Environmental Quotes
Environmental Quote of the day
Conservation is a cause that has no end. There is no point at which we will say our work is finished.
Only through freedom and environmental experience is it practically possible for human development to occur.
Just like a single cell, the character of our lives is determined not by our genes but by our responses to the environmental signals that propel life.
If there is neither excessive wealth nor immoderate poverty in a nation, then justice may be said to prevail.
Every creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and pine trees, and he who understands it aright will rather preserve its life than destroy it.
Take care how you place your moccasins upon the Earth, step with care, for the faces of the future generations are looking up from the Earth waiting their turn for life.
Today, scientists sound the alarm on other environmental dangers. Vested interests still hire their own scientists to confuse the issue. But in the end, nature, will not be fooled.
I believe our biggest issue is the same biggest issue that the whole world is facing, and that's habitat destruction.
Overconsumption and overpopulation underlie every environmental problem we face today
We are a part of everything that is beneath us, above us, and around us. Our past is our present, our present is our future, and our future is seven generations past and present.
The earth we abuse and the living things we kill will, in the end, take their revenge; for in exploiting their presence we are diminishing our future.
The most important environmental issue is one that is rarely mentioned, and that is the lack of a conservation ethic in our culture.
Nature is the mother and the habitat of man, even if sometimes a stepmother and an unfriendly home.
In addition to contributing to erosion, pollution, food poisoning, and the dead zone, corn requires huge amounts of fossil fuel - it takes a half gallon of fossil fuel to produce a bushel of corn.
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.
You could cover the whole earth with asphalt, but sooner or later green grass would break through.
Carbon dioxide is portrayed as harmful. But there isn't even one study that can be produced that shows that carbon dioxide is a harmful gas.
Nobody on this planet is going to be untouched by the impacts of climate change.
Quite frankly, there is no answer to climate change without substantially, dramatically, increasing the amount of renewable energy in the global energy system.
What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?
The essence of globalization is a subordination of human rights, of labor rights, consumer, environmental rights, democracy rights, to the imperatives of global trade and investment.
We're terrible animals. I think that the Earth's immune system is trying to get rid of us, as well it should.
Loads of chemicals and hazardous wastes have been introduced into the atmosphere that didn't even exist in 1948. The environmental condition of the planet is far worse than it was 42 years ago.
When future generations judge those who came before them on environmental issues, they may conclude "they didn't know": let us not go down in history as the generations who knew, but didn't care
In the real world there is no nature vs. nurture argument, only an infinitely complex and moment-by-moment interaction between genetic and environmental effects
The bulldozer and not the atomic bomb may turn out to be the most destructive invention of the 20th century.
In nature there is no such thing as waste. In nature nothing is wasted; everything is recycled.
I think the environmental impact of this disaster is likely to have been very, very modest.
There must be a reason why some people can afford to live well. They must have worked for it. I only feel angry when I see waste. When I see people throwing away things we could use.
Without environmental sustainability, economic stability and social cohesion cannot be achieved
Why would anyone believe it is possible to lay down such barrage of poisons on the surface of the earth without making it unfit for all life? They should not be called insecticides, but biocides.
Environmental challenges have the power to deny equality of opportunity and hold back the progress of communities.
Mankind has probably done more damage to the Earth in the 20th century than in all of previous human history.
Global markets must be balanced by global values such as respect for human rights and international law, democracy, security and sustainable economic and environmental development.
In Kenya women are the first victims of environmental degradation, because they are the ones who walk for hours looking for water, who fetch firewood, who provide food for their families.
The sun is the only safe nuclear reactor, situated as it is some ninety-three million miles away.
Waste not the smallest thing created, for grains of sand make mountains, and atomies infinity.
