Biodegradable Quotes:

Once shoppers become empowered, we will facilitate industries thinking in completely new terms; for example, making products that are totally biodegradable.

- Daniel Goleman

source: "O Interview: How Daniel Goleman Is Changing Our Ideas About Living Green". Interview with Aimee Lee Ball, www.oprah.com. April, 2009.

topic: Thinking, Example, Biodegradable, Shoppers

Fully "biodegradable" structures are nowadays the ideal and the standards to which most, if not all structures, struggle to measure up.

- Zygmunt Bauman

source: Source: www.theoryculturesociety.org

topic: Struggle, Structure, Biodegradable

Styrofoam and plastic milk jugs are biodegradable! Do you know what isn't biodegradable? Paper!

- Rush Limbaugh

source: "The Rush Limbaugh Show", June 15, 1991.

topic: Paper, Milk, Jugs, Styrofoam, Biodegradable

There is a lot of interesting product coming to market already. Bags and bottles and cups and such made of potato starch and other fully biodegradable materials. In some sense, plastic is more chemically complex. We ought to be able to simplify.

- Edward Norton

source: "Earth Chats: Edward Norton". The Washington Post Live Chat, www.slate.com. April 22, 2008.

topic: Interesting, Bags, Bottles, Biodegradable

If a technology is elegant, biodegradable, made from renewable materials and employs a minimum of muscular, water or wind energy, is responsive, beautiful in its way, and challenging to the user in that it develops the user's senses and strength - it may comport with nature.

- Stephanie Mills

source: Source: www.counterpunch.org

topic: Beautiful, Technology, Wind, Wind Energy, Biodegradable

A garden is a kinetic work of art, not an object but a process, open-ended, biodegradable, nurturant, like all women's artistry. A garden is the best alternative therapy.

- Germaine Greer

topic: Art, Garden, Alternatives, Biodegradable

I love hiking in the hills not far from my house. I'm invested in my hikes. Sometimes kids go up there and spray-paint over the signs; I've found a biodegradable paint cleaner, and I'll scrub the signs so they're nice and clean.

- Nathan Fillion

source: "Geekmom swoon of the week: Nathan Fillion in parade magazine". Interview with Alison Clark, www.wired.com. March 19, 2011.

topic: Nice, Kids, Hiking, Spray Paint, Biodegradable

Scientists in Australia are working on making biodegradable car parts out of hemp. This might get confusing. When someone says, roll up the window, they might mean, roll up the window!

- Jay Leno

topic: Mean, Australia, Car, Biodegradable, Hemp

We, all of us in the First World, have participated in something of a binge, a half century of unbelievable prosperity and ease. We may have had some intuition that it was a binge and the earth couldn't support it, but aside from the easy things (biodegradable detergent, slightly smaller cars) we didn't do much. We didn't turn our lives around to prevent it. Our sadness is almost an aesthetic response - appropriate because we have marred a great, mad, profligate work of art, taken a hammer to the most perfectly proportioned of sculptures.

- Bill McKibben

topic: Art, Taken, Sadness, Biodegradable

Medical knowledge and technical savvy are biodegradable. The sort of medicine that was practiced in Boston or New York or Atlanta fifty years ago would be as strange to a medical student or intern today as the ceremonial dance of a !Kung San tribe would seem to a rock festival audience in Hackensack.

- Lewis Thomas

topic: Inspirational, Dance, New York, Medical Knowledge, Biodegradable

The pleasure of the mulch pile is incomprehensible. I wouldn't care if they just hauled the mulch to the landfill somewhere. Obviously, grass clippings are biodegradable, but when they're bunched together at the landfill, they become badly influenced by other garbage.

- Paula Poundstone

topic: Together, Care, Garbage, Biodegradable, Landfills