I see humanity now as one vast plant, needing for its highest fulfillment only love, the natural blessings of the great outdoors,… — Luther Burbank Copy Share Image
I firmly believe that we can have a healthy environment and a sustainable timber industry. — Frank Murkowski Copy Share Image
I do not know of any environmental group in any country that does not view its government as an adversary. — Gro Harlem Brundtland Copy Share Image
Everyone, rich or poor, deserves a shelter for the soul, architects should lead in procuring social and environmental change. — Samuel Mockbee Copy Share Image
Birds are extremely valued as indicators of overall environmental health. If there's a problem in a wild bird population, it's indicative that… — Jim Elliot Copy Share Image
Population, when unchecked, goes on doubling itself every 25 years or increases in a geometrical ratio. — Thomas Malthus Copy Share Image
The future belongs to those who understand that doing more with less is compassionate, prosperous, and enduring, and thus more intelligent, even… — Paul Hawken Copy Share Image
Many people talk a lot about environmental preservation, but true greatness lies in putting these principles into practice and actually doing something… — Mata Amritanandamayi Copy Share Image
The clearest evidence that we are living beyond environmental means is the threat of dangerous climate change. The scale of this threat,… — David Miliband Copy Share Image
Every human should have the idea of taking care of the environment, of nature, of water. So using too much or wasting… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
'Being green' is commendable, but I hope that people don't take too much pride and self-adoration because they shut off the water… — Naveen Jain Copy Share Image
“Pick a leader who is strong and confident, yet humble. Intelligent, but not sly. A leader who encourages diversity, not racism. One… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
To drown a river beneath its own impounded water, by damming, is to kill what it was and to settle for something… — David Quammen Copy Share Image
In a few decades, the relationship between the environment, resources and conflict may seem almost as obvious as the connection we see… — Wangari Maathai Copy Share Image
Kyoto protocol is not a simple environmental issue, where you can say scientists are not unanimous. This is about international relations, this… — Margot Wallstrom Copy Share Image
Because glass is at once structural and transparent, it is relatively easy to consider the integration of structural and environmental building performance… — Neri Oxman Copy Share Image
Global warming is not a threat. But environmentalism's response to it is…Even if global warming is a fact, the free citizens of… — George Reisman Copy Share Image
The good news about fresh water is that, even after accounting for the larger volume of water that is unavailable to people… — Gilbert F. White Copy Share Image
We're seeing the reality of a lot of the North Pole starting to evaporate, and we could get to a tipping point.… — Henry Waxman Copy Share Image
While the law [of competition] may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it insures the… — Andrew Carnegie Copy Share Image
It is a fact that the entire Kentucky River system, which the central part of the state complacently depends upon for its… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Complex organisms cannot be construed as the sum of their genes, nor do genes alone build particular items of anatomy or behavior… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
So it is fair to ask, why not address the threat of climate change when it is still possible? Asad Rehman, of… — Amy Goodman Copy Share Image
Additional federal studies are under way to see if any contamination reaches taps or ground water used for drinking, but the program… — Andrew Revkin Copy Share Image
A strong player, which has the sufficient critical mass, can withhold pressure better and create a more stable environment that benefits shareholders… — Lakshmi Mittal Copy Share Image
Our overriding environmental challenge tonight is the worldwide problem of climate change, global warming, the gathering crisis that requires worldwide action. — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
I tell my environmental friends that they have won. Every issue we look at from an energy perspective is now also looked… — Joe Barton Copy Share Image
It's clear that agriculture, done right, is the best means the world has today to simultaneously tackle food security, poverty and environmental… — Irene Rosenfeld Copy Share Image
Children of a culture born in a water-rich environment, we have never really learned how important water is to us. We understand… — William Ashworth Copy Share Image
The trees reflected in the river - they are unconscious of a spiritual world so near to them. So are we. — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
Simple determinism, whether of the genetic or environmental kind, is a depressing prospect for those with a fondness for free will. — Matt Ridley Copy Share Image
Nature always strikes back. It takes all the running we can do to remain in the same place. — Rene Dubos Copy Share Image
The miracle of man is not how far he has sunk but how magnificently he has risen. We are known among the… — Robert Ardrey Copy Share Image
Because of the complexity of the problem, environmental skepticism was once tenable. No longer. It is time to flip from skepticism to… — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
A river, though, has so many things to say that it is hard to know what it says to each of us. — Norman Maclean Copy Share Image
Gardening is civil and social, but it wants the vigor and freedom of the forest and the outlaw. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
As with Three Mile Island, the hysteria of the media and the political class over the Deepwater spill is likely to lead… — Steven F. Hayward Copy Share Image
When my father finished his Ph.D., my mother went back for another bachelor's degree, this time in environmental science. — Celeste Ng 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