Famous Quotes About - environmental

  • A knowledgeable and courageous U.S. president could help enormously in leading the world's nations toward saving the climate. ... Donella Meadows {view}
  • After all, sustainability means running the global environment - Earth Inc. - like a corporation: with depreciation, amortization and maintenance accounts. In other words, keeping the asset whole, rather than undermining your natural capital. ... Maurice Strong {view}
  • All is connected... no one thing can change by itself. ... Paul Hawken {view}
  • Birds are indicators of the environment. If they are in trouble, we know we'll soon be in trouble. ... Roger Tory Peterson {view}
  • By polluting clear water with slime you will never find good drinking water. ... Aeschylus {view}
  • Conservation is a state of harmony between men and land. ... Aldo Leopold {view}
  • Earth Day 1970 was irrefutable evidence that the American people understood the environmental threat and wanted action to resolve it. ... Barry Commoner {view}
  • Environmental concern is now firmly embedded in public life: in education, medicine and law; in journalism, literature and art. ... Barry Commoner {view}
  • Environmental degradation, overpopulation, refugees, narcotics, terrorism, world crime movements, and organized crime are worldwide problems that don't stop at a nation's borders. ... Warren Christopher {view}
  • Every time I have some moment on a seashore, or in the mountains, or sometimes in a quiet forest, I think this is why the environment has to be preserved. ... Bill Bradley {view}
  • For me, going vegan was an ethical and environmental decision. I'm doing the right thing by the animals. ... Alexandra Paul {view}
  • Harmony with land is like harmony with a friend; you cannot cherish his right hand and chop off his left. ... Aldo Leopold {view}
  • I consider myself to have been the bridge between the shotgun and the binoculars in bird watching. Before I came along, the primary way to observe birds was to shoot them and stuff them. ... Roger Tory Peterson {view}
  • I did not become a vegetarian for my health, I did it for the health of the chickens. ... Isaac Bashevis Singer {view}
  • I don't think we're going to save anything if we go around talking about saving plants and animals only; we've got to translate that into what's in it for us. ... Jim Fowler {view}
  • I firmly believe that we can have a healthy environment and a sustainable timber industry. ... Frank Murkowski {view}
  • I see humanity now as one vast plant, needing for its highest fulfillment only love, the natural blessings of the great outdoors, and intelligent crossing and selection. ... Luther Burbank {view}
  • I think Captain Cousteau might be the father of the environmental movement. ... Ted Turner {view}
  • I think the cost of energy will come down when we make this transition to renewable energy. ... Al Gore {view}
  • I think the environment should be put in the category of our national security. Defense of our resources is just as important as defense abroad. Otherwise what is there to defend? ... Robert Redford {view}
  • I think the government has to reposition environment on top of their national and international priorities. ... Brian Mulroney {view}
  • If we bestow but a very little attention to the economy of the animal creation, we shall find manifest examples of premeditation, perseverance, resolution, and consumate artifice, in order to effect their purpose. ... William Bartram {view}
  • If we do not permit the earth to produce beauty and joy, it will in the end not produce food, either. ... Joseph Wood Krutch {view}
  • If we gave up eating beef we would have roughly 20 to 30 times more land for food than we have now. ... James Lovelock {view}
  • If you violate Nature's laws you are your own prosecuting attorney, judge, jury, and hangman. ... Luther Burbank {view}
  • In a few decades, the relationship between the environment, resources and conflict may seem almost as obvious as the connection we see today between human rights, democracy and peace. ... Wangari Maathai {view}
  • In a finite world this means that the per capita share of the world's goods must steadily decrease. ... Garrett Hardin {view}
  • In today's world, it is no longer unimaginable to think that business can operate - and even thrive - in an environmentally-friendly manner. ... Olympia Snowe {view}
  • Industry is fortune's right hand, and frugality its left. ... John Ray {view}
  • It is absolutely imperative that we protect, preserve and pass on this genetic heritage for man and every other living thing in as good a condition as we received it. ... David R. Brower {view}
  • It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment. ... Ansel Adams {view}
  • It seems that every time mankind is given a lot of energy, we go out and wreck something with it. ... David R. Brower {view}
  • Journey with me to a true commitment to our environment. Journey with me to the serenity of leaving to our children a planet in equilibrium. ... Paul Tsongas {view}
  • Keep close to Nature's heart... and break clear away, once in awhile, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean. ... John Muir {view}
  • Liberals in Congress have spent the past three decades pandering to environmental extremists. The policies they have put in place are in large part responsible for the energy crunch we are seeing today. We have not built a refinery in this country for 30 years. ... Marsha Blackburn {view}
  • Local innovation and initiative can help us better understand how to protect our environment. ... Gale Norton {view}
  • Maintaining healthy forests is essential to those who make a living from the land and for those of us who use them for recreational purposes. ... Cathy McMorris {view}
  • Mankind is considered (by the radical environmentalists) the lowest and the meanest of all species and is blamed for everything. ... Dixie Lee Ray {view}
  • Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has. ... Margaret Mead {view}
  • No one should be able to enter a wilderness by mechanical means. ... Garrett Hardin {view}
  • Not all is doom and gloom. We are beginning to understand the natural world and are gaining a reverence for life - all life. ... Roger Tory Peterson {view}
  • Nuclear power will help provide the electricity that our growing economy needs without increasing emissions. This is truly an environmentally responsible source of energy. ... Michael Burgess {view}
  • Our world faces a true planetary emergency. I know the phrase sounds shrill, and I know it's a challenge to the moral imagination. ... Al Gore {view}
  • People blame their environment. There is only one person to blame - and only one - themselves. ... Robert Collier {view}
  • People in Slow Food understand that food is an environmental issue. ... Michael Pollan {view}
  • Population, when unchecked, goes on doubling itself every 25 years or increases in a geometrical ratio. ... Thomas Malthus {view}
  • Pushing production out of America to nations without our environmental standards increases global environmental risks. ... Frank Murkowski {view}
  • Take a course in good water and air; and in the eternal youth of Nature you may renew your own. Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you. ... John Muir {view}
  • The Endangered Species Act is the strongest and most effective tool we have to repair the environmental harm that is causing a species to decline. ... Norm Dicks {view}
  • The environment is everything that isn't me. ... Albert Einstein {view}
  • The government should set a goal for a clean environment but not mandate how that goal should be implemented. ... Dixie Lee Ray {view}
  • The modern assault on the environment began about 50 years ago, during and immediately after World War II. ... Barry Commoner {view}
  • The only way forward, if we are going to improve the quality of the environment, is to get everybody involved. ... Richard Rogers {view}
  • There is no place where we can safely store worn-out reactors or their garbage. No place! ... David R. Brower {view}
  • They claim this mother of ours, the Earth, for their own use, and fence their neighbors away from her, and deface her with their buildings and their refuse. ... Sitting Bull {view}
  • Under the Environmental Protection Agency's Energy Star Program, homes are independently verified to be measurably more energy efficient than average houses. ... Melissa Bean {view}