Dennis Weaver Quotes

Nobody yet knows how to improve working conditions and environmental quality without imposing heavy costs somewhere.

Everyone realizes that we have to clean up the environment, but no one likes the cost.

It angers me when sustainability gets used as a buzz word. For 90 percent of the world, sustainability is a matter of survival.

We can have technology, prosperity, nice homes and cars, but at the same time we must be conscious of what we are dumping into the water, the air and our food.

Conservation has been in eclipse in this country ever since Theodore Roosevelt’s day. It had barely gotten off the ground when Uncle Joe Cannon, the Speaker of the House in those days, issued his ultimatum: “Not 1 cent for scenery.” Well, today we are repealing Cannon’s law. We are declaring a new doctrine of conservation.

There are fewer chemical pollutants in the air. Our drinking water is safer. Our food standards have been raised. We've cleaned up more toxic waste sites in three years than the previous administrations did in twelve. The environment is cleaner, and we have fought off the most vigorous assault on environmental protection since we began to protect the environment in 1970. We are moving in the right direction to the 21st century.

If we want to address global warming, along with the other environmental problems associated with our continued rush to burn our precious fossil fuels as quickly as possible, we must learn to use our resources more wisely, kick our addiction, and quickly start turning to sources of energy that have fewer negative impacts.

I firmly believe that we can have a healthy environment and a sustainable timber industry.

We need to promote development that does not destroy our environment.

Why has it seemed that the only way to protect the environment is with heavy-handed government regulation?

If it can be profitable to be green, that's just smart business.

The only way forward, if we are going to improve the quality of the environment, is to get everybody involved.

We don't have to sacrifice a strong economy for a healthy environment.

How can you save the rain forests, the planet's wildlife, without funds?

If you develop in the old fashioned way there are enormous costs (to the environment)….but we have to demonstrate it, not just tell people.

Pollution is nothing but resources we're not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we've been ignorant of their value.

… work [jobs] and the environment should not be played off against each other.

We're saying environmental stewardship and jobs in the economy. We can do both together.

At every stage of my life, I've always wanted to do good for Earth.

Building a 'Green Gabon' has always been a central pillar of my government, and in 2014, I introduced a new legal framework that puts environmental protection and sustainable development firmly at the heart of our future economic growth.

The economy of the future has been aligned with the climate agenda. Even the competitiveness of companies will depend on how resource efficient they are.

We face a simple choice. Either we go back to the days when everything was disposable and landfill dumps consumed our countryside at an increasing pace, or we recognise that we have limited resources and need to use them wisely and sustainably.

We are now heading down a centuries-long path toward increasing the productivity of our natural capital - the resource systems upon which we depend to live - instead of our human capital.

Try to leave the Earth a better place than when you arrived.

I've always been a strong supporter of environmental protection and initiatives in that area. But I'm willing to set priorities. If we have to make reductions in one place, we'll have to-in order to increase another place, I'm willing to do that.