We'll look for almost any reason not to change our attitudes; the inertia of the established order is powerful. If we can… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
Love every leaf, every ray of light. Love the animals, love the plants, love each separate thing. Loving all, you will perceive… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
The pace of consumption, waste and environmental change has so stretched the planet's capacity that our contemporary lifestyle, unsustainable as it is,… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Environmental concern is a phenomena that tends to rise in a nation after a certain level of wealth. — Ramez Naam Copy Share Image
We are facing a tipping point of environmental crisis unprecedented in human history and our very survival is dependent on protecting nature. — Leonardo DiCaprio Copy Share Image
Though environmental orthodoxy holds that Third World deforestation is caused by rapacious clear-cutters and ruthless cattle barons, penniless peasants seeking fuel wood… — Gregg Easterbrook Copy Share Image
Businesses typically look at issues like price, quality, time of delivery. They don't often think about social and environmental impact because they're… — Jerry Greenfield Copy Share Image
Very few people would choose to have even the most fabled assortment of goods if it meant getting cancer within the year.… — Paul L Wachtel Copy Share Image
Every country-or at least every country that is fit for habitation-has its own rivers; and every river has its own quality; and… — Henry Van Dyke Copy Share Image
It is one thing to impose drastic measures and harsh economic penalties when an environmental problem is clear-cut and severe....It is foolish… — Frederick Seitz Copy Share Image
Politicians had always viewed environmental issues as narrow things of no great political consequence. Sort of NIMBY issues. A big part of… — Denis Hayes Copy Share Image
Men may dam it and say that they have made a lake, but it will still be a river. It will keep… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment. — Ansel Adams 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
Dealing with environmental lawsuits and grassroots resistance is expensive. Industrial wind and solar developers have to hire lawyers, public relations specialists, and… — Michael Shellenberger Copy Share Image
All living beings, things that move, are equally important, whether they are human beings, dogs, birds, fish, trees, ants, weeds, rivers, wind… — John Africa Copy Share Image
Perhaps the simplest example is a synthetic plastic, which unlike natural materials, is not degraded by biological decay. It therefore persists as… — Barry Commoner Copy Share Image
Indeed, the quantity of PCBs still in use plus the quantity still languishing in waste dumps exceeds the total amount that has… — Sandra Steingraber Copy Share Image
I began to lead two lives... one being a kid and the other starting to speak internationally about the environment... and advocating… — Severn Cullis-Suzuki Copy Share Image
Environmental protection doesn't happen in a vacuum. You can't separate the impact on the environment from the impact on our families and… — Jim Clyburn Copy Share Image
I found that Steve's passion for wildlife and willingness to lay his life on the line so exciting. What you have in… — Terri Irwin Copy Share Image
The human and environmental devastation caused by nuclear weapons - whether by testing, mistake or malice - is the very reason we… — Valerie Plame Copy Share Image
Every animal that walks the earth, or swims, or flies is precious beyond description, something so rare and wonderful that it equals… — James A. Michener Copy Share Image
We want to find a way to be an environmental leader in motor sports, as well as in sports in general. — Brian France Copy Share Image
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