Environmental problems are really social problems anyway. They begin with people as the cause and end with people as the victims — Edmund Hillary Copy Share Image
The earth has continued to change, from rapid climatic changes that have caused the glaciers and the ice sheets to basically bulldoze… — Gordon Hempton Copy Share Image
Well, for starters, we have to do more to create demand for new technologies that can reduce our dependence on foreign oil… — Sherwood Boehlert Copy Share Image
We can at least see that the question is asked, and asked on the basis of a clear recognition that there is… — Rowan Williams Copy Share Image
The problem with water, though, is that the shortfalls don't show up until the very end. You can go on pumping unsustainably… — Lester R. Brown Copy Share Image
Environmental laws give power to the people. Republicans can huff, puff and scream about what they consider strict regulations, but when they… — Daniel Kammen Copy Share Image
There should be more attention paid to scientific research in the ecology area, and I think that such attention to proper environmental… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
On almost every environmental issue I care about, in fact, I've been wrong at one point or another. I used to think… — Ramez Naam Copy Share Image
I believe that in order to tackle the big issues of the world today, like environmental issues, we need everybody's involvement. We… — Michael Franti Copy Share Image
You go into a community and they will vote 80 percent to 20 percent in favor of a tougher Clean Air Act,… — William Ruckelshaus Copy Share Image
The military profession, especially is the long-established great powers, is deeply pessimistic about the likelihood that people and countries will behave well… — Gwynne Dyer Copy Share Image
After the oil spill, I had this strong feeling that if I ever were to be blessed in having children, I never… — Alyssa Milano Copy Share Image
It seems clear at last that our love for the natural world-Nature-is the only means by which we can requite God's obvious… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Nothing living should ever be treated with contempt. Whatever it is that lives, a man, a tree, or a bird, should be… — Elizabeth Goudge Copy Share Image
The most important environmental issue is one that is rarely mentioned, and that is the lack of a conservation ethic in our… — Gaylord Nelson Copy Share Image
Developed and benefited from the unsustainable patterns of production and consumption which have produced our present dilemma. It is clear that current… — Maurice Strong Copy Share Image
The destruction of aquatic ecosystem health, and the increasing water scarcity, are in my opinion the most pressing environmental problems facing human… — Maude Barlow Copy Share Image
If your DNA profile puts you at a higher risk of developing obesity, that doesn't mean it's your fate. You can take… — David Agus Copy Share Image
Our posterity will wonder about our ignorance of things so plain. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Who ever saw his old clothes, - his old coat, actually worn out, resolved into its primitive elements, so that it was… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The philosophy that I have worked under most of my life is that the serious study of natural history is an activity… — Roger Tory Peterson Copy Share Image
I see a lot of individual action when it comes to environmental questions really as a form of politics as a way… — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
If I had to catalog all the moronic plot turns in The Day After Tomorrow, we'd be here until the next ice… — David Edelstein Copy Share Image
Armstrong, sitting in the commander's seat, spacesuit on, helmet on, plugged into electrical and environmental umbilical's, is a man who is not… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
Environmental extremists ... wouldn't let you build a house unless it looked like a bird's nest. — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image