Halle Berry Quotes

Water efficiency, recycling, and other local supplies will help California flourish in a drier future.

Having lived in the arid deserts of Southern California since the 1970s, my interest in water conservation is a very personal concern. Water! The source of life! Some people are squandering the world's most precious resource while others have too little clean water to drink.

One of the great things about Lanai is that the weather is always fabulous. Always 82 degrees and sunny. The problem is that, like California now, Lanai needs more water.

As someone who has grown up living in Southern California, I know all too well about the costs and scarcities of water.

Three little words achingly familiar on a Western farmer's tongue, rule life in the dust bowl of the continent - if it rains.

Pray for rain!

The threat is desertification. My response is a sandstone wall made from solidified sand.

We have over 30 dams in Puerto Rico, and I think only one works. We're here in the rain forest, and we have plenty of water. It's insane.

If you have forest, if you have green forest, the water table goes up. What happens with deforestation is the water level goes down and we all know how much importance drinking water has.

The good Lord put oil and gas there for us to find and use, and we'd better do it.

What's happening on the Colorado River is happening all over the world. The water is overused, overdammed, and it's polluted in some places.

As a conservative, I maintain a healthy skepticism of the theory of man-made global warming. I also believe that more people enjoying the fruits of modernity and economic development is a good thing - as long as those people arrived legally and obey the law.

The sun is always shining. We have oxygen, trees, birds. There's so much good things on Earth, still. We haven't destroyed everything.

California has always led the way on environmental protection and always reaped the benefits, pioneering everything from catalytic convertors on cars to stationary source reduction.

If you are energy-efficient and water-wise at home, then take all your good habits abroad with you.

Except on their southern borders the great northern forests are not good as a permanent home for man.

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.

I must explore desert ground and see what can grow. But there are limits. I know in my heart what I would never do.

We need the humbleness and clarity to see that our food, while benefitting from technological advances, has benefitted even more from free ecological resources: Cheap energy, lots of water everywhere, and a stable climate.

The problem in Afghanistan is really not so much land as water. It's a dry country with ample amounts of water running through it, but not to good enough effect.

There are a tremendous amount of environmental issues that are on the table.

I probably wouldn't be a good spokesman for an electric car, because I'll still get on a private jet, and one flight on a private jet undoes all my electric-car good deeds.

I think people really understand that clean air and clean water and not having factories dumping their emissions into the atmosphere and into the rivers and into the sea has been a very good thing for America. EPA stands watch for very important principles that go all the way back to Teddy Roosevelt.

We can make a concerted effort to stop poisoning the planet: that would be a good way of appeasing the gods.

Prince Charles is definitely my hero; he uses his position to do only good in this world.