I think every single American believes they have a right to clean air and clean water. -- Frances Beinecke
Amazing how hope lives. Without air or water, with hardly anything at all to nurture it. -- Lauren Oliver
The water is clearer than the air, and the air is the air that angels breathe. -- Mark Twain
In an underdeveloped country don't drink the water. In a developed country don't breathe the air. -- Jonathan Raban
Revolutionary consciousness is to be found among the most ruthlessly exploited masses: animals, trees, water, air, grasses -- Gary Snyder
Even a really bad creator would at least have started with Earth, Air, Fire, Water and Surprise. -- Terry Pratchett
Music is a necessity. After food, air, water and warmth, music is the next necessity of life. -- Keith Richards
Clean air, clean water, open spaces - these should once again be the birthright of every American. -- Richard M. Nixon
Americans deserve both clean air and clean water and never one at the expense of the other. -- Carol Browner
Water and air, the two essential fluids on which all life depends, have become global garbage cans. -- Jacques Yves Cousteau
Our military should be trained and structured around missions, not the elements of air, water, and land. -- Louis V. Gerstner, Jr.
What a woman says to an eager lover, write it on running water, write it on air. -- Catullus
Plant a new Truffula. Treat it with care. Give it clean water. And feed it fresh air. -- Dr. Seuss
... where I walked, the frost shaped itself to my will, dancing in the air like music over water. -- Eugie Foster
But human borders mean nothing to air, water, windblown soil or seeds or migrating fish, birds or mammals. -- David Suzuki
Can one drown in one's element... If fish can drown in water, can human beings suffocate in air? -- Salman Rushdie
The true miracle is not walking on water or walking in air, but simply walking on this earth. -- Nhat Hanh
You will find many a creature by earth, air, and water, that is more beautiful than a woman. -- Elizabeth Montagu
The gift of water, air, soap, and time allows us to heal and relieve our psyche and soul. -- Byllye Avery
To use color well is as difficult as for a fish to pass from water to air or earth. -- Andre Lhote
After all, this is a world of rock and water and air. It is elemental. It is not ours. -- Janet Kauffman
the islands of Italy combine all the elements - fire, water, earth, and air - and that is irresistible. -- Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
Man cannot long survive without air, water, and sleep. Next in importance comes food. And close on its heels, solitude. -- Thomas Szasz
Pure air, good water, sunshine, the beautiful surroundings of nature...these are God's means for restoring the sick to health. -- Ellen G. White
A bird with a broken wing was beating the air above, reeling, fluttering, circling disabled, down, down to the water -- Kate Chopin
Our air, water, soil, forests, oceans, rivers, lakes, scenic beauty, wildlife habitat, minerals, that is the wealth of the country. -- Gaylord Nelson
Pure air, sunlight, abstemiousness, rest, exercise, proper diet, the use of water, trust in Divine power-these are the true remedies. -- Ellen G. White
I believe in beauty. I believe in stones and water, air and soil, people and their future and their fate. -- Ansel Adams
My suit blew up into a parachute. All this water rushed in, there's air, water in there. I was freaking out. -- Ryan Lochte
If we do not own the freshness of the air and the sparkle of the water, how can you buy them? -- Chief Seattle
Bink knew the dolphin only from old pictures; it was a kind of magic fish that breathed air instead of water. -- Piers Anthony
Everything was simple, physical, painful, exalting. The world consisted of the four elements - land and water, firepower and distancing air. -- Susan Sontag
Gold, on the contrary, though of little use compared with air or water, will exchange for a great quantity of other goods. -- David Ricardo
The body of the earth is of the nature of a fish... because it draws water as its breath instead of air. -- Leonardo da Vinci
There are systems called zero discharge emission systems that would prevent any pollution from making it into the water or the air. -- Charles Duhigg
When you see a guy flying into the air on fire, that's not me, obviously. I do all the water tricks, though. -- Robert Englund
Fire wants to burn Water wants to flow Air wants to rise Earth wants to bindChaos wants to devourCal wants to live -- Cassandra Clare
