Environmental Quotes

I am going to confront the old-fashioned negative thinking which says that all government needs to d...

In Kenya women are the first victims of environmental degradation, because they are the ones who wal...

The generation that destroys the environment is not the generation that pays the price. That is the ...

We have enslaved the rest of the animal creation, and have treated our distant cousins in fur and fe...

Our world faces a true planetary emergency. I know the phrase sounds shrill, and I know it's a chall...

Conservation is a state of harmony between men and land.

If you can't be in awe of Mother Nature, there's something wrong with you.

I started traveling out of curiosity, but I have come to believe in travel's political importance, t...

It is not rational, never mind 'appropriate,' to impose billions of dollars in economic costs in ret...

Grave security concerns can arise as a result of demographic trends, chronic poverty, economic inequ...

My entry into the environmental arena was through the issue that so dramatically - and destructively...

Environmental concern is now firmly embedded in public life: in education, medicine and law; in jour...

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

Climate change is happening, humans are causing it, and I think this is perhaps the most serious env...

Fracking is doable if there's full disclosure of all chemicals used. Secondly, science dictates the ...

Complexity is one of the great problems in environmental design.

The government should set a goal for a clean environment but not mandate how that goal should be imp...

We're running the most dangerous experiment in history right now, which is to see how much carbon di...

The reality is gas prices should be much more expensive then they are because we're not incorporatin...

Just as modern mass production requires the standardization of commodities, so the social process re...

In places where this beauty has already disappeared, we will reconstruct it.

You cannot achieve environmental security and human development without addressing the basic issues ...

He who hears the rippling of rivers in these degenerate days will not utterly despair.

It appears to be a law that you cannot have a deep sympathy with both man and nature.

Every creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and pine trees, and he who understands it ar...

If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as ...

I did not become a vegetarian for my health, I did it for the health of the chickens.

But reducing harmful emissions, abating our dependence on foreign oil and developing alternative ren...

The quicker we humans learn that saving open space and wildlife is critical to our welfare and quali...

I would point out that if you're a believer in the Bible, one would have to say the Great Flood is a...

Nature is the mother and the habitat of man, even if sometimes a stepmother and an unfriendly home.

Take a course in good water and air; and in the eternal youth of Nature you may renew your own. Go q...

Keep close to Nature's heart... and break clear away, once in awhile, and climb a mountain or spend ...

If we do not permit the earth to produce beauty and joy, it will in the end not produce food, either...

American culture is torn between our long romance with violence and our terror of the devastation wr...

The root cause of the looming energy problem - and the key to easing environmental, economic and rel...

A primary function of art and thought is to liberate the individual from the tyranny of his culture ...

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's ...

If one of the arguments against eating meat is to do with cruelty and animal intelligence, then lab ...

I've developed a huge regard for Toyota for its environmental awareness, for its immense commitment ...

People in Slow Food understand that food is an environmental issue.

In addition to contributing to erosion, pollution, food poisoning, and the dead zone, corn requires ...

Meat is a mighty contributor to climate change and other environmental problems. The amount of meat ...

Peace should be understood in a human way - in a broad social, political and economic way. Peace is ...

Civilization has given us enormous successes: going to the moon, technology. But then this is the ci...

There are two problems for our species' survival - nuclear war and environmental catastrophe - and w...

All is connected... no one thing can change by itself.

The responses that environmentalists evoke - fear, anxiety, numbness, despair - are not helpful, eve...

If the federal government had been around when the Creator was putting His hand to this state, India...