Environmental Quotes · Page 43

Sunlight and wind are inherently unreliable and energy-dilute. As such, adding solar panels and wind turbines to the grid in large quantities…

— Michael Shellenberger

We will look upon the earth and her sister planets as being with us, not for us.

— Mary Daly

If the U.S. fails to set the rules for global trade, then other countries with records of environmental and labor abuses, like…

— Mike Quigley

Overconsumption and overpopulation underlie every environmental problem we face today

— Jacques Yves Cousteau

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

— Matthew Yglesias

I want to think I deserve what I get. I don't want to consider how vastly I am overly rewarded. I don't…

— William Kittredge

Throughout Africa, as in much of the world, women are responsible for tilling the fields, deciding what to plant, nurturing the crops,…

— Kerry Kennedy

The budget for nuclear forces in the United States is on the order of $25 billion or so. That includes warheads, delivery…

— John Burroughs

For three decades and longer we have been developing the ideas, science, and technological wherewithal to build a sustainable society. The public…

— David W. Orr

[T]he great champion of the opponents of liberty, namely communism, had to find some other place to go and they basically went…

— Harrison Schmitt

I am not fighting machinery as such, but the madness of thinking that machinery saves labor. Men save labor until thousands of…

— Mahatma Gandhi

Unprecedented technological capabilities combined with unlimited human creativity have given us tremendous power to take on intractable problems like poverty, unemployment, disease,…

— Muhammad Yunus

In every case, the environmental hazards were made known only by independent scientists, who were often bitterly opposed by the corporations responsible…

— Barry Commoner

My entry into the environmental arena was through the issue that so dramatically - and destructively - demonstrates the link between science…

— Barry Commoner

It is about time that the religious and environmental faithful joined forces. No one wins when divisive politics pits the right to…

— Alex Bruce

The language 'It's too late' is very unsuitable for most environmental issues. It's too late for the dodo and for people who've…

— Jeremy Grantham

For the U.S., I think we should have a carbon tax, for environmental reasons.

— Tyler Cowen

Water is H2O, hydrogen two parts, oxygen one, but there is also a third thing, that makes it water and nobody knows…

— D. H. Lawrence

Injection of environmental and political perspectives in midstream of the science discussion cannot help the process of inquiry. I believe that persons…

— James Hansen

Global warming may be a 'crisis,' even 'the most pressing environmental problem of our time.' ... Indeed, it may ultimately affect nearly…

— John Roberts

Much guilt arises in the life of the believer from practicing the chameleon life of environmental adaptation.

— Beth Moore

“Teach your children what we have taught our children, that the earth is our mother. Whatever befalls the earth befalls the sons…

— Suquamish Chief Chief Seattle

Everyone, rich or poor, deserves a shelter for the soul, architects should lead in procuring social and environmental change.

— Samuel Mockbee

Lets make it known that we don't want to give away our beautiful homeland to corporate interests. It is our right as…

— Grimes

Liberalism had come to mean spending more on everything-speech police, failed poverty programs that reward dependence, a bigger nanny state telling us…

— John Stossel