Up from the bronze, I saw Water without a flaw Rush to its rest in air Reach to its rest, and fall. -- Louise Bogan
How we grow food has enormous effects on the environment - climate change as well as pollution of air, water, and soil. -- Marion Nestle
We do not own the freshness of the air or the sparkle of the water. How can you buy them from us? -- Chief Seattle
Man needs air, man needs water, man needs food and man needs adventure also! Adventure is a medicine for the infinite boredom. -- Mehmet Murat ildan
To survive, humans need food, water, and air. Yet biodiversity, the Earth's bodies of water, and the planet's atmosphere are all under threat. -- Graciela Chichilnisky
One who neglects or disregards the existence of earth, air, fire, water and vegetation disregards his own existence which is entwined with them. -- Mahavira
I want the cleanest water, the freshest air and wildlife in abundance... but most of all I want a future for our children. -- Steve Irwin
The world is changing: I feel it in the water, I feel it in the earth, and I smell it in the air. -- J. R. R. Tolkien
The angling fever is a very real disease and can only be cured by the application of cold water and fresh, untainted air. -- Theodore Gordon
A cylinder of air reaching to the top of the atmosphere is of equal weight with a cylinder of water about 33 feet high. -- Isaac Newton
Blessed be the Lord for the beauty of summer and spring, for the air, the water, the verdure, and the song of birds. -- Carl Linnaeus
I am convinced that the air we normally breathe is a kind of water, and men and women are a species of fish. -- D. H. Lawrence
We all drink from one water We all breathe from one air We rise from one ocean And we live under one sky -- Anwar Fazal
One of the major problems is what we do to the soil, the air, the water and everything, we take in our food. -- Charlotte Gerson
Life, according to Zen, ought to be lived as a bird flies through the air, or as a fish swims in the water. -- D.T. Suzuki
The sweet air coming into your house on a fine day, from water etched with waves as formal as the scales on a fish. -- Marianne Moore
How do we want our air? Pure. How do we want our water? Pure. How do we want sex on our wedding night? Pure. -- Molly Kelly
How much does one imagine, how much observe? One can no more separate those functions than divide light from air, or wetness from water. -- Elspeth Huxley
Today, our air, food, water-all are polluted. If we do not stop exploiting nature for our temporary selfish gains, we will destroy the world. -- Mata Amritanandamayi
If we can't keep our Palestinian neighbors and Muslim neighbors alive with good water and fresh air, we'll never get them to the peace table. -- Mandy Patinkin
If your homeland were invaded by aliens who cut down the forests, poisoned the water and air and contaminated the food supply, would you resist? -- Derrick Jensen
We need Joy as we need air. We need Love as we need water. We need each other as we need the earth we share. -- Maya Angelou
...two devils rose from the water, and flew off through the air, crying, 'Oh, oh, oh!' and turning one over another, in sportive mockery... -- Martin Luther
Anaximander used to assert that the primary cause of all things was the Infinite,-not defining exactly whether he meant air or water or anything else. -- Diogenes Laertius
He couldn't stop smelling the air in great, deep, loud sniffs. It was so delicious. It smelled of water, and mud, and maple trees, and autumn. -- Elizabeth Enright
It was one of those humid days when the atmosphere gets confused. Sitting on the porch, you could feel it: the air wishing it was water. -- Jeffrey Eugenides
Our goal is a delightfully diverse, safe, healthy, and just world, with clean air, water, soil and power â?? economically, equitably, ecologically and elegantly enjoyed. -- William McDonough
You draw the mystical kundalini from the earth. Earth is an element. Fire, air, earth, water, and ether - the mystical kundalini comes through them all. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
The people who are running this planet are insane - they are literally destroying it. I don't know where they think they're gonna drink water, breathe air. -- Assata Shakur
Should a small business or a large business be able to pollute the water or the air or the food? No, I hope you don't believe that. -- Bernie Sanders

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