Environmental Quotes

The destruction of aquatic ecosystem health, and the increasing water scarcity, are in my opinion the most pressing environmental problems facing human kind.

No sustainable development, environmental harmony or lasting security will happen if we are unable to eradicate hunger and extreme inequality

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.

White males are the most responsible for the destruction of human life and environment on the planet today.

There's a river somewhere that flows through the lives of everyone.

Environment is stronger than will.

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

What changed in the United States with Hurricane Katrina was a feeling that we have entered a period of consequences.

If I thought I was going to die tomorrow, I should nevertheless plant a tree today.

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.

We must confront the privileged elite who have destroyed a large part of the world.

Humanity's greatest challenge may soon be just making it to the next harvest.

For if one link in nature's chain might be lost, another might be lost, until the whole of things will vanish by piecemeal.

Phasing out the human race will solve every problem on earth, social and environmental.

Environmental pollution is a blight on people's quality of life and a trouble that weighs on their hearts.

There are many ways to salvation, and one of them is to follow a river.

There is no doubt that we live in an age of unprecedented, and sometimes terrifying, technological advance where the speed of advance so often outstrips the necessary ethical considerations.

Even in the vast and mysterious reaches of the sea we are brought back to the fundamental truth that nothing lives to itself.

For the first time in the history of the world, every human being is now subjected to contact with dangerous chemicals, from the moment of conception until death.

33% of urban traffic is actively seeking a parking space.

Militarism is in direct competition with people's needs for food, health care, and environmental protection.

The societies of consumption and squandering of material resources are incompatible with the idea of economic growth and a clean planet.

Even to your old age and gray hairs I am he, I am he who will sustain you. I have made you and I will carry you; I will sustain you and I will rescue you.

There are two problems for our species' survival - nuclear war and environmental catastrophe - and we're hurtling towards them. Knowingly.

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

Stan Slaughter is the thoroughbred of the environmental educators I've hired. Second place is not even close.

We have been too kind to those who are killing the planet. We have been inexcusably, unforgivably, insanely kind.

I want to make it clear,if there is ever a conflict [between environmental quality and economic growth], I will go for beauty, clean air, water, and landscape.

I think my path would have always gone back to or delivered me to wildlife. I think wildlife is just like a magnet, and it's something that I can't help.

If we do not serve what coheres and endures, we serve what disintegrates and destroys.

I am haunted by waters.

The threat of environmental crisis is the 'international disaster key' to unlock the New World Order.

In wilderness I sense the miracle of life.

I often quote an African proverb that says: "The world is not ours, the earth is not ours, It's a treasure we hold in trust for future generations." And I often hope we will be worthy of that trust.

Socialism failed because it couldn't tell the economic truth. Capitalism may fail because it couldn't tell the ecological truth.

What a country chooses to save is what a country chooses to say about itself.

Gardening is civil and social, but it wants the vigor and freedom of the forest and the outlaw.

Economies are supposed to serve human ends.. not the other way round. We forget at our peril that markets make a good servant, a bad master and a worse religion.

The Senegalese conservationist Baba Dioum can summarize: "In the end, we will conserve only what we love, we will love only what we understand, and we will understand only what we are taught."

Overconsumption is the mother of all environmental problems. For the first time in the history of capitalism, consumption itself has become controversial.

I'm sad that it's uncool or offensive to talk about environmental or human rights issues.

The hydrogen powered car, with its high fuel mileage and zero emission rate, is just one example of the products under development that will help increase our energy independence.

... why are so many religious people arguing about the origin of the species but so few concerned about the extinction of the species?

Our kinship with Earth must be maintained; otherwise, we will find ourselves trapped in the center of our own paved-over souls with no way out.

We're not trying to reinvent the wheel; for any environmental organization to claim sole responsibility for any kind of victory is insane, because everybody attacks these problems as a group.

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

There's a worldwide linking of environmental activists, developmental experts and human rights advocates. And they're using the two frameworks, in particular environmental standards and human rights.

If people see how we're all interconnected and connected with Nature, we wouldn't have an environmental crisis, we wouldn't have two dozen wars all over the world.

Let he who would move the world, first complete an environmental impact assessment and a 90-day public comment period.

As with Three Mile Island, the hysteria of the media and the political class over the Deepwater spill is likely to lead to increased risk and adverse environmental tradeoffs.