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If you were to ask me to define a photograph in a few words, I would say it is a fossil of light and time. — Daido Moriyama

The dinosaurs died so that chat rooms may flourish — Tom Robbins

Society's dependence on fossil fuels is jeopardising social and economic progress. — Ban Ki-moon

Assuming that humans continue to burn fossil fuels, the oceans will continue to absorb carbon dioxide and will become increasingly acidified. — Elizabeth Kolbert

A word is no light matter. Words have with truth been called fossil poetry, each, that is, a symbol of a creative thought. — Edith Hamilton

I think so long as fossil fuels are cheap, people will use them and it will postpone a movement towards new technologies. — Paul Krugman

Dreaming is the soul's fuel...and it is not fossil — Jennifer Jimenez

It's time to transition beyond our fossil fuel addiction to a just economy based on green jobs, renewable energy, and local organic food. — Winona LaDuke

If somebody tries to tell me the earth was created in 7 days I take a fossil and say "FOSSIL". If he still won't shut up I throw it at him. — Lewis Black

No matter what else happens, this is the century in which we must learn to live without fossil fuel. — David Goodstein

Anyone who would tackle our current addiction to fossil fuels is going to have to maneuver around denial. — William H. Calvin

We've got to alter our fossil fuel dependence and go to other energy sources. — Sylvia Earle

For a time I didn't want to answer any questions about Queen. I'd like to be viewed as something alive and relevant, not some fossil. — Brian May

The religionist is a living fossil, embedded in that rock called faith. — Robert G. Ingersoll

This was another fossil of a joke. I couldn't remember where it'd come from, I had a horrible feeling it might have been me. — Alexis Hall

Nobody gets beyond a petroleum economy. Not while there's petroleum there. — Dan Simmons

This year - today - I am repenting of my dependence on fossil fuels. — Jim Wallis

The amount of energy stored in all the fossil fuel on earth is negligible compared to the amount that the sun dispenses every day, free of charge. — Yuval Noah Harari

Coal and oil lobbyists added fossil fuels to a bill aimed at helping American manufacturers, so they too could claim 'manufacturing' tax deductions. — Bernie Sanders

It is a fact that, today, up to seven million people a year are dying from fossil fuel pollution. — Mark Ruffalo

One SF prediction that I would like very much to see: Get solar collectors launched to beam energy back home, and get away from fossil fuels. — Jack McDevitt

The hypothetical aquatic phase of the ancestral apes during the fossil gap would have been brief, a matter of two or three million years. — Elaine Morgan

Hillary Clinton understands that a president's job is to worry about future generations, not the short-term profits of the fossil fuel industry. — Bernie Sanders

We need to profoundly revise all of our taxes and charges. The aim is to tax pollution - notably fossil fuels - more, and tax work less — Nicolas Sarkozy

Here's what we should be doing. We've got to get off fossil fuels. — Lee Iacocca

Protectionist politicians cannot stand the notion of a fossil-fuel-rich America maintaining record levels of production through exports. — Mike Pompeo

Look at the longing, the anguish of a sad fossil world / that cannot find the accent of its first sob. — Federico Garcia Lorca

The sunshine that strikes American roads each year contains more energy than all the fossil fuels used by the entire world. — Denis Hayes

The fossil fuel industry for too long has shifted enormous costs of carbon pollution onto the public. — Bernie Sanders

Rising carbon price is essential to 'decarbonize' the economy - to remove the nation towards the era beyond fossil fuels. — James Hansen

I must do something to keep my thoughts fresh and growing. I dread nothing so much as falling into a rut and feeling myself becoming a fossil. — James A. Garfield

For decades, NRDC has created and supported policies that will ultimately end our reliance on fossil fuels. — Frances Beinecke

A soap bubble is as real as a fossil tooth. — Vladimir Nabokov

There is more He-3 energy on the Moon than we have ever had in the form of fossil fuels on Earth. All we have to do is to go there and get it. — Wilson Greatbatch

The world has used me so unkindly, I fear it has made me suspicious of everyone. — Mary Anning

Burning fossil fuels has given us the gift of seeing ourselves in new ways. But that very gift now enables us to see we've got to change our ways. — Sylvia Earle

Without an end to the burning of fossil fuels, coal especially, most of us will live shorter lives. I'm hopeful, but very, very concerned. — Bill Nye

It makes no sense to invest in [fossil fuel] companies that undermine our future — Desmond Tutu

If you encase yourself in stone like a fossil, you'll have an existence, but not a life. — Deborah O'Brien

We must get rid of fossil fuels by developing injection systems for automobiles, which can run on bio-fuel. — A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

As J. B. S. Haldane said when asked what evidence might contradict evolution, 'Fossil rabbits in the Precambrian. — Richard Dawkins

Every single record I have is a fossil. — Henry Rollins

We can either save the planet from catastrophic warming, or protect fossil fuel CEOs. Not both. Do the math(s) — Bill McKibben

Burning fossil fuels is like breaking up the furniture to feed the fireplace because it's easier than going out to the woodpile. — Theodore Roosevelt

Palaeontologists cannot live by uniformitarianism alone. This may be termed the Phenomenon of the Fallibility of the Fossil Record. — D. V. Ager

Burning all the fossil fuels will destroy the planet we know, Creation, the planet of stable climate in which civilization developed. — James Hansen

I will give up my belief in evolution if someone finds a fossil rabbit in the Precambrian. — John B. S. Haldane

Nuclear power and fossil fuels are the choices of the past. Renewable energy is the choice of the future that is here today. — Hermann Scheer

We must rapidly wean ourselves off our dependence on coal and fossil fuels — Richard Branson

What we can be scientifically certain of is that our continued use of fossil fuels is pushing us to a point of no return — Barack Obama

You see, the Greenhouse Effect is a direct result of burning fossil or old carbon fuels. — Jack Herer

As Emerson observes, "The etymologist finds the deadest word to have been once a brilliant picture. Language is fossil poetry."4 — Gene Edward Veith Jr.

