Environmental Quotes · Page 12

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

— Al Meyerhoff

Source Reduction is to garbage what preventive medicine is to health.

— William Rathje

The whole earth is a living icon of the face of God.

— John of Damascus

There are no articles any more that dream about the cities of tomorrow.

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

To put your hands in a river is to feel the chords that bind the earth together.

— Barry Lopez

Try to leave the Earth a better place than when you arrived.

— Sidney Sheldon

The NFL, sadly, has a fatal environmental problem: It kills its workers.

— Matt Taibbi

It is not man the ecological crisis threatens to destroy but the quality of human life.

— Rene Dubos

I do not know much about gods; but I think that the river Is a strong brown god-sullen, untamed and intractable.

— Anonymous

We tend to be more environmental at home than at work, regardless of the industry we're in.

— Gale Anne Hurd

You always bump into politics in life, and as a man, I'm party to a number of environmental issues that concern me…

— Pierce Brosnan

The global environment crisis is, as we say in Tennessee, real as rain, and I cannot stand the thought of leaving my…

— Al Gore

What causes autism? As far as we know in 2013, there is no single gene or single environmental factor that accounts for…

— Thomas R. Insel

Local innovation and initiative can help us better understand how to protect our environment.

— Gale Norton

Nature is the time-vesture of God that reveals Him to the wise, and hides him from the foolish.

— Thomas Carlyle

People sometimes don't like organized situations. Sometimes people need to be left alone more. Sometimes people need environmental support.

— Sakyong Mipham

Hopelessly uneconomic on any substantial scale, since it requires a conventional power back-up for when the wind stops blowing, forests of wind…

— Nigel Lawson

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

We are now heading down a centuries-long path toward increasing the productivity of our natural capital - the resource systems upon which…

— Paul Hawken

There are social and environmental impacts. You might be working with a factory that underpays its staff or mistreats its workers, or…

— Maria Cornejo

The pineal gland of evolutionarily older animals, such as lizards and amphibians, is also called the 'third' eye. Just like the two…

— Rick Strassman

There's so many issues tied to the meat industry. I mean, social, environmental, humanitarian - all of them. I know that when…

— Maggie Q

And secondly, I would impose a significant state landfill tipping fee and use that tipping fee to fund the billion dollar bond…

— Ed Rendell

In this sometimes turbulent world, the river is a cosmic symbol of durability and destiny; awesome, but steadfast. In this period of…

— Helen Hayes

In a world where millions of human beings live in extreme poverty, die of malnutrition and lack medical care, where pandemics continue…

— Alfred-Maurice de Zayas

Being vegan truly is the secret to my life's joy and peace. I feel physically and spiritually better than I could have…

— Alicia Silverstone

Man has sought to take from the natural world not only that which is necessary for his stability and survival, but often…

— Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I of Constantinople

Tad Homer-Dixon is a rare kind of public intellectual, who combines real expertise with a commitment to communicate to the widest possible…

— Michael Ignatieff

Some recent occurrences such as the BSE disaster and even perhaps - dare I mention it - the present severe weather conditions…

— Prince Charles

Fast food may appear to be cheap food and, in the literal sense it often is, but that is because huge social…

— Prince Charles

I report the assault on nature evidenced in coal mining that tears the tops off mountains and dumps them into rivers, sacrificing…

— Bill Moyers

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

The reality of life is that we are exposed to a multiplicity of toxic substances.

— Al Meyerhoff

By polluting clear water with slime you will never find good drinking water.

— Aeschylus

As we grow older we should become not less radical but more so.

— Margaret Laurence

Environmental justice is vitally important to the mission of Our Revolution.

— Nina Turner

We should end the Environmental Protection Agency's war against American oil and gas.

— Newt Gingrich

I'm into environmental and ecological issues, so maybe that is an avenue to go down.

— Daniel Bryan

Design our world so that we have positive social and environmental side effects.

— Bjarke Ingels

It appears to be a law that you cannot have a deep sympathy with both man and nature.

— Henry David Thoreau