In the struggle for survival, the fittest win out at the expense of their rivals because they succeed in adapting themselves best… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
The most powerful natural species are those that adapt to environmental change without losing their fundamental identity which gives them their competitive… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
If we do not permit the earth to produce beauty and joy, it will in the end not produce food, either. — Joseph Wood Krutch Copy Share Image
In general, any productive activity which introduces substances foreign to the natural environment runs a considerable risk of polluting it. — Barry Commoner Copy Share Image
What is urgently needed is a bold new move from a consumer economy to a conserver economy in all of the developed… — Richard J. Foster Copy Share Image
Today, more than ever, we need political leaders who can see the big picture, who understand the relationship between the economy and… — Lester R. Brown Copy Share Image
As the former administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency and former governor of New Jersey, I have witnessed the impact of climate… — Christine Todd Whitman Copy Share Image
Like many environmental documentaries, 'Planet of Humans' endorses debunked Malthusian ideas that the world is running out of energy. — Michael Shellenberger Copy Share Image
What can be done? Well, the governments of the world can undertake what amounts to a vast clean-up campaign and a vast… — Immanuel Wallerstein Copy Share Image
Clouds of a different sort signal an environmental holocaust without precedent. Once again, world leaders waffle, hoping the danger will dissipate. Yet… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
Don't get me wrong: I love nuclear energy! It's just that I prefer fusion to fission. And it just so happens that… — William McDonough Copy Share Image
After the doctor's departure Koznyshev felt inclined to go to the river with his fishing rod. He was fond of angling, and… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Environmental scientists also show us clearly that from the environmental and ecological points of view that nuclear war is not preventable. The… — Tadatoshi Akiba Copy Share Image
Another thing I like about German cities - and it's an advantage which they haven't sufficiently exploited yet - is that they… — Charles Landry Copy Share Image
Sustainability at Nike means being laser-focused on evolving our business model to deliver profitable growth while leveraging the efficiencies of lean manufacturing,… — Mark Parker Copy Share Image
The problem with holistic management is it's so profoundly simple, but it's not easy. And it's profoundly simple. You're almost insulting people's… — Allan Savory Copy Share Image
Criticism of growth arose with the discovery that growth beyond a certain point is destructive of the earth. We are already using… — John B. Cobb Copy Share Image
I want to yell about it most days and stop strangers in the street to share my outrage. But my mind is… — Robin Beth Schaer Copy Share Image
We already have the material means to eradicate deep poverty and thereby eradicate hunger. We have the material means to begin the… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
The character of a whole society is the cumulative result of the countless small actions, day in and day out, of millions… — Duane Elgin Copy Share Image
To have some parts flowing free again . . . with deer grazing on its banks . . . ducks and geese… — Stephen Ambrose Copy Share Image
Is he a dread genetic determinist, or a dread environmental determinist? He is neither, of course, for both these species of bogeyman… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The number of people displaced by dams is estimated at between 40 million and 80 million, most of them in China and… — Paul Brown Copy Share Image
The industrial civilisation is based on the consumption of energy resources that are inherently limited in quantity and that are about to… — Richard Heinberg Copy Share Image
The planet is about to break out with fever, indeed it may already have, and we [human beings] are the disease. We… — Thomas Lovejoy Copy Share Image
I think the environmental problem will be the number one item on the agenda of the 21st century... This is a problem… — Mikhail Gorbachev Copy Share Image
Americans increasingly understand that clean energy is more than just an environmental issue. It is crucial to reducing our dangerous dependence on… — Martin Heinrich Copy Share Image
The environmental movement does not always have to be about stopping things. It can be about fixing problems. — Mark Kurlansky Copy Share Image
At every juncture as Oklahoma's attorney general, Scott Pruitt has consistently chosen to undermine and attack environmental safeguards - not to defend… — Amber Valletta Copy Share Image
A changing environment will affect Alaska more than any other state, because of our location. I'm not one though who would attribute… — Sarah Palin Copy Share Image
Have we come all this way, I wondered, only to be dismantled by our own technologies, to be betrayed by political connivance… — Barry Lopez Copy Share Image
Planting and growing increasing quantities of trees is the scientific solution to Earth's environmental dilemma. — Richard St. Barbe Baker Copy Share Image
I wanted to make sure that the environment of the shooting itself was not that controlled, and the way to go about… — Atom Egoyan Copy Share Image
Climate change is happening, humans are causing it, and I think this is perhaps the most serious environmental issue facing us. — Bill Nye Copy Share Image
The position I took at the time was that we hadn't really examined any of the potential environmental consequences of introducing genetically… — Jeremy Rifkin Copy Share Image
Through our deregulatory actions, the Trump Administration has proven that burdensome federal regulations are not necessary to drive environmental progress. — Andrew R. Wheeler Copy Share Image
We have been too kind to those who are killing the planet. We have been inexcusably, unforgivably, insanely kind. — Derrick Jensen Copy Share Image
Stewardship of our air and water is a responsibility that should be free of the bias of politics. What's more, environmental regulators… — Luther Strange Copy Share Image
We need a new environmental consciousness on a global basis. To do this, we need to educate people. — Mikhail Gorbachev Copy Share Image
All our environmental problems become easier to solve with fewer people and harder - and ultimately impossible to solve - with ever… — David Attenborough Copy Share Image