At Virgin, we have always backed the power of the entrepreneur and inventor to find solutions to tricky problems. Why should climate change and the battle against carbon be any different?
Richard BransonThe future is green energy, sustainability, renewable energy.
Arnold SchwarzeneggerYou’re never going to get the amount of CO2 emitted to go down unless you deal with the one magic metric, which is CO2 per kilowatt-hour.
Bill GatesI resigned from the Marine Corps and flying in 1974, even though I loved them both. I quit because I no longer wanted to fight for peace. Instead, I believe we can build a more sustainable peace by working for prosperity.
Robert KiyosakiBefore anything else, preparation is the key to success.
Alexander Graham BellWhy should man’s first flight to the moon be a matter of national competition? Why should the United States and the Soviet Union, in preparing for such expeditions, become involved in immense duplications of research, construction and expenditure?
John F. KennedyIn preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.
Dwight D. EisenhowerMy publication record puts me in the top 0.5 percent of psychologists.
Jordan PetersonCosmology is a rapidly advancing field.
Stephen HawkingThe effects of climate change are real and must be acted on.
Joe BidenI have a particular relationship with Vinod Khosla because he’s got a lot of very interesting science-based energy startups.
Bill GatesThe majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.
Napoleon HillWhen I was a little girl you used to learn to sew all the holes in things, darning socks, but nobody mends things anymore.
Vivienne WestwoodI talk to fashion designers and say I want some money to save the rainforest, and they say, ‚Oh, I agree with you completely Vivienne. Yes, climate change, it’s definitely happening,‘ but they don’t feel that they can do anything about it; they don’t even think ‚Well let’s stop it!‘
Vivienne WestwoodBy failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.
Benjamin FranklinMen often oppose a thing merely because they have had no agency in planning it, or because it may have been planned by those whom they dislike.
Alexander HamiltonEnthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes shine to the stars. Enthusiasm is the sparkle in your eyes, the swing in your gait. The grip of your hand, the irresistible surge of will and energy to execute your ideas.
Henry FordCanada is rich in hydrocarbons and other natural resources… India’s requirements and Canada’s surplus are a perfect match.
Narendra ModiDo not reveal what you have thought upon doing, but by wise council keep it secret being determined to carry it into execution.
ChanakyaWhere the stakes are the highest, in the war on terror, we cannot possibly succeed without extraordinary international cooperation. Effective international police actions require the highest degree of intelligence sharing, planning and collaborative enforcement.
Barack ObamaNothing is being done to stop the climate and ecological emergency from happening and to secure the future wellbeing for future generations.
Greta ThunbergThe threat to the planet is us. It’s actually not a threat to the planet – it’s a threat to us.
Margaret AtwoodI remember when I was younger, and in school, our teachers showed us films of plastic in the ocean, starving polar bears and so on. I cried through all the movies. My classmates were concerned when they watched the film, but when it stopped, they started thinking about other things. I couldn’t do that. Those pictures were stuck in my head.
Greta ThunbergA diplomatic solution that puts significant and verifiable constraints on Iran’s nuclear program represents the best and most sustainable chance to ensure that America, Israel, the entire Middle East will never be menaced by a nuclear-armed Iran.
Joe BidenWhen the well is dry, they know the worth of water.
Benjamin FranklinI’m frugal. I’m not a very acquisitive woman. I never waste food. If you prepare your own food, you engage with the world, it tastes alive. It tastes good.
Vivienne WestwoodMy business is to prevent the future.
Ray BradburyThe U.S. is just in a class by itself in military expenses. It basically matches the rest of the world, and it’s far more advanced.
Noam ChomskyIf you look at the history of our country over the last 100 years, there have been periods where science and research have been celebrated. They were really kind of held up as heroes in society, which encouraged a generation of people to go into these fields.
Mark ZuckerbergThere’s been some research in cognitive science, I’m told, that discloses that there have always been perhaps 10 to 15 percent of people who are, as Pascal puts it, so made that they cannot believe. To us, when people talk about faith, it’s white noise.
Christopher HitchensEnergy begets energy.
Dolly PartonSomeday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.
Pierre Teilhard de ChardinElectricity is really just organized lightning.
George CarlinThere is nothing wrong with America that faith, love of freedom, intelligence, and energy of her citizens cannot cure.
