Environmental Quotes

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.

Modern society will find no solution to the ecological problem unless it takes a serious look at its lifestyle.

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.

We are aware only of the empty space in the forest, which only yesterday was filled with trees.

The time is right for electric cars - in fact the time is critical.

If the federal government had been around when the Creator was putting His hand to this state, Indiana wouldn't be here. It'd still be waiting for an environmental impact statement.

My advice to everybody would be to go out as much as possible and deal with social inequality and environmental degradation because these issues are increasingly prescient.

Scientists like Bjorn Lomborg in The Skeptical Environmentalist have, in my opinion, properly nailed environmental extremists for these exaggerated scenarios.

America ships tons of sugar cookies to Denmark and Denmark ships tons of sugar cookies to America. Wouldn't it be more efficient just to swap recipes?

In our rich consumers' civilization we spin cocoons around ourselves and get possessed by our possessions.

Many people talk a lot about environmental preservation, but true greatness lies in putting these principles into practice and actually doing something about it.

It was not until we saw the picture of the earth, from the moon, that we realized how small and how helpless this planet is - something that we must hold in our arms and care for.

Farmers...can no longer keep up with rising demand; thus the outlook is for chronic scarcities and rising prices.

Man, the cutting edge of terrestrial life, has no rational alternative but to expand the environmental and resource base beyond Earth.

...Environmental groups are too often alarmists. They have an awful track record, so they've lost credibility with the public.

I am unapologetic about asking people to connect up their own responsibility for their total environmental footprint and how they decide to procreate and how many children they think are appropriate.

Climate change is not an environmental issue, but much more to do with security and economics

So if we decrease the use of carbon dioxide, are we not taking away plant food from the atmosphere?

The battle we have fought, and are still fighting, for the forests is a part of the eternal conflict between right and wrong.

Living wild species are like a library of books still unread. Our heedless destruction of them is akin to burning the library without ever having read its books.

So, these political activities will create friction in and of themselves, and in this environment of friction there'll be additional violence.

Environmental policy must strike a balance between the earth's best interests and our citizen's pressing needs

To Jane Jacob’s three traditional urban values of civic space, human scale and diversity, the current environmental imperative adds two more: conservation and regionalism.

We know that acid rain has had no significant environmental effect on trees or forests in the United States... It is based on popular myths and half-baked theories.

...when food is shared in a fair way, with solidarity, when no one is deprived, every community can meet the needs of the poorest. Human ecology and environmental ecology walk together.

In a finite world this means that the per capita share of the world's goods must steadily decrease.

These days, most nature photographers are deeply committed to the environmental message

Fast food may appear to be cheap food and, in the literal sense it often is, but that is because huge social and environmental costs are being excluded from the calculations.

In a country where nature has been so lavish and where we have been so spendthrift of indigenous beauty, to set aside a few rivers in their natural state should be considered an obligation.

A 1.5 litres/100km (3 mpg) increase in the auto and light truck fleet is worth 158,968.35 cubic metres (41,994,994.53 US gallons) of oil a day.

Country must confront what he called institutional racism. [We should] create a country which provides economic, social and environmental justice for all.

By cutting critical domestic programs such as education, health, environmental protection, and veterans' services, this budget reveals misplaced priorities.

Celebrate Earth Day! A time to recognize the gains we have made. A time to create new actions to accelerate environmental progress. Protect our planet not only on Earth Day, but everyday!

We cannot confront the massive challenges of poverty, hunger, disease and environmental destruction unless we address issues of population and reproductive health

I wouldn't be happy about being considered a love poet or an environmental - I don't want any of those tags.

The conservation of natural resources is the fundamental problem. Unless we solve that problem it will avail us little to solve all others.

Humans build their societies around consumption of fossil water long buried in the earth, and these societies, being based on temporary resources, face the problem of being temporary themselves.

The fact that the federal government is the nation's greatest environmental villain has not stopped activists from reflexively turning to politicians to “protect the environment.”

Nature always strikes back. It takes all the running we can do to remain in the same place.

Bad news, it's going to be a huge environmental disaster, the oil rig down there in the Gulf of Mexico. The good news is they think now that the oil spill will be diluted by the melting ice caps.

True wisdom consists in not departing from nature and in molding our conduct according to her laws and model.

For every $1 advertisers spend advertising something healthful like apples, they spend $500 advertising junk food.

There are better alternatives... Australia should be exporting its solar technology, not its uranium.

But the only possible guarantee of the future is responsible behavior in the present.

Home is an invention on which no one has yet improved.

That whole environment was just incompatible with my beliefs and my personality. It was a dark time for me.

My mom was an environmental activist in Australia in the late ’60s and ’70s and I guess I’ve inherited that awareness from her.

I wanted to make sure that the environment of the shooting itself was not that controlled, and the way to go about that course was to work with as small a crew as possible.

We are in an environmental crisis which threatens the survival of this nation, and of the world as a suitable place of human habitation.