Environmental Quotes · Page 26

People sometimes don't like organized situations. Sometimes people need to be left alone more. Sometimes people need environmental support.

— Sakyong Mipham

Meat is a tremendous environmental challenge. It contributes enormous amounts of greenhouse gas, especially beef eating.

— Michael Pollan

Local innovation and initiative can help us better understand how to protect our environment.

— Gale Norton

The global environment crisis is, as we say in Tennessee, real as rain, and I cannot stand the thought of leaving my…

— Al Gore

What causes autism? As far as we know in 2013, there is no single gene or single environmental factor that accounts for…

— Thomas R. Insel

We tend to be more environmental at home than at work, regardless of the industry we're in.

— Gale Anne Hurd

You always bump into politics in life, and as a man, I'm party to a number of environmental issues that concern me…

— Pierce Brosnan

O Nature, and O soul of man! how far beyond all utterance are your linked analogies; not the smallest atom stirs or…

— Herman Melville

Organic farming has been shown to provide major benefits for wildlife and the wider environment. The best that can be said about…

— Prince Charles

Cost-effective, attractive to business partners, environmentally friendly, easy access to a wide range of guidance and support - it makes good business…

— Elliot Morley

The disadvantages of a decentralized, spread out urban area are tremendous, and the environmental damage of urban sprawl cannot be ignored. As…

— Minoru Mori

We have a responsibility toward the other life-forms of our planet whose continued existence is threatened by the thoughtless behavior of our…

— Jane Goodall

Later scientific theories are better than earlier ones for solving puzzles in the often quite different environments to which they are applied.…

— Thomas Kuhn

For businesses, biomimicry is about bringing a new discipline - biology - to the design table. It's not to write an environmental…

— Janine Benyus

All of humanity now has the option to "make it" successfully and sustainably, by virtue of our having minds, discovering principles and…

— R. Buckminster Fuller

Because nitrous oxide [released by nitrate-fertilised soil] is 296 times stronger than COâ‚‚ at global warming and methane [cow farts] is about…

— Thom Hartmann

The good news is that there is strong movement in this direction of shifting from domination systems to partnership systems. Over the…

— Riane Eisler

Unrestrained automobility, hedonism, individualism, and conspicuous consumption cannot be sustained because they take more than they give back. A spiritually impoverished world…

— David W. Orr

With time environmental issues got much more complicated. It is pretty easy, if you know what you are doing, to stop a…

— Denis Hayes

Across the continent, on the shores of small tributaries, in the shadows of sacred mountains, on the vast expanse of the prairies,…

— Winona LaDuke

We grow up hearing so often that a straight line is the shortest distance between two points that we end up thinking…

— Thomas W. Horton

Now when you cut a forest, an ancient forest in particular, you are not just removing a lot of big trees and…

— E. O. Wilson

The affluent society has built well in terms of economic progress, but has neglected the protection of the very water we drink…

— Frank Church

It is therefore absurd to approach the subject of health piecemeal with a departmentalized band of specialists. A medical doctor uninterested in…

— Wendell Berry

We ignore slow environmental changes unless they are crisis-driven, such as hurricanes in Florida.

— Natalie Jeremijenko

I do not know much about gods; but I think that the river Is a strong brown god-sullen, untamed and intractable.

— Anonymous

The environmental movement's focus on the Keystone XL pipeline issue really used to baffle me.

— Matthew Yglesias

If people see how we're all interconnected and connected with Nature, we wouldn't have an environmental crisis, we wouldn't have two dozen…

— Stanley Krippner

The bulldozer and not the atomic bomb may turn out to be the most destructive invention of the 20th century.

— Philip Shabecoff

Though men now possess the power to dominate and exploit every corner of the natural world, nothing in that fact implies that…

— Edward Abbey

We are not truly civilized if we concern ourselves only with the relation of man to man. What is important is the…

— Rachel Carson

Let he who would move the world, first complete an environmental impact assessment and a 90-day public comment period.

— Socrates

All we can hope for is that the thing is going to slowly and imperceptibly shift. All I can say is that…

— David Attenborough

While progress should never come to a halt, there are many places it should never come to at all.

— Paul Newman

We want to annoy the whenever we can. The best thing we can do with environmentalists is shoot them.

— Michael O'Leary

We would be foolish and silly not to unite with people in the public health sector, the environmental community, [and] unions, to…

— Wayne Pacelle

The human race is challenged more than ever before to demonstrate our mastery, not over nature but of ourselves.

— Rachel Carson

Climate change is an economic, public health, and environmental issue that we have a moral responsibility to address.

— Brad Schneider

As President Bush has said on numerous occasions, it is the government's role to create the conditions, the friendly environment, that will…

— Donald Evans

Strip the hills, drain the boglands, and you create flood conditions inevitably. Yet that is what we have been doing for years.

— Hal Borland