Population growth is exceeding farmers' ability to keep up...Our oldest enemy, hunger, is again at the door. — Lester R. Brown Copy Share Image
The Body Shop Foundation is run by our staff and supports social activism and environmental activism. We don't tend to support big… — Anita Roddick Copy Share Image
Water is the one substance from which the earth can conceal nothing; it sucks out its innermost secrets and brings them to… — Jean Giraudoux Copy Share Image
Raising awareness on the most pressing environmental issues of our time is more important than ever. — Leonardo DiCaprio Copy Share Image
Environmentalism is a form of pagan fundamentalism. These green wackos are fanatics like al-Quaida. Just like them. — G. Gordon Liddy Copy Share Image
Our future is like that of the passengers on a small pleasure boat sailing quietly above the Niagara Falls, not knowing that… — James Lovelock Copy Share Image
In every case, the environmental hazards were made known only by independent scientists, who were often bitterly opposed by the corporations responsible… — Barry Commoner Copy Share Image
The battle we have fought, and are still fighting, for the forests is a part of the eternal conflict between right and… — John Muir Copy Share Image
The recent upsurge of public concern over environmental questions reflects a belated recognition that man has been too cavalier in his relations… — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
If you are lucky enough to never experience any sort of adversity, we won't know how resilient you are. It's only when… — Maria Konnikova Copy Share Image
As we pursue our strategies world-wide, we accept a social and environmental responsibility as well. These responsibilities include the promotion of a… — John F. Smith Jr Copy Share Image
Can we afford clean water? Can we afford rivers and lakes and streams and oceans which continue to make possible life on… — Edmund Muskie Copy Share Image
How far must suffering and misery go before we see that even in the day of vast cities and powerful machines, the… — Paul Sears Copy Share Image
However it is achieved, a thorough reorganisation of production, consumption and distribution will be the end result of humanity's response to the… — Walden Bello Copy Share Image
"Thank You for Being Late" pinpoints 2007 as the year what he calls the, quote, great acceleration began, ushering in a dizzying… — Mary Matalin Copy Share Image
For too much of history, we've viewed the world's precious resources - both environmental and human - as things to extract, to… — Jacqueline Novogratz Copy Share Image
To build enormous palaces, to conquer or to mimic nature, to ransack the world in order to gratify the passions of a… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
Industrial agriculture now accounts for over half of America's water pollution. Two years ago, Pfiesteria outbreaks connected with wastes from industrial chicken… — Robert F. Kennedy, Jr Copy Share Image
Many environmentalists have failed to recognize that the preservation of quiet areas, places off-limits to noise pollution, should probably be a number-one… — Gordon Hempton Copy Share Image
“The world has a very serious problem, my friend' Shiva went on. 'Poor children still die by their millions. Westerners and the… — Ramez Naam Copy Share Image
To the greatest extent possible, I try to make choices that involve the least amount of cruelty and environmental damage. I'm interested… — Vesanto Melina Copy Share Image
Because past environmental destruction was the result of ignorance, we can easily forgive it. Today, we are better informed. Therefore, it's essential… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Our time on earth and our energy, intelligence, opportunities, relationships, and resources are all gifts from God that he has entrusted to… — Rick Warren Copy Share Image
I've also been documenting an unsustainable way of life. And you see in peoples' stories that this world of consumerism does not… — Lauren Greenfield Copy Share Image
I want Canada to be the country that is the best in the world at combining economic growth, social justice and environmental… — Stephane Dion Copy Share Image
My lens of choice was always the 35 mm. It was more environmental. You can't come in closer with the 35 mm. — Annie Leibovitz Copy Share Image
If there are more and more environmental refugees, they are going to end up on your doorstep too. — Nina Fedoroff Copy Share Image
Have we failed to slow global warming pollution in part because climate and environmental activists have been too polite and well behaved? — Jeff Goodell Copy Share Image
Parking's expensive, so I walk or ride my bike, which is good because my girlfriend's getting her PhD as an environmental engineer. — Chaz Bundick Copy Share Image
The modern assault on the environment began about 50 years ago, during and immediately after World War II. — Barry Commoner Copy Share Image
The Endangered Species Act is the strongest and most effective tool we have to repair the environmental harm that is causing a… — Norm Dicks Copy Share Image
We should always measure a government's environmental rhetoric against its environmental record — John Key Copy Share Image
The same mentality that leads to environmental despoliation, environmental destruction, also leads to damage to people. — Naomi Oreskes Copy Share Image
We used to think that energy and water would be the critical issues for the next century. Now we think water will… — Mostafa Kamal Tolba Copy Share Image
In a flat choice between smoke and jobs, we're for jobs... But just keep me out of trouble on environmental issues. — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
There is a great need for the introduction of new values in our society, where bigger is not necessarily better, where slower… — Gaylord Nelson Copy Share Image
We're still expecting capitalism to solve problems: 'Maybe if we sell enough oil, we can give some profits to an environmental agency!'… — Anohni Copy Share Image
Given continued high rates of population increase, all environmental victories are temporary. — Thomas W. Horton Copy Share Image
Only through freedom and environmental experience is it practically possible for human development to occur. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Sometimes luck is with you, and sometimes not, but the important thing is to take the dare. Those who climb mountains or… — David R. Brower Copy Share Image
