Quotes about Climate
And yet there is not in France, with its rich variety of soil and climate, a blade, a leaf, a root, a sprig, a peppercorn, which will grow to maturity under conditions more certain than those that have produced this horror. Crush
— Charles Dickens
It has been said that in human life there are moments worth ages... in the climate of England there are, for the lover of Nature, days which are worth whole months, — I might say — even years.
— William Wordsworth
I play fictitious characters often solving fictitious problems. I believe mankind has looked at climate change in the same way, as if it were a fiction.
— Leonardo DiCaprio
The General was right. No one dies of hunger here - you reach out your hand and pluck a mango. That's why there is no progress. Cold countries have more advanced civilizations because the climate forces people to work.
— Isabel Allende
This is the moment we must come together to save this planet. Let us resolve that we will not leave our children a world where the oceans rise and famine spreads and terrible storms devastate our lands.
— Barack Obama
If I aspired to lead the free world, I decided, I'd have to make climate change a priority of my campaign and my presidency.
— Barack Obama
Finally Cub said, They don't call it global weirding. I know. But I think that's actually the idea. Cub shook his head. Weather is the Lord's business.
— Barbara Kingsolver
Every kind of weather is intensified by warming.
— Barbara Kingsolver
Climate change is a terrible problem, and it absolutely needs to be solved. It deserves to be a huge priority.
— Bill Gates
Making things (cement, steel, plastic) 31% Plugging in (electricity) 27% Growing things (plants, animals) 19% Getting around (planes, trucks, cargo ships) 16% Keeping warm and cool (heating, cooling, refrigeration) 7%
— Bill Gates
It is said that in some countries trees will grow, but will bear no fruit because there is no winter there.
— John Bunyan
If we are ever going to have adequate funding for health care and other major line items in our budget, however, we have to put an end to waste and fraud throughout the government, and we must create a friendly climate for economic growth.
— Ben Carson