Environmental Quotes · Page 50

Ontario's gas tax rebates and infrastructure programs help create sustainable transit to improve quality of life for Ottawa residents with significant environmental…

— Bob Chiarelli

Because we have learned to believe negativity is more realistic, it appears more real than any positive voice.

— Bell Hooks

So long as we are under the illusion that we know best what is good for the earth and for ourselves, then…

— Thomas Berry

The fact is that the rich are getting richer while the poor are being left behind. Women remain under-represented in boardrooms and…

— Richard Quest

With chemicals, it's shoot first and ask questions later.

— Al Meyerhoff

Our schools, like so many parts of our infrastructure, are crumbling across the country. Healing our schools can and should be central…

— Jamaal Bowman

There's a myth out there that you have to genuflect at the altar of quarterly earnings. But it's a false choice that…

— Tom Perez

We've poured our poisons into the world as though it were a bottomless pit.. and we go on gobbling them up. It's…

— Daniel Quinn

If we had kept the vision of interconnectedness, we would not have created the kind of environmental crisis facing the world today.

— Satish Kumar

Our future is like that of the passengers on a small pleasure boat sailing quietly above the Niagara Falls, not knowing that…

— James Lovelock

We will instead have to measure our economy by the health of the ecosystems and human communities where we do our work.

— Wendell Berry

I believe Forbes is an important outlet for broadening environmental journalism beyond the overwhelmingly alarmist approach taken by most reporters, and look…

— Michael Shellenberger

Water is the one substance from which the earth can conceal nothing; it sucks out its innermost secrets and brings them to…

— Jean Giraudoux

The first river you paddle runs through the rest of your life. It bubbles up in pools and eddies to remind you…

— Lynn Culbreath Noel

The environmental crisis arises from a fundamental fault: our systems of production - in industry, agriculture, energy and transportation - essential as…

— Barry Commoner

... these are the two factors that lead to the destruction of our environment: money and time-or to say it another way,…

— Francis Schaeffer

I congratulate NUS for launching a new degree, a bachelor of environmental studies. This is a most timely initiative. One of the…

— Tommy Koh

Economic growth and environmental preservation are two sides of the same coin. There's no better illustration of that point than the California…

— Terry Tamminen

Country must confront what he called institutional racism. [We should] create a country which provides economic, social and environmental justice for all.

— Bernie Sanders

Man, especially in our time, has without hesitation devastated wooded plains and valleys, polluted waters, disfigured the earth's habitat, made the air…

— Pope John Paul II

The Safe Drinking Water Act, the safety provisions of the Clean Water Acts, the Clean Air Act, the Superfund Law - the…

— Josh Fox

Recognizing nuclear as renewable, and saving Diablo Canyon, would be a bold move for Governor Newsom. It would upset his traditional anti-nuclear…

— Michael Shellenberger

Progress does not have to be patented to be worthwhile. Progress can also be measured by our interactions with nature and its…

— Richard Louv

By cutting critical domestic programs such as education, health, environmental protection, and veterans' services, this budget reveals misplaced priorities.

— Dan Lipinski

For the life of me I can't understand why BP couldn't go in at the ocean floor, maybe 10 feet lateral to…

— Phil Gingrey