Environmental Quotes

Does a poet create, originate, initiate the thing called a poem, or is his behavior merely the product of his genetic and environmental histories?

Global warming is not just the greatest environmental challenge facing our planet - it is one of our greatest challenges of any kind.

When you fully understand the situation, it is worse than you think.

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

May the countryside and the gliding valley streams content me. Lost to fame, let me love river and woodland.

We need a new environmental consciousness on a global basis. To do this, we need to educate people.

Humans are now the most numerous mammal on the planet. There are more humans than rats or mice. Humans have a huge ecological footprint, magnified by their technology.

If my parents had discouraged me, I would have turned out very differently. They raised me in an open-minded, liberal environment.

When I vote for a candidate I always try to learn as much as I can about them, but I guess I focus a lot on environmental issues, and I tend to vote along those lines.

It's clear that agriculture, done right, is the best means the world has today to simultaneously tackle food security, poverty and environmental degradation.

I think there is a danger that an environmental crisis can be used in precisely the same way as the terrorist threat can be used in terms of giving up freedom.

People who minister worldwide to protect and conserve the environment are of no lower status than those who minister to plant churches.

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.

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

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.

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

The choice to 'do nothing' in response to the mounting evidence is actually a choice to continue and even accelerate the reckless environmental destruction that is creating the catastrophe at hand.

For the source of any characteristic so widespread and uniform as this adaptation to environment we must go back to the very beginning of the human race.

The earth is like a spaceship that didn't come with an operating manual.

A way of life that ever more rapidly depletes the power of the Earth to sustain it and piles up ever more insoluble problems for each succeeding generation can only be called violent.

Nations are in effect ceding portions of their sovereignty to the international community and beginning to create a new system of international environmental governance.

The ecological crisis is a moral issue.

Your grandchildren will likely find it incredible - or even sinful - that you burned up a gallon of gasoline to fetch a pack of cigarettes!

People blame their environment, their education, their opportunities, their luck, for their condition. They are wrong. There is one person to blame — and only one — THEMSELVES.

We have environmental laws for a reason: to protect endangered biodiversity. And as a country that has one of the highest loss of species anywhere in the world, they're important.

The Earth's population will be culled from today's 6.6 billion to as few as 500 million, with most of the survivors living in the far latitudes - Canada, Iceland, Scandinavia, the Arctic Basin.

America has not led but fled on the issue of global warming.

The awareness of our environment came progressively in all countries with different outlets.

Much guilt arises in the life of the believer from practicing the chameleon life of environmental adaptation.

Any regeneration project that fails to put environmental and social benefits at its very heart is unlikely to achieve anything more than a very short-lived spasm of spurious prosperity

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

Mother Nature is not sweet.

The global industrial economy is the engine for massive environmental degradation and massive human (and nonhuman) impoverishment.

Consuming three planets' worth of resources when in fact we have one is the environmental equivalent of childhood obesity - eating until you make yourself sick.

In all matters moderation is desirable. If a thing is carried to excess, it will prove a source of evil.

We would be foolish and silly not to unite with people in the public health sector, the environmental community, [and] unions, to try to challenge corporate agriculture.

I'm one of the few candidates that actually goes out and talks in public, so I say a lot of things based on my experience, my judgment as an environmental health physician, so I say a lot of stuff.

The collegiate idealists who fill the ranks of the environmental movement seem willing to do absolutely anything to save the biosphere, except take science courses and learn something about it.

If our system continues without modification involving environmental and social concern, we will face an economic and social break down.

Simply the thing that I am shall make me live.

Water is the blood in our veins.

We do not ride on the railroad; it rides upon us.

I think every discovery of the world plunges us into jubilation, a radical amazement that tears apart the veil of triviality.

You have to hold yourself accountable for your actions, and that's how we're going to protect the Earth.

Disease may be defined as "A change produced in living things in consequence of which they are no longer in harmony with their environment."

The gains made by better management and technology are still being outpaced by the environmental impacts of population and economic growth. We are on an unsustainable course.

We want to annoy the whenever we can. The best thing we can do with environmentalists is shoot them.

No matter if the science is all phoney, there are collateral environmental benefits.... climate change [provides] the greatest chance to bring about justice and equality in the world.

Providing a real way to deal with the urgent needs of environmental issues that is accessible to everyone is the new fight for the democratization of design.

When earth is rich it bids defiance to droughts, yields in abundance and of the best quality.