Environmental Quotes · Page 22

Digital content and electronic networks have changed the basic environmental conditionsin which documents are created, distributed, and used.

— Tom Peters

Rivers are places that renew our spirit, connect us with our past, and link us directly with the flow and rhythm of…

— Leo Tolstoy

We humans can look deep into future and predict what will happen, but then turn around and do nothing about it.

— Daniel Gilbert

This Nation has realized significant environmental improvements over the last three decades.

— Jerry Costello

Man not only survives and functions in his environment, he shapes it and he is shaped by it.

— Rene Dubos

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

— David Titley

It is extremely important to me that the social and environmental issues associated with the production of fashion clothing are addressed.

— Bonnie Wright

The government should set a goal for a clean environment but not mandate how that goal should be implemented.

— Dixie Lee Ray

Lady Bird Johnson did more than plant flowers in public places. She served the country superbly by planting environmental values in the…

— Stewart Udall

I stress that I am not attacking Friends of the Earth, Greenpeace, and the environmental movement in general. They have done some…

— David Icke

Corporate globalists and the corporate empires they serve may be at the cutting edge of technological innovation, but socially and environmentally they…

— David Korten

The chattering bloody classes, or what I call the liberal Guardian readers, they're all buying SUVs to drive around London. I smile…

— Michael O'Leary

Each year-in the fields, commercial kitchens, markets, stores, and restaurants-millions of pounds of food go to waste... We need to find ways…

— Dan Glickman

The college idealists who fill the ranks of the environmental movement seem willing to do absolutely anything to save the biosphere, except…

— Anonymous

The environmental effects of the automobile are well known: motor vehicles cause, for example, as much as 75 percent of the noise…

— Stewart Udall

Environmental damage such as graffiti, fly-posting and general littering is a menace that is becoming all too prevalent, not just in inner…

— Margaret Beckett

Americans are finally coming to a point where they're accepting of religious criticism, is because George Bush is the first president who…

— Bill Maher

While the rich reap most of the benefits of technological development, the poor bear an unequal burden of dealing with the consequences…

— James H. Cone

When it comes to acid rain or oil spills or depleted fisheries or tainted groundwater or fluorocarbon propellants or radiation leaks or…

— Benjamin Barber

... placing economic activity in the context of the whole earth requires attention to the question of scale. Bigger is obviously not…

— John B. Cobb

Every one of you sitting here today is carrying at least 500 measurable chemicals in your body that were never in anybody's…

— Theo Colborn

I am beginning to understand that the stream the scientists are studying is not just a little creek. It's a river of…

— Kathleen Moore

While there are many who would say that the race to the moon was hardly green, many others have noted that the…

— John F. Kennedy

We have reached a point where the value we do add to our economy is now being outweighed by the value we…

— Paul Hawken

Civilization’s shortening attention span is mismatched with the pace of environmental problems.

— Stewart Brand

Environmental concern is a phenomena that tends to rise in a nation after a certain level of wealth.

— Ramez Naam

Economies are supposed to serve human ends.. not the other way round. We forget at our peril that markets make a good…

— Amory Lovins

We hope that as a species we're capable of dealing with environmental catastrophe before it actually does collectively kill most of us.

— Moby

The human race is challenged more than ever before to demonstrate our mastery, not over nature but of ourselves.

— Rachel Carson

We would be foolish and silly not to unite with people in the public health sector, the environmental community, [and] unions, to…

— Wayne Pacelle

We want to annoy the whenever we can. The best thing we can do with environmentalists is shoot them.

— Michael O'Leary

While progress should never come to a halt, there are many places it should never come to at all.

— Paul Newman

All we can hope for is that the thing is going to slowly and imperceptibly shift. All I can say is that…

— David Attenborough

Let he who would move the world, first complete an environmental impact assessment and a 90-day public comment period.

— Socrates

We are not truly civilized if we concern ourselves only with the relation of man to man. What is important is the…

— Rachel Carson

Though men now possess the power to dominate and exploit every corner of the natural world, nothing in that fact implies that…

— Edward Abbey

The bulldozer and not the atomic bomb may turn out to be the most destructive invention of the 20th century.

— Philip Shabecoff

If people see how we're all interconnected and connected with Nature, we wouldn't have an environmental crisis, we wouldn't have two dozen…

— Stanley Krippner

The environmental movement's focus on the Keystone XL pipeline issue really used to baffle me.

— Matthew Yglesias

From a planning perspective, economic degradation begets environmental degradation, which begets social degradation.

— Majora Carter