We are the environment.

All our efforts to defeat poverty and pursue sustainable development will be in vain if environmental degradation and natural resource depletion continue unabated.

— Kofi Annan

Civilization is in no immediate danger of running out of energy or even just out of oil. But we are running out of environment-that…

— Vijay V. Vaitheeswaran

I do comparative studies of climate evolution, and the interactions between planetary atmosphere and surfaces and their radiation environment, and try to understand the…

— David Grinspoon

We accept it as normal that people who have never been on the land, who have no history or connection to the country, may…

— Wade Davis

We are upsetting the atmosphere upon which all life depends. In the late 80s when I began to take climate change seriously, we referred…

— David Suzuki

There is no drop of water in the ocean, not even in the deepest parts of the abyss, that does not know and respond…

— Rachel Carson

In our attempt to make conservation easy, we have made it trivial.

— Aldo Leopold

Professionalism is environmental. Amateurism is anti-environmental. Professionalism merges the individual into patterns of total environment. Amateurism seeks the development of the total awareness of…

— Marshall McLuhan

Nuclear power as a solution to global warming is theoretically possible, but the proliferation problems and accident risks it would create would, I think,…

— Arjun Makhijani

One tragic example of the loss of forests and then water is found in Ethiopia. The amount of its forested land has decreased from…

— Al Gore

I am optimistic globally. So many scientists are working frantically on the reparation of our planet. Unfortunately there are countries who are still destroying…

— Steve Irwin

Sara Scherr and Jeff McNeely have given us a thoughtful, sensible book about a topic of great importance to the world. There is no…

— Ismail Serageldin

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

— Dixie Lee Ray

It is important to allow a broad debate on energy and climate. We must urgently explore realistic ways to address the different scientific, technical…

— Lennart Bengtsson

A changing environment will affect Alaska more than any other state, because of our location. I'm not one though who would attribute it to…

— Sarah Palin