Environmental Quotes

An economy that adds value through information, ideas, and intelligence-the Three I Economy-offers a way out of the apparent clash between material growth and environmental resources.

Parking's expensive, so I walk or ride my bike, which is good because my girlfriend's getting her PhD as an environmental engineer.

In an ideal world, entertainment would be regarded as what it is - entertainment - and wouldn't be valued more heavily than education, than science, than environmental awareness.

Many environmental questions are in a deep way philosophical, despite our penchant for treating them as if they were only technological, economic, or whatever.

Life has had to deal with environmental change, especially climate change, since the beginning of its existence on Earth.

We humans can look deep into future and predict what will happen, but then turn around and do nothing about it.

Shipping by sea produces 1/60 the emissions of shipping by air and about 1/5 that of trucking.

I felt strong around and always been around people who have very strong environmental convictions.

Democrats in environmental agencies tend to be more sensitive to environmental harm. And Republicans tend to be more sensitive to business harm.

The focus of environmental ethics should indeed be on the virtues and how these inform our relationship to natural environments.

What's now urgently needed [to stop environmental disaster] is the international political commitment to take action to avoid dangerous climate change.

In the future, every industry should be an environmental industry. In a world where energy and carbon emissions are constrained, every business must take resource productivity seriously

Canada, more than any nation, will be affected by rising sea levels from global warming.

Although they [light and medium trucks] have only 5% of the transportation market..., they account for fully 35% of greenhouse gas emissions from freight transportation.

There really wasn't an environmental movement 30 years ago. The Sierra Club national office in 1969 consisted of one full-time volunteer.

If you drill, there's going to be a spill. It's axiomatic.

We need to be accountable to God's family. Once we start living in a way that is people-friendly to all of God's family, we will also be environment-friendly.

According to leading researchers, however, only about 10 to 15 percent of cancers are genetic in origin; the rest are caused by a combination of environmental and lifestyle factors.

Sharks are just evil bastards. I'm quite happy if all the sharks just went, because they eat fish and us. And we need the fish.

It seems clear at last that our love for the natural world-Nature-is the only means by which we can requite God's obvious love for it.

Most of what I know about environmental conservation I learned from my father, who has been a leader within the movement for over 30 years.

There's something very environmental about quality. We live in such a disposable society, but real style doesn't change that much.

At every turn, when humanity is asked the question, 'Do you want temporary economic gain or long-term environmental loss, which one do you prefer,' we invariably choose the money.

House Republican leaders voted more than 300 times to undermine environmental safeguards since 2011, but almost none of these measures became law because Americans pushed back.

It is one thing to impose drastic measures and harsh economic penalties when an environmental problem is clear-cut and severe...

We do not know how much of the environmental change is due to human activities and how much [is due] to long-term natural processes over which we have no control.

We are told that when Jehovah created the world he saw that it was good what would he say now

What better comfort have we, or what other Profit in living Than to feed, sobered by the truth of Nature, Awhile upon her beauty, And hand her torch of gladness to the ages Following after?

Obviously, nu-que-lar power is, uh, a renewable source of energy, and the less demand there is for non-renewable sources of energy, like fossil fuels, the better it off it is for the American people.

We have enough coal to last for 250 years, yet coal also prevents an environmental challenge.

A different world can be created or re-created-but not until we stop enshrining the economic values of invisible labor, infinite and obsessive growth, and a slow environmental suicide.

The doubling of oil prices ... is creating a more difficult environment in which to act.

CO₂ emissions anywhere threaten civilisation everywhere.

The real requirement, if we are to avoid runaway global warming, is probably 80% by 2030, and almost no burning whatever of fossil fuels (coal, gas and oil) by 2050.

The environmental community has an opportunity to create and leverage partnerships with the development community on social issues, rather than trying to develop new expertise of its own.

The environmental movement could do a better job incorporating the message about the connection between poverty and environmental degradation, and building that message at the grassroots level.

It is pleasant to have been to a place the way a river went.

Blessed are they who never read a newspaper, for they shall see Nature, and through her, God.

California is, in many respects, best understood as a nation-state. In the environmental-energy realm, California possesses far-reaching legal authorities that other states do not.

In parts of Montana, salt concentrations in soil water, have reached those double those of seawater.

There's very good evidence that the average cat in Europe has a larger environmental footprint in its lifetime than the average African.

According to Time magazine, global warming is 33% worse than we thought. You know what that means? Al Gore is one-third more annoying than we thought.

For me, the term "psychotherapy" is limiting. It implies that we work with mind and emotions, but excludes the body and pays scant attention to the spirit, soul, and broader environmental issues.

Now our biggest environmental problems come from our own actions, our own choices, rather than pollution produced by big business.

We forced Richard Nixon and the Congress who established, and thanks to your leadership, we supported you and we got the Environmental Protection Act and Agency.

Birds are extremely valued as indicators of overall environmental health. If there's a problem in a wild bird population, it's indicative that something went wrong.

During the 1960s, we used twice as much oil as during the 1950s. And in each of those decades, more oil was consumed than in all of mankind's previous history.

Nature does not pile up 1000 hogs, then hope for the best.

Our nation has both an obligation and self-interest in facing head-on the serious environmental, economic and national security threat posed by global warming.

It's not enough simply to wear the badge of corporate responsibility. Business must accept that real change is the only response to climate change and other environmental crises