Top 1200 Fossil Fuel Quotes & Sayings - Page 6

For decades, NRDC has created and supported policies that will ultimately end our reliance on fossil fuels.

Charles Darwin viewed the fossil record more as an embarrassment than as an aid to his theory.

We are totally schizophrenic. We are trying to reduce emissions, and we subsidize the consumption of fossil fuels.

Behind every morsel of bread, fruits, or meat is a large amount of transformed fossil fuels.

The fossil record contains no trace of these preliminary stages in the development of many-celled organisms.

I would say that, from an agricultural perspective, I have a little bit of concern, because some of the folks I don't know are particularly supportive of the renewable fuel industry and the renewable fuel standard, which is a big part of certainly Midwestern agriculture. I'm hopeful that, when we see his ultimate selection for ag secretary, that we will see someone who is a strong advocate for renewable fuels, and what that means to Midwestern producers. And, for that matter, now, all over the country, we're seeing more and more of the biofuels being produced from a variety of sources.

Practically every environmental problem we have can be traced to our addiction to fossil fuels, primarily oil.

When Americans are called on to innovate, that's what we do - whether it's making more fuel-efficient cars or more fuel-efficient appliances, or making sure that we are putting in place the kinds of equipment that prevents harm to the ozone layer and eliminates acid rain. At every one of these steps, there have been folks who have said it can't be done. There have been naysayers who said this is going to destroy jobs and destroy industry. And it doesn't happen because once we have a clear target to meet, we typically meet it. And we find the best ways to do it.

A word is no light matter. Words have with truth been called fossil poetry, each, that is, a symbol of a creative thought.

Climate change is due to the use of energy for industrial growth, which has been and is overwhelmingly based on fossil fuels.

There is more He-3 energy on the Moon than we have ever had in the form of fossil fuels on Earth. All we have to do is to go there and get it.

I believe in natural gas as a clean, cheap alternative to fossil fuels.

Advertising is the fuel of enterprise.

I eat to fuel my body - not to change it.

Rising carbon price is essential to 'decarbonize' the economy - to remove the nation towards the era beyond fossil fuels.

The extreme rarity of transitional forms in the fossil record persists as the trade secret of paleontology.

Failure is a fuel for excuses.

Ethanol's not an ideal fuel.

Pride is the fuel of human accomplishment.

Either you abandon fossil fuels, or you find a way to get that carbon back.

Here's what I think the truth is: We are all addicts of fossil fuels in a state of denial, about to face cold turkey.

You need the right fuel for the body.

The science of fossil shells is the first step towards the study of the earth.

Ending our reliance on fossil fuels was never going to be easy.

We shouldn't penalize those that depend on fossil fuels for energy and the jobs they provide.

This year - today - I am repenting of my dependence on fossil fuels.

What has become clear from the science is that we cannot burn all of the fossil fuels without creating a very different planet.

I will give up my belief in evolution if someone finds a fossil rabbit in the Precambrian.

We must rapidly wean ourselves off our dependence on coal and fossil fuels.

A creative economy is the fuel of magnificence.

As we burn fossil fuels, we release carbon dioxide, much of which is absorbed by the oceans.

All really worthwhile artists, creators, use the technology of their time, and anybody who doesn't becomes immediately a fossil.

Discipline is the fuel of achievement.

What we can be scientifically certain of is that our continued use of fossil fuels is pushing us to a point of no return

When I was a kid the highlight of my week would be doing a fossil hunt at the local quarry... that kind of thing.

I'm not interested in food. It's just fuel.

Nothing could do more to help the world's poor than to make fossil fuels cheap and plentiful.

Anyone who would tackle our current addiction to fossil fuels is going to have to maneuver around denial.

For people who currently have to burn fossil fuels to produce meager, polluting light, LED lighting is a game changer.

Even if we stop the growth, we'd still be adding a constant amount of fossil carbon to the atmosphere each year.

Passion is the very fuel of inspiration.

We know that dreams fuel innovation.

Pain is fuel for a fitter world

Society's dependence on fossil fuels is jeopardising social and economic progress.

As investments and as an energy source, fossil fuels have nowhere to go but down.

If Hank Williams Jr. wasn't such a pathetic, wheezing fossil, I'd have a talk with him.

It's as certain that as long as fossil fuels are the cheapest energy, we will just keep burning them.

Gasahol is socialism's fuel.

Fracking locks the U.K. into an industry that is based on fossil fuels long after our country needs to have moved to renewables.

You see, the Greenhouse Effect is a direct result of burning fossil or old carbon fuels.

The only countries that have successfully moved from fossil fuels to low-carbon power have done so with the help of nuclear energy.

If you were to ask me to define a photograph in a few words, I would say it is a fossil of light and time.

Unless we free ourselves from a dependence on these fossil fuels... we are condemning future generations to global catastrophe

Palaeontologists cannot live by uniformitarianism alone. This may be termed the Phenomenon of the Fallibility of the Fossil Record.

Our wisest long-term investment is not in the dirty polluting fossil fuels from the past, but in the clean energy of the future.

Just as a fossil is 'petrified time,' so is an ancient artifact or text.

Poetry is a fossil rock-print of a fin and a wing, with an illegible oath between.

We clearly have to reduce harmful energy emissions. Everyone acknowledges we simply can't switch off fossil fuels overnight.

Nuclear power and fossil fuels are the choices of the past. Renewable energy is the choice of the future that is here today.

To me, these days will never end. I am always there, in that room with her, or if not I, the imprint of myself - my fossil-love