Environmental Quotes

How endless is that volume which God hath written of the world! Every creature is a letter, every day a new page.

The IPCC - and all the mainstream media and environmental extremists who cite it uncritically - really have become a joke in the scientific community.

I think that people do things for a reason - that we have mental illness, that we have genetic wiring that can get triggered by certain environmental factors.

The right to have children should be a marketable commodity, bought and traded by individuals but absolutely limited by the state.

We need to be rid of the insane policy of environmentalism. No more 'green', anti-growth, anti-science environmental policy.

The organization and the environment are in concert.

He who knows he has enough is rich.

The "hole in the moral ozone" is really what's behind the hole in the ozone.

Global food insecurity is increasing...the slim excess of growth in food production over population is narrowing.

Yet, most of the readily accessible reserves of oil formed over hundreds of millions of years will be consumed within a single generation, spanning the years from 1960 to 1995.

Global warming threatens the survival of our species.

It took Britain half the resources of the planet to achieve its prosperity; how many planets will a country like India require?

Success is not a function of individual talent. It's the steady accumulation of advantages. It's bound up in so many other broader circumstantial, environmental, historical, and cultural factors.

There seems in most countries to be either one extreme or the other. Truly a paradise could exist wherever material progress and spiritual values could be properly balanced.

My parents were gardeners themselves, and perforce they used environmental techniques because it was during the war, and you didn't have the new sorts of chemicals.

We must conserve our environment and pass it on to our children in as good or better condition than it was passed to us.

My kids get very upset with me when I leave to do film work, but they have a lot of patience with me when I leave to do environmental work.

If the Chinese business community takes the Declaration of Human Rights, core labor standards, and environmental standards seriously, the government of China will take them far more seriously, too.

Simple determinism, whether of the genetic or environmental kind, is a depressing prospect for those with a fondness for free will.

We need to find three Saudi Arabias just to offset [the] decline.

One of the things that Ive always thought I would like to do is to develop an environmental index. Then people can measure their own environmental performance on an index as they do in other ways.

Meat is a tremendous environmental challenge. It contributes enormous amounts of greenhouse gas, especially beef eating.

Because of the complexity of the problem, environmental skepticism was once tenable. No longer. It is time to flip from skepticism to activism.

Who so hath his mind on taking, hath it no more on what he taketh.

What we are seeing here is environmental injustice

It is really important to solve the problem of rational utilization and distribution of wate supplies. I dare say, the shortage of fresh water is the major ecological problem of this moment.

We hope that as a species we're capable of dealing with environmental catastrophe before it actually does collectively kill most of us.

The same mentality that leads to environmental despoliation, environmental destruction, also leads to damage to people.

There are no articles any more that dream about the cities of tomorrow.

There are all the activist groups on every imaginable topic - solidarity groups, environmental and feminist groups - sectors of these movements do very valuable work.

A careful reading of 50 Simple Things leaves you wondering whether you're going to die from environmental disaster or intellectual annoyance. Failing either, you can worry yourself to death.

While progress should never come to a halt, there are many places it should never come to at all.

Musicians have made incredible contributions to the conservation and environmental movement and continue to do so, more than ever.

Putting the AR movement directly in opposition to the environmental movement, which should be our natural allies in fighting human arrogance and domination of the planet.

There is no one subsists by himself alone.

We have endorsements of our plan from key leaders within the environmental movement. That doesn't mean that it includes the whole environmental movement.

I think the environmental movement is now so large and diverse that it's hard to talk of it as a single entity.

We can't just tack on environmental balance to a fundamentally imbalanced system.

The only way you can estimate environmental influences is by measuring them.

What is urgently needed is a bold new move from a consumer economy to a conserver economy in all of the developed countries, and particularly in the United States.

In a flat choice between smoke and jobs, we're for jobs... But just keep me out of trouble on environmental issues.

Is it possible that the environmental severity of the 1930s induced-particularly in the most aware, alert, and compassionate of [British] men-a morality which makes no sense today?

Environmental regulation looked like it was going to be under serious attack, and they were giving all of those speeches about getting government off people's backs.

Cars don't cause pollution, trees do.

I grew up a squatter on the Lower East Side, so it's kind of a given that I'd have very strong opinions on everything from cyclical violence to teenage pregnancy to environmental justice.

Climate change and energy use are global problems - News Corp is a global company. Our operations affect the environment all over the world.

The twentieth century seems afflicted by a gigantic... power failure. Powerlessness and the sense of powerlessness may be the environmental disease of the age.

I think we are very environmental people. We need to be supported environmentally. Books very much have that imprint on the mind.

Between the late 1950s and the late 1980s, more than 750 million tons of chemical wastes were discarded.

I have come to believe that extracting natural gas from shale using the newish technique called hydrofracking is the environmental issue of our time. And I think you should, too.