Environmental Quotes · Page 20

We are facing a tipping point of environmental crisis unprecedented in human history and our very survival is dependent on protecting nature.

— Leonardo DiCaprio

Our stewardship of the Earth is brief. We owe it to those who follow to keep that in perspective, to be responsible…

— George H. W. Bush

Pornography and violence are by-products of societies in which private identity has been ... destroyed by sudden environmental change.

— Marshall McLuhan

Providing a real way to deal with the urgent needs of environmental issues that is accessible to everyone is the new fight…

— Philippe Starck

Unless man can make new and original adaptations to his environment as rapidly as his science can change the environment, our culture…

— Carl Rogers

I had never been able to get a car that said how much I cared about the environment until I drove electric.

— Alexandra Paul

If you look at the history of other movements, whether Civil Rights or environmental rights, these are all decades-long undertakings.

— Mitch Kapor

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

— Bernie Sanders

Celebrate Earth Day! A time to recognize the gains we have made. A time to create new actions to accelerate environmental progress.…

— Ciaran Lynch

I congratulate NUS for launching a new degree, a bachelor of environmental studies. This is a most timely initiative. One of the…

— Tommy Koh

Architects in the past have tended to concentrate their attention on the building as a static object. I believe dynamics are more…

— Anonymous

“The Industrial Revolution appears to be in its final stages and it will be remembered as a time where industrial stock markets…

— Steven Magee

I would wager that my job has helped save our economy from the economic ravages of out-of-control environmental extremism. I view my…

— Roy Spencer

It seems to me that there must be an ecological limit to the number of paper pushers the earth can sustain, and…

— Barbara Ehrenreich

Dig a trench through a landfill and you will see layers of phone books like geographical strata or layers of cake… During…

— William Rathje

People blame their environment, their education, their opportunities, their luck, for their condition. They are wrong. There is one person to blame…

— Robert Collier

Ambient means the natural center or atmosphere of a space. All music has that in it- a space or center. I think…

— Bill Laswell

We don't tend to ask where a lake comes from. It lies before us, contained and complete, tantalizing in its depth but…

— John Daniel

Many of us regard ourselves as mildly liberal or centrist politically, voice fairly pleasant sentiments about our poor children, contribute money to…

— Jonathan Kozol

Humanity today is rightly concerned about the ecological balance of tomorrow. It is important for assessments in this regard to be carried…

— Pope Benedict XVI

What, then, is the effect of pesticides? Pesticides have created a legacy of pain, and misery, and death for farm workers and…

— Cesar Chavez

Here in the Great Lakes region, a fourth year in a row of declining water levels has caused millions of dollars in…

— Timothy Egan

A lot of environmental and biological science depends on technology to progress. Partly I'm talking about massive server farms that help people…

— Annalee Newitz

As currently written, the laws require certain manufacturers and users of such chemicals to report any and all environmental releases-either accidental or…

— Sandra Steingraber

The global industrial economy is the engine for massive environmental degradation and massive human (and nonhuman) impoverishment.

— Derrick Jensen

Even if smog were a risk to human life, we must remember that life in nature, without technology, is wholesale death.

— Ayn Rand

Wear the badge of environmental radicalism, and you're a citizen automatically under suspicion.

— Alexander Cockburn

A river is the cosiest of friends. You must love it and live with it before you can know it.

— George William Curtis

Do not listen to those who say there is nothing you can do to the very real and large social and environmental…

— Maude Barlow

The societies of consumption and squandering of material resources are incompatible with the idea of economic growth and a clean planet.

— Fidel Castro

Science and education, when devoid of a social conscience or environmental and human concern, are meaningless.

— Jacque Fresco

I wanted to help raise awareness, so I created an environmental foundation called Just Within Reach.

— Kevin Richardson

The roots of the grass strain, Tighten, the earth is rigid, waits-he is waiting- And suddenly, and all at once, the rain!

— Archibald MacLeish

I've known rivers: I've known rivers ancient as the world and older than the flow of human blood in human veins. My…

— Langston Hughes

In the auto industry, there's one thing you can always count on: if a new environmental or safety rule is proposed, executives…

— James Surowiecki

A brook can be a friend in a special way. It talks to you with splashy gurgles. It cools your toes and…

— Joan Walsh Anglund

Almost all these hotspots around the world, most have been destroyed to the point where there is no wildlife and very little…

— Jim Fowler

A strong, successful man is not the victim of his environment. He creates favorable conditions. His own inherent force and energy compel…

— Orison Swett Marden

Sustainable South Bronx advocates for environmental justice through sustainable environmental and economic development projects.

— Majora Carter

The environmental crisis has deep spiritual, philosophical, and religious roots and causes. It is not merely the result of bad engineering.

— Seyyed Hossein Nasr