Environmental

This is absolutely bizarre that we continue to subsidize highways beyond the gasoline tax, airlines, and we don't subsidize, we don't want to subsidize a national rail system that has environmental impact.

The Chinese have figured out that they have a giant environmental problem. Folks in Beijing, some days, literally can't breathe. Over a million Chinese die prematurely every year because of air pollution.

Complexity is one of the great problems in environmental design.

Architects in the past have tended to concentrate their attention on the building as a static object. I believe dynamics are more important: the dynamics of people, their interaction with spaces and environmental condition.

Every creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and pine trees, and he who understands it aright will rather preserve its life than destroy it.

Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.

I don't use any animal products, both because of ethical and environmental and climate reasons.

Biofuels such as ethanol require enormous amounts of cropland and end up displacing either food crops or natural wilderness, neither of which is good.

I'm anti-tax, but I'm pro-carbon tax.

As you heat the planet up, it's just like boiling a pot.

The industrial processes in use today were developed at a time when no one had to consider what the environmental impact was. Who cared? But making ecological concerns matter to a company's bottom line will help it do the research and development that will reinvent everything we buy.

Climate change is a terrible problem, and it absolutely needs to be solved. It deserves to be a huge priority.

I have a private plane. But I fly commercial when I go to environmental conferences.