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255 Environmentalist Quotes

Every time you dive, you hope you'll see something new - some new species. Sometimes the ocean gives you a gift, sometimes it doesn't.

Dive Every Every Time Gift
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I'm hopeful that we'll be able to study the ocean before we destroy it.
Able Before Destroy Hopeful
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People call me a perfectionist, but I'm not. I'm a rightist. I do something until it's right, and then I move on to the next thing.

Call Me Move Move On
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I'm a storyteller; that's what exploration really is all about. Going to places where others haven't been and returning to tell a story they haven't heard before.

About Been Before Exploration
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I think people had somehow gotten the sense that we have explored everything, when that isn't the case. We so know so little about the ocean, and so much of it is being destroyed.

About Being Case Destroyed
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People think that what I see diving must drive what I put into films, but that isn't really the case. When I am making a Hollywood production, I am telling a different kind of story. Of course, if I see something interesting that works, we will look at it, but they are different things.

Am Case Course Different
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The snake kills by squeezing very slowly. This is how the civilized world slowly, slowly pushes into the forest and takes away the world that used to be.

Away Civilized Civilized World Forest
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Any direct experience that I have with indigenous peoples and their plights may feed into the nature of the story I choose to tell. In fact, it almost certainly will.

Almost Any Certainly Choose
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Inspiration can hit you in the head at any time in any context. It could happen in a conversation. Talking to someone at a party, you can get an idea. But you've got to remember those inspirations.

Any Context Conversation Could
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I feed on other people's creativity, photographers, artists of every kind. Sometimes a feeling that you get listening to a song can be so powerful. I've wanted to write whole scripts around what I felt just listening to a piece of music. I think music is important, and surrounding your visual field with stimulating things.

Around Artists Creativity Every
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Writing a screenplay, for me, is like juggling. It's like, how many balls can you get in the air at once? All those ideas have to float out there to a certain point, and then they'll crystallize into a pattern.

Air Balls Certain Certain Point
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To convince people to back your idea, you've got to sell it to yourself and know when it's the moment. Sometimes that means waiting. It's like surfing. You don't create energy, you just harvest energy already out there.

Back Convince Create Energy
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Storytelling is storytelling. You still play by the same narrative rules. The technology is completely different. I don't use one piece of technology that I used when I started directing.

Different Directing Narrative Piece
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I don't use film cameras. I don't do visual effects the same way. We don't use miniature models; it's all CG now, creating worlds in CG. It's a completely different toolset. But the rules of storytelling are the same.

Cameras Creating Different Effects
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I believe 3D is inevitable because it's about aligning our entertainment systems to our sensory system. We all have two eyes; we all see the world in 3D. And it's natural for us to want our entertainment in 3D as well. It's just getting the technology - it's really more the business model than the technology piece. We've solved the technology.

About Because Believe Business
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The pursuit of eternity is no longer the prerogative of the gods - it is the business of us all, here and now.

The pursuit Eternity Prerogative The gods
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We people of the Earth exist because our potential was there in the Big Bang, 13.7 billion years ago, as the universe exploded into being.

We people Earth exist Our potential Years ago
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There's a presumption that somehow you calculate beforehand whether something is going to be good politically or not. I simply don't.

Presumption Calculate beforehand Good politically
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I am aware that one should always make room for renewal in politics. A democracy is the healthier for the turnover of the depth of talent there is in its community.

Make room Politics Democracy Healthier
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The overarching factor to me is if we can't be kind to each other, we won't be kind to the planet.
Overarching factor Kind Each other Planet
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Real life security and contentment come not from putting a gun in the cupboard, but from taking a role in the world's future.

Real life Contentment Gun Cupboard
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The reality is that if we in this rich, lucky quarter of the planet cannot make a stand for the 30 million other species we share this planet with, let alone our own species, then who can?

The reality Rich Lucky quarter Planet
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The Greens will continue to champion a fairer society rather than simply the economy and to champion the parliament rather than simply the stock exchange

Green Will continue Champion Society
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The future will either be green or not at all.
Future Be green
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Behind every successful man there's a lot of unsuccessful years.

Behind every Successful man Years
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I am glad I will not be young in a future without wilderness.

Glad Be young Future Without wilderness
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There are some who can live without wild things and some who cannot.

Are some Can live Wild things Cannot
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Ethical behavior is doing the right thing when no one else is watching- even when doing the wrong thing is legal.

Ethical behavior Right thing Watching Wrong thing
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We abuse land because we see it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect.
Abuse land Commodity Belonging to We see
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Only the mountain has lived long enough to listen objectively to the howl of the wolf.

The mountain Lived Long enough Listen objectively
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We shall never achieve harmony with the land, anymore than we shall achieve absolute justice or liberty for people. In these higher aspirations the important thing is not to achieve but to strive.

Shall never Achieve harmony Land Absolute justice
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The last word in ignorance is the man who says of an animal or plant: 'What good is it?

Last word Ignorance The man Who says
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All conservation of wildness is self-defeating, for to cherish we must see and fondle, and when enough have seen and fondled, there is no wilderness left to cherish.

All conservation Wilderness Self defeating To cherish
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Is education possibly a process of trading awareness for things of lesser worth?

Is education A process Trading awareness Things
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We all strive for safety, prosperity, comfort, long life, and dullness.

All strive For safety Prosperity Comfort
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One of the penalties of an ecological education is that one lives alone in a world of wounds.

The penalties Ecological education One lives World
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Education, I fear, is learning to see one thing by going blind to another.

Education Fear Is learning To see
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That land is a community is the basic concept of ecology, but that land is to be loved and respected is an extension of ethics.

Land Community Basic concept Ecology
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The good life of any river may depend on the perception of its music; and the preservation of some music to perceive.

Good life Any river Perception Its music
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Harmony with land is like harmony with a friend; you cannot cherish his right hand and chop off his left. That is to say, you cannot love game and hate predators... The land is one organism.

Harmony With land A friend Cherish
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A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, the stability, and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise.

A thing Right Preserve The integrity
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Tell me of what plant-birthday a man takes notice, and I shall tell you a good deal about his vocation, his hobbies, his hay fever, and the general level of his ecological education.

Tell me Plat birthday Man Takes notice
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Examine each question in terms of what is ethically and aesthetically right, as well as what is economically expedient.

Examine Each question Ethically Aesthetically right
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the most fun lies in seeing and studying the unknown.

Most fun Lies Seeing Studying
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never had there been so rare a day, or so rich a solitude top spend it in.
Never had So rare A day So rich
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Acts of creation are ordinarily reserved for gods and poets, but humbler folk may circumvent this restriction if they know how.

Acts Creation Ordinarily reserved Gods
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Within this culture wealth is measured by one's ability to consume and destroy.

Culture Wealth Consume Destroy
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Writing is really very easy. Tap a vein and bleed onto the page. Everything else is just technical.

Writing Easy Page Technical
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Love does not imply pacifism.

Love Imply Pacifism
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Like the layers of an onion, under the first lie is another, and under that another, and they all make you cry.

Like Under Lie Cry
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