I think there's so much we don't know and the unknown in the ocean; every 10 years or so, we find some fossil that's been there before mankind. — Ving Rhames

We all know that we have to get off of fossil fuels. And we know that the world is going in that direction. And we have to do it fast. — Josh Fox

Because the financial power of the fossil-fuel industry is so great it can, and has, delayed any real action of the climate issues almost everywhere. — Bill McKibben

It's as certain that as long as fossil fuels are the cheapest energy, we will just keep burning them. — James Hansen

Just 8% of the $409bn spent on fossil-fuel subsidies in 2010 went to the poorest 20% of the population. — Fatih Birol

Today, wind is the cheapest energy in America; solar is not far behind. In time, fossil fuels will only get more and more expensive. — Mark Ruffalo

Not using fossil fuels is tantamount to not using energy. It is economic suicide and eco-manslaughter. — Paul Driessen

Charles Darwin viewed the fossil record more as an embarrassment than as an aid to his theory ... — Stephen Jay Gould

Evolution could so easily be disproved if just a single fossil turned up in the wrong date order. Evolution has passed this test with flying colours. — Richard Dawkins

There is a reason it is called fossil fuel-it is an outdated method of getting power. — Alexandra Paul

Either you abandon fossil fuels, or you find a way to get that carbon back. — Klaus Lackner

So many people are on the front lines of this fossil fuel frenzy. It is infused with a sense of urgency. — Avi Lewis

Horizontal and vertical sprawl ... are the dinosaurs of an ending fossil-fuel age of synthetic culture. — Leon Krier

Trees and soils can absorb carbon dioxide released by fossil fuel burning. It would be great to subsidize responsible farmers and forest managers. — Alana Beard

Practically every environmental problem we have can be traced to our addiction to fossil fuels, primarily oil. — Dennis Weaver

To me, these days will never end. I am always there, in that room with her,
or if not I, the imprint of myself - my fossil-love — Jeanette Winterson

Nay; It's nought but an' owd fossil cheese, that somebody's roll't away — Randolph Caldecott

Alone among businesses, the fossil-fuel industry is allowed to dump its main waste, carbon dioxide, for free — Bill McKibben

It's going to cost trillions of dollars to rework the energy sources all over the world. Were going to have to move away from fossil fuels. — Ted Turner

The heavenly light you admire is fossil-light, it's the unfathomably distant past you gaze into, stars long extinct — Joyce Carol Oates

Every word Martone sets down, finally, a choice that limits the universe, their trail across the page a fossil record of some life's life-story. — Michael Martone

The fossil record contains no trace of these preliminary stages in the development of many-celled organisms. — Robert Jastrow

The fossil record is incredible when it preserves things, but it's not a complete record. — Jack Horner

I lean to you, numb as a fossil. Tell me I'm here. — Sylvia Plath

Here's what I think the truth is: We are all addicts of fossil fuels in a state of denial, about to face cold turkey. — Kurt Vonnegut

But I still think that to the unprejudiced, the fossil record of plants is in favor of special creation. — E.J.H. Corner

Energy markets can be thought of as suffering from appendicitis due to fossil fuel subsidies. They need to be removed for a healthy energy economy. — Fatih Birol

One of my top priorities in Congress is to reduce U.S. dependence on fossil fuels. — Lincoln Diaz-Balart

The 20th century was the time when the world turned to use of fossil fuels and the 21st century will be the century of the renewables. — Lester R. Brown

I believe in natural gas as a clean, cheap alternative to fossil fuels. — Nancy Pelosi

A fossil is so powerful. It's moving. This is my ancestor. The naturalist is moved by the fossil ... not the cross. — Greg Graffin

Yes, I am of old family, and not illiterate. I am a fossil." "A which?" "Fossil. The first horses were fossils. They date back two million years. — Mark Twain

The fact is fossil fuel carbon will stay in the surface climate system for millennia. — James Hansen

Poetry is a fossil rock-print of a fin and a wing, with an illegible oath between. — Carl Sandburg

Any friend of fossil is a friend of mine. We've got to do everything we can to get people out of their automobiles and into mass transit. — Michael Bloomberg

We should be increasing research and development into our fossil fuel program. — Tim Holden

For people who currently have to burn fossil fuels to produce meager, polluting light, LED lighting is a game changer. — Shuji Nakamura

What has become clear from the science is that we cannot burn all of the fossil fuels without creating a very different planet. — James Hansen

Our dependence on fossil fuels amounts to global pyromania, and the only fire extinguisher we have at our disposal is renewable energy. — Hermann Scheer

Even if we stop the growth, we'd still be adding a constant amount of fossil carbon to the atmosphere each year. — William H. Calvin

Fresh water is like a fossil fuel; we should not waste it. — Walter Munk

I think a revolution transitioning from fossil fuels to clean, renewable energy - somebody's going to be the 21st-century clean-energy superpower. — Hillary Clinton

The science of fossil shells is the first step towards the study of the earth. — Giovanni Battista Brocchi

Civilization as we know it will come to an end sometime in this century unless we can find a way to live without fossil fuels. — David Goodstein

When I was a kid the highlight of my week would be doing a fossil hunt at the local quarry ... that kind of thing. — Alice Lowe

As long as we're dependent on those fossil fuels, we're dependent on the Middle East. If we are not victims, we're certainly captives. — John M. McHugh

Natural gas is a dirty fossil fuel like the rest of them. — Josh Fox

Trusting your energy policy to the fossil fuel lobby is like trusting your health care system to the tobacco lobby. — William H. Calvin