If you know wilderness in the way that you know love, you would be unwilling to let it go… This is the… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
Many of the environmental rules not only fail to protect the natural environment, they actually increase the damage. — Michael J. Knowles Copy Share Image
Nature's patterns sometimes reflect two intertwined features: fundamental physical laws and environmental influences. It's nature's version of nature versus nurture. — Brian Greene Copy Share Image
The planets environmental woes tend to be overlooked as we scramble for the latest high-tech gizmos - and conveniently ignore their energy… — Sheherazade Goldsmith Copy Share Image
If the bee disappeared off the face of the earth, man would only have four years left to live. — Maurice Maeterlinck Copy Share Image
My efforts in Congress are guided by the belief that environmental preservation and restoration are a critical part of the legacy we… — Sue Kelly Copy Share Image
Fast food may appear to be cheap food and, in the literal sense it often is, but that is because huge social… — Prince Charles Copy Share Image
We're taking climate change seriously. But it's not the only environmental issue that we face as a planet. — Andrew R. Wheeler Copy Share Image
If you really want to define civilization it should be a culture that doesn't destroy its environment. If you burn down the… — Sting Copy Share Image
The most profound and serious indication of the moral implications underlying the ecological problem is the lack of respect for life evident… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
Genetic modification is a very powerful tool. But like any powerful tool, when using it, you have to take into account the… — M. S. Swaminathan Copy Share Image
I decided that now is the time to start doing the things that really interest me and I find important. It was… — Jared Diamond Copy Share Image
The scarcest resource is not oil, metals, clean air, capital, labour, or technology. It is our willingness to listen to each other… — Donella Meadows Copy Share Image
The Chinese have figured out that they have a giant environmental problem. Folks in Beijing, some days, literally can't breathe. Over a… — Joe Biden Copy Share Image
The goal must be to expand ourselves beyond one field of focus and use our improved access to information to solve the… — Naveen Jain Copy Share Image
It is environmental illiteracy and a complete lack of forward thinking to ignore the need to halt and then reverse population growth… — Phil Harding Copy Share Image
The effort to improve the conditions of man, however, is not a task for the few. It is the task of all… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Significantly, God in Genesis 1 pronounces the rest of creation "good" before humanity is created. The psalmist and the prophets Isaiah, Jeremiah,… — Rodney Clapp Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
We have reached a point where the value we do add to our economy is now being outweighed by the value we… — Paul Hawken Copy Share Image
Economic growth and environmental preservation are two sides of the same coin. There's no better illustration of that point than the California… — Terry Tamminen Copy Share Image
We can change our thinking. Rather than viewing the chemical adulteration of our environment and our bodies as the inevitable practice of… — Sandra Steingraber Copy Share Image
The oceans deserve our respect and care, but you have to know something before you can care about it. — Sylvia Earle Copy Share Image
Environmental disaster is the gravest threat to China's continued development. That's according to me, but it is not some wacko view. — James Fallows Copy Share Image
Ecosystems are holy. The word "environmental" is a deadly compromise itself. It's a policy word that lives only in the head, and… — David James Duncan Copy Share Image
There is no place where we can safely store worn-out reactors or their garbage. No place! — David R. Brower Copy Share Image
Environmental laws were not passed to protect our air and water, they were passed to get votes. — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
We recognised that just putting more flights and more passengers into the skies over southeast England wasn't worth the environmental costs we-re… — Theresa Villiers Copy Share Image
If environmental protection efforts continue to lag behind economic growth, pollution will become even more rampant. — Zhou Shengxian Copy Share Image
Since problems spill across borders, security anywhere depends on sustainable development everywhere. — Ban Ki-moon Copy Share Image
Environmental protection doesn't happen in a vacuum. You can't separate the impact on the environment from the impact on our families and… — Jim Clyburn Copy Share Image
My advice to everybody would be to go out as much as possible and deal with social inequality and environmental degradation because… — David Harvey Copy Share Image
Clothing shouldn't be a societal shackle. It should be art and truth and a way for us to show the world what… — Rain Dove Copy Share Image
Only within the moment of time represented by the present century has one species -- man -- acquired significant power to alter… — Rachel Carson Copy Share Image
There's something very environmental about quality. We live in such a disposable society, but real style doesn't change that much. — Elizabeth Rogers Copy Share Image
Invoking Nature always measures the distance we have yet to travel to achieve real progress on environmental issues. — Timothy Morton Copy Share Image
Producing food to eat is the single most destructive environmental activity humans engage in. — Ramez Naam Copy Share Image
Wealth and vegetation go together, and that exacerbates environmental injustice. The poor bear the burden of degraded environments. — Natalie Jeremijenko Copy Share Image
