Environmental Quotes

It seems that every time mankind is given a lot of energy, we go out and wreck something with it.

There is no place where we can safely store worn-out reactors or their garbage. No place!

I can find God in nature, in animals, in birds and the environment.

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.

We must return to nature and nature's god.

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.

If you violate Nature's laws you are your own prosecuting attorney, judge, jury, and hangman.

Nuclear power will help provide the electricity that our growing economy needs without increasing emissions. This is truly an environmentally responsible source of energy.

Environmental degradation, overpopulation, refugees, narcotics, terrorism, world crime movements, and organized crime are worldwide problems that don't stop at a nation's borders.

People blame their environment. There is only one person to blame - and only one - themselves.

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

Earth Day 1970 was irrefutable evidence that the American people understood the environmental threat and wanted action to resolve it.

The modern assault on the environment began about 50 years ago, during and immediately after World War II.

Take air quality in the United States today: It's about 30 percent better than it was 25 years ago, even though there are now more people driving more cars.

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.

We learned that economic growth and environmental protection can and should go hand in hand.

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.

The time is right for electric cars - in fact the time is critical.

Our world faces a true planetary emergency. I know the phrase sounds shrill, and I know it's a challenge to the moral imagination.

I think the cost of energy will come down when we make this transition to renewable energy.

Why are ecologists and environmentalists so feared and hated? This is because in part what they have to say is new to the general public, and the new is always alarming.

No one should be able to enter a wilderness by mechanical means.

In a finite world this means that the per capita share of the world's goods must steadily decrease.

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

We assume that everything's becoming more efficient, and in an immediate sense that's true; our lives are better in many ways. But that improvement has been gained through a massively inefficient use of natural resources.

We are now heading down a centuries-long path toward increasing the productivity of our natural capital - the resource systems upon which we depend to live - instead of our human capital.

Conservation is a state of harmony between men and land.

Harmony with land is like harmony with a friend; you cannot cherish his right hand and chop off his left.

I'm very concerned for the future of the earth and its amazing creatures. We've got to be careful and make sure we don't foul our own nest.

If we gave up eating beef we would have roughly 20 to 30 times more land for food than we have now.

Population, when unchecked, goes on doubling itself every 25 years or increases in a geometrical ratio.

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.

You may be able to fool the voters, but not the atmosphere.

A knowledgeable and courageous U.S. president could help enormously in leading the world's nations toward saving the climate.

I think the government has to reposition environment on top of their national and international priorities.

I firmly believe that we can have a healthy environment and a sustainable timber industry.

Pushing production out of America to nations without our environmental standards increases global environmental risks.

Local innovation and initiative can help us better understand how to protect our environment.

Why has it seemed that the only way to protect the environment is with heavy-handed government regulation?

For me, going vegan was an ethical and environmental decision. I'm doing the right thing by the animals.

I had never been able to get a car that said how much I cared about the environment until I drove electric.

Birds are indicators of the environment. If they are in trouble, we know we'll soon be in trouble.

Not all is doom and gloom. We are beginning to understand the natural world and are gaining a reverence for life - all life.

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.

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

Unless we keep this planet healthy, everything else is for naught.

We can have technology, prosperity, nice homes and cars, but at the same time we must be conscious of what we are dumping into the water, the air and our food.

The only way forward, if we are going to improve the quality of the environment, is to get everybody involved.

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

In today's world, it is no longer unimaginable to think that business can operate - and even thrive - in an environmentally-friendly manner.

Within 10 years it will be impossible to travel to the North Pole by dog team. There will be too much open water.

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.

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.

I think Captain Cousteau might be the father of the environmental movement.

When we realize we can make a buck cleaning up the environment, it will be done!

We don't have to sacrifice a strong economy for a healthy environment.

We must move away from our dependency on fossil fuels, and I am glad that GM has invested over $1 billion in hydrogen fuel cells cars to meet this goal.