Environmental Quotes

A holiday gives one a chance to look backward and forward; to reset oneself by an inner compass.

We should end the Environmental Protection Agency's war against American oil and gas.

Premium will increasingly be defined in terms of sustainability and environmental compatibility

When the planes still swoop down and aerial spray a field in order to kill a predator insect with pesticides, we are in the Dark Ages of commerce.

The 20th century peatlands ditching in Finland was the worst human environmental destruction action in Europe.

Nourishment is a factor which touches on the fundamental right to life.

Nature: She pardons no mistakes. Her yea is yea, and her nay, nay.

We only have to capture 1/10,000th of the solar energy landing on earth to completely satisfy all our energy needs.

If you live in a squalid environment, then of course you are going to want to get out of it, you are probably going to want to get into the country, because that's what it does.

Planting and growing increasing quantities of trees is the scientific solution to Earth's environmental dilemma.

Environmental extremists ... wouldn't let you build a house unless it looked like a bird's nest.

Man is a child of his environment

When you live in a networked environment, it's possible to separate data from applications.

The most common trait of all primitive peoples is a reverence for the life-giving earth.

We must use a good deal of economy in our wood, never cutting down new, where we can make the old do.

The planet is about to break out with fever, indeed it may already have, and we [human beings] are the disease. We should be at war with ourselves and our lifestyles.

Given continued high rates of population increase, all environmental victories are temporary.

Thanks to the growing strength of environmental organizations, there will always be some back country to provide us with a touch of wonder and a breath of fresh air.

I'm sure that many people who are involved in an environmental effort ... they will be pretty much encouraged by this recognition.

Source Reduction is to garbage what preventive medicine is to health.

Native communities are focal points for the excrement of industrial society.

People need to be cautious because anything built by man can be destroyed by Mother Nature.

In places where this beauty has already disappeared, we will reconstruct it.

Feeling that morality has nothing to do with the way you use the resources of the world is an idea that can't persist much longer. If it does, then we won't.

In reality, Kyoto was a huge transfer of resources from the United States to the Third World, under the guise of environmental protection.

We are the environment.

Life and the environment are one thing, not two, and people, as all life, are immersed in the one system. When we influence nature, we influence ourselves; when we change nature, we change ourselves.

Our planet has not seen an extinction crisis as serious as the one in progress for 65 million years.

Climate change isn't just an environmental issue; it's a technology, water, food, energy, population issue. None of this happens in a vacuum.

I wanted to be as comfortable in that environment as she was. I moved around those areas in character.

At least if we don't close down the Environmental Protection Agency, we at least put a snaffle bit on them and ride the pony down.

Whoever is gripped by God's spirit turns to his creation with all the interest that comes from God's love.

Love every leaf, every ray of light. Love the animals, love the plants, love each separate thing. Loving all, you will perceive the mystery of God in all.

Once government's objectives were economic growth and social cohesion. Now they are prosperity, fairness and environmental care

Instant-doomsday hyperbole caused the world's attention to focus on the hypothetical threat of global warming to the exclusion of environmental menaces that are real, palpable, and awful right now.

I do not know of any environmental group in any country that does not view its government as an adversary.

Strip the hills, drain the boglands, and you create flood conditions inevitably. Yet that is what we have been doing for years.

We have 20 years [until 2026] to reduce carbon emissions or climate change will become irreversible.

Homage to Michael Snow's environmental sculpture 'Blind.' The film proposes analogies, in imitation of 3 historic montage styles, for three perceptual modes mimed by that work.

Nuclear power will be the Vietnam issue of the 1980s.

I've been a longtime supporter of all sorts of environmental groups.

Even as we continue to carry the banner of civil rights and environmental justice, we've also got to focus on many, many people - for them, life starts with a good job.

We should always measure a government's environmental rhetoric against its environmental record

Environmental issues are on everyone's mind. It's part of our culture now and I can only applaud and laud anyone who is doing what they can and raising awareness.

The purpose of the environmental movement is to establish control over the people.

We are deep at the bottom of this river of time, caught up in the current of the moment where all the rivers rendezvous.

The real strength of the environmental movement is the tens of thousands, even millions of individuals around the world who are really making a difference and they are doing it out of passion.

All of humanity now has the option to "make it" successfully and sustainably, by virtue of our having minds, discovering principles and being able to employ these principles to do more with less.

That, to me, is a kind of brilliant environmental ju-jitsu - using the energy of the market and the profit-motive to get businesses to invest in preserving and improving natural systems.

At the population level, making the world more just and less unequal, while trying to figure out the toxic aspects of the urban environmental will probably help prevent a lot of psychosis.