Dwight D. EisenhowerThe universal utilization of water power and its long-distance transmission will supply every household with cheap power and will dispense with the necessity of burning fuel. The struggle for existence being lessened, there should be development along ideal rather than material lines.
Nikola TeslaWe are at a time in history where everyone with any insight of the climate crisis that threatens our civilisation – and the entire biosphere – must speak out in clear language, no matter how uncomfortable and unprofitable that may be.
Greta ThunbergThe redwood is the glory of the Coast Range. It extends along the western slope, in a nearly continuous belt about ten miles wide, from beyond the Oregon boundary to the south of Santa Cruz, a distance of nearly four hundred miles, and in massive, sustained grandeur and closeness of growth surpasses all the other timber woods of the world.
John MuirToday, we’re very dependent on cheap energy. We just take it for granted – all the things you have in the house, the way industry works.
Bill GatesWhen I was researching my book ‚The 33 Strategies of War‘, I studied Napoleon extensively and I found myself wanting to ask Napoleon questions about things he did, and if was I interpreting his actions correctly.
Robert GreeneWe’re always, by the way, in fundamental physics, always trying to investigate those things in which we don’t understand the conclusions. After we’ve checked them enough, we’re okay.
Richard P. FeynmanI’m really bad with answering questions. Usually, I don’t even answer them. I try to find inspiration inside of the question. I think, and I jump from one beam of inspiration or energy to the next, as opposed to explaining the energy.
Kanye WestIn the case of the environment, there’s no one to bail it out.
Noam ChomskyMore businesses should be following Apple’s stance in encouraging more investment in sustainability.
Richard BransonWar should be the only study of a prince. He should consider peace only as a breathing-time, which gives him leisure to contrive, and furnishes as ability to execute, military plans.
Niccolo MachiavelliThe world, we are told, was made especially for man – a presumption not supported by all the facts. A numerous class of men are painfully astonished whenever they find anything, living or dead, in all God’s universe, which they cannot eat or render in some way what they call useful to themselves.
John MuirWhat most people know but don’t realize they know is that the world is almost entirely solar-powered already. If the sun wasn’t there, we’d be a frozen ice ball at three degrees Kelvin, and the sun powers the entire system of precipitation. The whole ecosystem is solar-powered.
Elon MuskI always knew that St. Jude was an amazing organization but meeting the kids and seeing how the hospital works first hand was truly beautiful. It doesn’t feel like a regular hospital all dreary and sad. It’s a colorful, beautiful, comfortable, fun place to live and the energy is wonderful.
Ariana GrandeThe shift to a cleaner energy economy wont happen overnight, and it will require tough choices along the way. But the debate is settled. Climate change is a fact.
Barack ObamaWhat is the use of a house if you haven’t got a tolerable planet to put it on?
Henry David ThoreauYou can’t generalise about an entire country, but I like the energy of British men.
Taylor SwiftIt’s been proven by quite a few studies that plants are good for our psychological development. If you green an area, the rate of crime goes down. Torture victims begin to recover when they spend time outside in a garden with flowers. So we need them, in some deep psychological sense, which I don’t suppose anybody really understands yet.
Jane GoodallIt’s not as though we can keep burning coal in our power plants. Coal is a finite resource, too. We must find alternatives, and it’s a better idea to find alternatives sooner then wait until we run out of coal, and in the meantime, put God knows how many trillions of tons of CO2 that used to be buried underground into the atmosphere.
Elon MuskResearch shows that there is only half as much variation in student achievement between schools as there is among classrooms in the same school. If you want your child to get the best education possible, it is actually more important to get him assigned to a great teacher than to a great school.
Bill GatesIf anyone has a vested interest in space solar power, it would have to be me.
Elon MuskIf a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen.
Henry David ThoreauI have been on the road and visited numerous places and met people from all over the globe. I can say that it looks nearly the same everywhere I have been: The climate crisis is ignored by people in charge, despite the science being crystal clear.
Greta ThunbergEvery other civilized nation in the world has been compelled to care for its forests, and so must we if waste and destruction are not to go on to the bitter end, leaving America as barren as Palestine or Spain.
John MuirWe can’t just continue living as if there was no tomorrow, because there is a tomorrow.
Greta ThunbergThere aren’t many things that are universally cool, and it’s cool not to litter. I’d never do it.
Matthew McConaugheyWe should remember that there are nations which meet more than 30 to 60% of their power requirements through the nuclear power system.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam