Environmental Quotes

Environmental justice is the movement to ensure that no community suffers disproportionate environmental burdens or goes without enjoying fair environmental benefits.

The supreme reality of our time is the vulnerability of our planet.

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

To be modern is to destroy nature.

Science and education, when devoid of a social conscience or environmental and human concern, are meaningless.

Industrial society seems likely to be entering a period of severe stress, due in part to problems of human behavior and in part to economic and environmental problems

We have forgotten how to be good guests, how to walk lightly on the earth as its other creatures do.

Dripping water hollows out a stone

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.

Be gentle with the earth.

The beauty of the world is Christ's tender smile for us coming through matter.

The most powerful natural species are those that adapt to environmental change without losing their fundamental identity which gives them their competitive advantage.

Smog is affecting larger parts of China, and environmental pollution has become a major problem, which is natures red-light warning against the model of inefficient and blind development.

Everything in nature is resurrection.

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

Complexity is one of the great problems in environmental design.

If we go on using the Earth uncaringly and without replenishing it, then we are just greedy consumers.

Environmental justice [means that] no community should be saddled with more environmental burdens and less environmental benefits than any other.

Environmental damage such as graffiti, fly-posting and general littering is a menace that is becoming all too prevalent, not just in inner cities but in many communities - urban and rural.

Be Thou praised, my Lord, of our Sister Mother Earth, which sustains and hath us in rule, and produces divers fruits with coloured flowers and herbs.

Winter must be cold for those with no warm memories.

There are no words that can tell the hidden spirit of the wilderness, that can reveal its mystery, its melancholy and its charm.

Each of us now has 2.27 kg (5 lbs) of plastic embedded in our bodies.

I believe in a sound, strong environmental policy that protects the health of our people and a wise stewardship of our nation's natural resources.

You forget that the fruits belong to all and that the land belongs to no one.

The greatest problem we face is the growing number of people living in poverty. The related sense of hopelessness has to be impacting on every part of environmental management.

What we do flows from who we are.

If people destroy something replaceable made by mankind, they are called vandals; if they destroy something irreplaceable made by God, they are called developers.

It is not really necessary to destroy nature in order to gain God's favor or even his undivided attention.

We will look upon the earth and her sister planets as being with us, not for us.

Those who love and free nature are never alone.

In the created world around us we see the Eternal Artist, Eternal Love at work.

We have to understand the ubiquity of energy in everything we do. Energy is core to our economy and it brings with it environmental challenges, and it's core to our security challenges.

Where the earth is, we are.

In the state of Wisconsin it's mandated that teachers in the social sciences and hard sciences have to start giving environmental education by the first grade, through high school

There is no way to re-enchant our lives in a disenchanted culture except by becoming renegades from that culture and planting the seeds for a new one.

We've got to ride the global-warming issue. Even if the theory of global warming is wrong, we will be doing the right thing in terms of economic policy and environmental policy.

I like to define biology as the history of the earth and all its life - past, present, and future.

All I'm saying is that there is a price to be paid at the sharp end.. environmentally and everywhere else.. for the food that is produced in a particular way.

A brook can be a friend in a special way. It talks to you with splashy gurgles. It cools your toes and lets you sit quietly beside it when you don't feel like speaking.

More than ever before, there is a global understanding that long-term social, economic, and environmental development would be impossible without healthy families, communities, and countries

Everyone, rich or poor, deserves a shelter for the soul, architects should lead in procuring social and environmental change.

They paved paradise and put up a parking lot.

Everything we see in nature is manifested truth; only we are not able to recognize it unless truth is manifest within ourselves.

As we grow older we should become not less radical but more so.

Go quietly alone, no harm will befall you.

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

Climate change is happening, humans are causing it, and I think this is perhaps the most serious environmental issue facing us.

An individual's harmony with his or her 'own deep self' requires not merely a journey to the interior but a harmonizing with the environmental world.

Environment is stronger than will.