Environmental Quotes

“Clean communities, a healthy citizens.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

Cars don't cause pollution, trees do.

— Ronald Reagan

Environment is stronger than will.

— Paramahansa Yogananda

A man of wisdom delights in water.

— Confucius

We can never have enough of Nature.

— Henry David Thoreau

Man must conquer nature.

— Mao Zedong

Water is the blood in our veins.

— Levi Eshkol

Man maketh a death which Nature never made.

— Edward Young

Trump's ignorance in environmental science is a threat to the entire planet.

— Tom Morello

We make the world we live in and shape our own environment.

— Orison Swett Marden

Smooth runs the water where the brook is deep.

— William Shakespeare

What is the environmental platform of the Republican party? I don't know either.

— Lindsey Graham

The health of our waters is the principle measure of how we live on the land.

— Luna Leopold

There's no longer any surprise in noting that China has grave environmental problems.

— James Fallows

The natural environment sustains the life of all beings universally.

— Dalai Lama

We must develop a better sense of responsibilty towards our total environment

— Jon Wynne-Tyson

Treasure Coast residents know all too well about the crippling impact on both the quality-of-life and economy when environmental disaster strikes.

— Brian Mast

I think my path would have always gone back to or delivered me to wildlife. I think wildlife is just like a…

— Steve Irwin

“SpaceX is in the process of creating the greatest environmental catastrophe I have ever witnessed.”

— Steven Magee

We have a basic notion that unless we find a solution for environmental problems, we will not achieve sustainable growth in the…

— Hiroyuki Watanabe

Just like a single cell, the character of our lives is determined not by our genes but by our responses to the…

— Bruce H. Lipton

Even to your old age and gray hairs I am he, I am he who will sustain you. I have made you…

— Anonymous

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

— Jay Leno

I refuse to stand by and watch as Sen. Tester tries to implement his radical environmental agenda here and kill our coal…

— Matt Rosendale

The irony of environmental opposition to the Keystone XL project is that stopping the pipeline to the U.S. will not stop production…

— John Hoeven

I embrace a Green New Deal; I just think we have to have public-private partnerships if we're going to get there. We…

— Tim Ryan

MPs should be able to debate, amend and approve a mandate for the negotiation of any trade agreement before talks start, based…

— Barry Gardiner

In the 19th century, we devoted our best minds to exploring nature. In the 20th century, we devoted ourselves to controlling and…

— Stephen Ambrose

Women spend 80 cents of every dollar in the marketplace. We could be the most powerful force for economic and environmental change…

— Diane MacEachern

I am not here as a public official, but as a citizen of a troubled world who finds hope in a growing…

— Jimmy Carter

Spain has been massively diverting capital from the private sector into politically favored environmental projects for the better part of a decade...every…

— Ron Paul

It is God's world still. It has been given to man not absolutely, but in trust, that man may work out in…

— Phillips Brooks

Your children should have it impressed upon them that their adult life-style will bear very little resemblance to yours and that they…

— Paul R. Ehrlich

[Barack Obama] was running for Senate and he's saying, I'm not for gay marriage because I'm a Christian. Jump off a bridge!…

— Bill Ayers

Some of the environmental lobbyists of the Western nations are the salt of the earth, but many of them are elitists. They've…

— Norman Borlaug

Industrialized countries have disproportionately more cancers than countries with little or no industry (after adjusting for age and population size). One half…

— Sandra Steingraber

If surface water can be compared with interest income, and non-renewable groundwater with capital, then much of the West was living mainly…

— Marc Reisner

Beside the grand history of the glaciers and their own, the mountain streams sing the history of every avalanche or earthquake and…

— John Muir

Rivers must have been the guides which conducted the footsteps of the first travelers. They are the constant lure, when they flow…

— Henry David Thoreau

There is no gene "for" such unambiguous bits of morphology as your left kneecap or your fingernail. [...] Hundreds of genes contribute…

— Stephen Jay Gould