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"In the United States, we do a pretty good job of protecting iconic landscapes and postcard views, but the ocean gets no respect."

Jeff Goodell on Respect

More quotes about Respect

• "An individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law."

  Martin Luther King, Jr. on Respect

• "Everyone should be respected as an individual, but no one idolized."

  Albert Einstein on Respect

• "Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized."

  Albert Einstein on Respect

• "Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery."

  Malcolm X on Respect

• "If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem."

  Abraham Lincoln on Respect

More quotes by Jeff Goodell

• "In the U.S. alone, weather disasters caused $50 billion in economic damages in 2010."

• "Extracting oil from the tar sands is a nasty, polluting, energy-intensive business."

• "Bill Gates is a relative newcomer to the fight against global warming, but he's already shifting the debate over climate change."

• "Among all the tests President Obama faced in his first term, his biggest failure was climate change."

• "Geoengineering - the deliberate, large-scale manipulation of the earth's climate to offset global warming - is a nightmare fix for climate change."