Environmental Quotes · Page 2

Fifteen percent of Russia badly polluted.

— Vladimir Putin

One planet, one experiment.

— Anonymous

What we do flows from who we are.

— Charles Colson

The ecological crisis is a moral issue.

— Pope John Paul II

Be gentle with the earth.

— Dalai Lama

We are the environment.

— Charles Panati

Go quietly alone, no harm will befall you.

— John Muir

Goodbye from the world's biggest polluter.

— George W. Bush

Our posterity will wonder about our ignorance of things so plain.

— Seneca the Younger

Everyone should ride the bus so that I can drive.

— Charles Montgomery

Population growth is the primary source of environmental damage.

— Jacques Yves Cousteau

They kill good trees to put out bad newspapers.

— James G. Watt

The universe is a communion of subjects, not a collection of objects.

— Thomas Berry

The purpose of the environmental movement is to establish control over the people.

— Kent Hovind

It's never been proven that air toxics are hazardous to people.

— Tom DeLay

You may be able to fool the voters, but not the atmosphere.

— Donella Meadows

Between the late 1950s and the late 1980s, more than 750 million tons of chemical wastes were discarded.

— Sandra Steingraber

The rapids beat below the boat Deep in the heart of the land Feel the pulse of the river in the pulse…

— Lynn Culbreath Noel

I think every discovery of the world plunges us into jubilation, a radical amazement that tears apart the veil of triviality.

— Judy Cannato

Switching to light-coloured roofs and roadways would have the equivalent effect on greenhouse gas emissions to taking one billion cars off the…

— Steven Chu

Scientists like Bjorn Lomborg in The Skeptical Environmentalist have, in my opinion, properly nailed environmental extremists for these exaggerated scenarios.

— Michael Shermer

I really believe in the environmental movement right now - it only takes a little effort to make a big difference.

— Brooke Burke

Stan Slaughter is the thoroughbred of the environmental educators I've hired. Second place is not even close.

— Mike Patton

Well, for starters, we have to do more to create demand for new technologies that can reduce our dependence on foreign oil…

— Sherwood Boehlert

“The Environmental Protection Agency is conducting a seven-hundred-thousand-dollar study to see if Alaskan trees are polluting Oregon forests. You can tell Republicans…

— Jay Leno

The real work of planet-saving will be small, humble, and humbling, and (insofar as it involves love) pleasing and rewarding. Its jobs…

— Wendell Berry

House Republican leaders voted more than 300 times to undermine environmental safeguards since 2011, but almost none of these measures became law…

— Frances Beinecke

The only way major change in environmental policy is going to happen, the only way, is if there is a very strong,…

— Dale Jamieson

When it occurs to a man that nature does not regard him as important, and that she feels she would not maim…

— Stephen Crane

There's no more delicious irony on the face of the Earth than environmental protesters being led away in plastic handcuffs that have…

— Dennis Miller

Air pollution is not merely a nuisance and a threat to health. It is a reminder that our most celebrated technological achievements-the…

— Barry Commoner

I hope that in future Congresses there will reemerge a recognition that climate change is a reality, that our policies to meet…

— Jeff Bingaman

We certainly would resolve the problems of the charities that are working in areas where they can do the most good. So…

— Peter Singer

Concern for the fate of the great rivers of the earth must lead us to reflect soberly on the model of development…

— Pope Benedict XVI

The real wealth of the Nation lies in the resources of the earth soil, water, forests, minerals, and wildlife. To utilize them…

— Rachel Carson

The assumption is that people so ignorant and thoughtless and silly and greedy may simply call upon the Army Corps of Engineers…

— Wendell Berry

The term 'human rights' has been too often associated with conditionality, and with concerns of developing countries that in order to benefit…

— Mary Robinson

We should stop the non-scientific, pseudo-scientific, and anti-scientific nonsense emanating from the right wing, and start demanding immediate action to reduce global…

— Edward Kennedy

An important United Nations environmental conference went past 6:00 in the evening when the interpreters' contracted working conditions said they could leave.…

— Daniel Yergin

Contempt for science could perhaps depend on the fact that, science hasn't been able to solve any of our basic problems, for…

— Bjorn Ulvaeus