Environmental Quotes
Environmental problems are really social problems anyway. They begin with people as the cause and end with people as the victims
Where the quality of life goes down for the environment, the quality of life goes down for humans.
Climate change is and will be a significant threat to our national security and in a larger sense to life on earth as we know it to be.
There can be no question about whether we should or should not transform our society in the direction of sustainability.
In America today you can murder land for private profit. You can leave the corpse for all to see, and nobody calls the cops.
A river, though, has so many things to say that it is hard to know what it says to each of us.
Dear future generations: Please accept our apologies. We were rolling drunk on petroleum.
I did not become a vegetarian for my health, I did it for the health of the chickens.
Christ wears "two shoes" in the world: scripture and nature. Both are necessary to understand the Lord, and at no stage can creation be seen as a separation of things from God.
Even if smog were a risk to human life, we must remember that life in nature, without technology, is wholesale death.
Have we fallen into a mesmerized state that makes us accept as inevitable that which is inferior or detrimental, as though having lost the will or the vision to demand that which is good?
There is a gyre of discarded floating plastic the size of the continental USA in the ocean. In it, plastic trash outweighs plankton 40 to 1.
There is a great need for the introduction of new values in our society, where bigger is not necessarily better, where slower can be faster, and where less can be more.
It is only logical that the pauperization of our soul and the soul of society coincide with the pauperization of the environment. One is the cause and the reflection of the other.
People will always try to stop you from doing the right thing if it is unconventional.
The quicker we humans learn that saving open space and wildlife is critical to our welfare and quality of life, maybe we'll start thinking of doing something about it.
I feel more confident than ever that the power to save the planet rests with the individual consumer.
Out of all those millions and millions of planets floating around there in space, this is our planet, this is our little one, so we just got to be aware of it and take care of it.
Our biggest national security threat is the environmental destruction of our planet and the arms race with ourselves.
The environmental crisis has deep spiritual, philosophical, and religious roots and causes. It is not merely the result of bad engineering.
Our environmental problems originate in the hubris of imagining ourselves as the central nervous system or the brain of nature. We're not the brain, we are a cancer on nature.
Global warming has already triggered a sea level rise that could reach from 6 metres (19.69 ft) to 25 metres (27.34 yards).
We should have no concern for the environment, because, after the great flood with Noah, God promised that He would never ruin the earth again.
Climate change is for real. We have just a small window of opportunity and it is closing rather rapidly. There is not a moment to lose.
Human destiny is bound to remain a gamble, because at some unpredictable time and in some unforeseeable manner nature will strike back.
Environmental degradation, overpopulation, refugees, narcotics, terrorism, world crime movements, and organized crime are worldwide problems that don't stop at a nation's borders.
If we do not permit the earth to produce beauty and joy, it will in the end not produce food, either.
Do not listen to those who say there is nothing you can do to the very real and large social and environmental issues of our time.
It strikes me as being morally repulsive and intellectually absurd that people die of want in a world of surplus.
Our stewardship of the Earth is brief. We owe it to those who follow to keep that in perspective, to be responsible passengers along the way.
Yet, despite our many advances, our environment is still threatened by a range of problems, including global climate change, energy dependence on unsustainable fossil fuels, and loss of biodiversity.
Environmental justice is the movement to ensure that no community suffers disproportionate environmental burdens or goes without enjoying fair environmental benefits.
If it can’t be reduced, reused, repaired, rebuilt, refurbished, refinished, resold, recycled or composted, then it should be restricted, redesigned or removed from production.
You may think your actions are meaningless and that they won't help, but that is no excuse, you must still act.
