We cannot confront the massive challenges of poverty, hunger, disease and environmental destruction unless we address issues of population and reproductive health — Thoraya Obaid Copy Share Image
People who run environmental groups and things like that, who have to listen to all kinds of nonsense and keep their tempers,… — Sigourney Weaver Copy Share Image
If you gave me several million years, there would be nothing that did not grow in beauty if it were surrounded by… — Jan Erik Vold Copy Share Image
Even as we continue to carry the banner of civil rights and environmental justice, we've also got to focus on many, many… — John Hickenlooper Copy Share Image
If people destroy something replaceable made by mankind, they are called vandals; if they destroy something irreplaceable made by God, they are… — Joseph Wood Krutch Copy Share Image
Facts still matter, and social media is allowing for a wider range of new and independent voices to outcompete alarmist environmental journalism… — Michael Shellenberger Copy Share Image
So, if we decrease the use of carbon dioxide, are we not taking away plant food from the atmosphere? — John Shimkus Copy Share Image
No day is alike - I do many other things, and I'm very active in the environmental movement. — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
If all mankind were to disappear, the world would regenerate back to the rich state of equilibrium that existed ten thousand years… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
Fundamentally, if you look at where the environmental issues are coming from, it's all because of humans and our impact on the… — David Filo Copy Share Image
Who has the right to decide that the supreme value is a world without insects even though it would be a sterile… — Rachel Carson Copy Share Image
Autoimmunity is probably the next frontier. The majority of cases of autoimmune disease result from a complex genetic problem that has environmental… — Bruce Beutler Copy Share Image
Any regeneration project that fails to put environmental and social benefits at its very heart is unlikely to achieve anything more than… — Jonathon Porritt Copy Share Image
The essence of globalization is a subordination of human rights, of labor rights, consumer, environmental rights, democracy rights, to the imperatives of… — Ralph Nader Copy Share Image
We are never far from the lilt and swirl of living water. Whether to fish or swim or paddle, of only to… — John Daniel Copy Share Image
Over increasingly large areas of the United States, spring now comes unheralded by the return of the birds, and the early mornings… — Rachel Carson Copy Share Image
Saint George killed the last dragon, and he was called a hero for it. I've never seen a dragon, and I wish… — A. Whitney Brown Copy Share Image
There can be no solution to the challenge of climate change that is not global. But if we can come together in… — Ban Ki-moon Copy Share Image
We can decide that the presence of cancer-causing substances in our air, water, and food is too expensive. A 2009 study, for… — Sandra Steingraber Copy Share Image
These proven positive consequences of elevated CO2 are infinitely more important than the unsubstantiated predictions of apocalypse that are hypothesized to result… — Keith E. Idso Copy Share Image
By 1990, the EPA had tallied up 32,645 sites of past chemical waste dumping in need of cleanup. Some of these are… — Sandra Steingraber Copy Share Image
A man could be a lover and defender of the wilderness without ever in his lifetime leaving the boundaries of asphalt, powerlines,… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Brothers and Sisters: Our ancient homeland is spotted today with an array of chemical dumps. Along the Niagara River, dioxin, a particularly… — Winona LaDuke Copy Share Image
One of the best ways to properly evaluate and adapt to the many environmental stresses of life is to simply view them… — Denis Waitley Copy Share Image
Citizens and consumers are demanding that climate change and environmental issues be taken seriously. — Isabelle Kocher Copy Share Image
We have 20 years [until 2026] to reduce carbon emissions or climate change will become irreversible. — Hans Joachim Schellnhuber Copy Share Image
During the 1960s, we used twice as much oil as during the 1950s. And in each of those decades, more oil was… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
I like to define biology as the history of the earth and all its life - past, present, and future. — Rachel Carson Copy Share Image
It's not just an economic crisis that capitalism has created. We also face an environmental catastrophe created by a handful of gigantic… — Kshama Sawant Copy Share Image
Many of my contemporaries in the developed world see subsistence farming as soulful and organic, but it is a poverty trap and… — Stewart Brand Copy Share Image
The belief that we can manage the Earth and improve on Nature is probably the ultimate expression of human conceit, but it… — Rene Dubos Copy Share Image
Global warming has already triggered a sea level rise that could reach from 6 metres (19.69 ft) to 25 metres (27.34 yards). — James Hansen Copy Share Image
The gains made by better management and technology are still being outpaced by the environmental impacts of population and economic growth. We… — Klaus Topfer Copy Share Image
We, as a country, have always used innovative technology to advance environmental stewardship, reduction of those pollutants, but also grown our economy… — Scott Pruitt Copy Share Image
We try to invest in companies that are putting together environmental programs and working to improve their overall social and environmental self. — Bob Walker Copy Share Image
No sustainable development, environmental harmony or lasting security will happen if we are unable to eradicate hunger and extreme inequality — Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva Copy Share Image
Man, the cutting edge of terrestrial life, has no rational alternative but to expand the environmental and resource base beyond Earth. — Krafft Arnold Ehricke Copy Share Image
Address these environmental issues and you will address every issue known to man. And we keep dabbling in things that aren't really… — Ted Danson Copy Share Image
Most of what I know about environmental conservation I learned from my father, who has been a leader within the movement for… — Edward Norton Copy Share Image
A person writing at night may put out the lamp, but the words he has written will remain. It is the same… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image