Environmental Quotes · Page 5

One planet, one experiment.

— Anonymous

Boundaries don't protect rivers, people do.

— Aristotle

I am haunted by waters.

— Norman Maclean

Only to the white man was nature a 'wilderness'.

— Luther Standing Bear

If we save the planet and have a society of inequality, we wouldn't have saved much.

— James H. Cone

I am glad I will not be young in a future without wilderness.

— Aldo Leopold

“A world without forests will likely be a world without humans.”

— Steven Magee

I can find God in nature, in animals, in birds and the environment.

— Pat Buckley

Native communities are focal points for the excrement of industrial society.

— Winona LaDuke

I'm not an environmentalist. I'm an Earth warrior.

— Darryl Cherney

When we realize we can make a buck cleaning up the environment, it will be done!

— Dennis Weaver

We do not know how much of the environmental change is due to human activities and how much [is due] to long-term…

— Freeman Dyson

I felt strong around and always been around people who have very strong environmental convictions.

— Daryl Hannah

We need to be rid of the insane policy of environmentalism. No more 'green', anti-growth, anti-science environmental policy.

— Kesha Rogers

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

There is a great need for the introduction of new values in our society, where bigger is not necessarily better, where slower…

— Gaylord Nelson

Given continued high rates of population increase, all environmental victories are temporary.

— Thomas W. Horton

We're still expecting capitalism to solve problems: 'Maybe if we sell enough oil, we can give some profits to an environmental agency!'…

— Anohni

Only through freedom and environmental experience is it practically possible for human development to occur.

— Anonymous

A nation that fails to plan intelligently for the development and protection of its precious waters will be condemned to wither because…

— Lyndon B. Johnson

To sustain an environment suitable for man, we must fight on a thousand battlegrounds. Despite all of our wealth and knowledge, we…

— Lyndon B. Johnson

If we allow responsible management of our forests and end the nonsense litigation from radical environmental groups, we can get our timber…

— Matt Rosendale

I mean five thousand years ago people emerge out of nowhere -sproing!- with brains and everything and begin wrecking the planet. You'd…

— Douglas Coupland

The trade agreement itself does have labor and environmental protections, but we have to stand for human rights and we have to…

— Barack Obama

There is a growing threat to the environment, to the vegetation, animals, water and air. Sacred Scripture hands us the image of…

— Pope John Paul II

If we bestow but a very little attention to the economy of the animal creation, we shall find manifest examples of premeditation,…

— William Bartram

The manufacture and running of all the world's computers, the toxicity of the hardware mountains that we currently dump on other countries;…

— Tristram Stuart

The Lockean assumption that if we put our labor to it then it becomes our own is totally fallacious. We have to…

— Winona LaDuke

On issue after issue, the polls - and these are not snapshot polls; these are polls over a consistent period of time…

— Katrina vanden Heuvel

We can at least see that the question is asked, and asked on the basis of a clear recognition that there is…

— Rowan Williams

It's not just global warming, it's not just a loss of biodiversity, it's not just the pollution of our oceans and the…

— Leonardo DiCaprio

Humans, like all other creatures, must make a difference; otherwise, they cannot live. But unlike other creatures, humans must make a choice…

— Wendell Berry

Man's history is woven into waterways, for not only did he live beside them, but he used them as highways for hunting,…

— Sigurd F. Olson

Many people have the impression that there is significant scientific disagreement about global climate change. It's time to lay that misapprehension to…

— Naomi Oreskes

Modern man has no real "value" for the ocean. All he has is the most crass form of egoist, pragmatic value for…

— Francis Schaeffer

Indeed the river is a perpetual gala, and boasts each month a new ornament.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

In the created world around us we see the Eternal Artist, Eternal Love at work.

— Evelyn Underhill

I have a private plane. But I fly commercial when I go to environmental conferences.

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

The greatest danger to our future is apathy.

— Jane Goodall

The environmental crisis is all a result of rushing.

— Ed Begley, Jr