Environmental Quotes · Page 23

You cannot achieve environmental security and human development without addressing the basic issues of health and nutrition.

— Gro Harlem Brundtland

Many of the environmental rules not only fail to protect the natural environment, they actually increase the damage.

— Michael J. Knowles

If you know wilderness in the way that you know love, you would be unwilling to let it go… This is the…

— Terry Tempest Williams

Although they [light and medium trucks] have only 5% of the transportation market..., they account for fully 35% of greenhouse gas emissions…

— David Suzuki

Ethanol is a premier, high performance fuel. It has tremendous environmental benefits and is a key component to energy independence for our…

— Richard Lugar

Our view has been that unless stringent environmental tests can be passed by would-be frackers, then no fracking should take place.

— Barry Gardiner

Environmental regulation looked like it was going to be under serious attack, and they were giving all of those speeches about getting…

— Robert Hass

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

— Dan Lipinski

One of the things that Ive always thought I would like to do is to develop an environmental index. Then people can…

— Maurice Strong

Somewhere down the line I'd like to create a foundation that brings awareness to environmental protection, sustainability, the effects of pollution, and…

— Xander Schauffele

And no matter how serious an environmental problem the automobile poses in today's big city, the horse was dirtier, smelled worse, killed…

— Peter Drucker

Bad news, it's going to be a huge environmental disaster, the oil rig down there in the Gulf of Mexico. The good…

— David Letterman

Many times, I left the prison thinking, 'I'm smart. I can make it. I won't get caught up again.' But you get…

— Susan Burton

In a world of serious threats to the U.K. and to global stability, where we see violence and conflict pulling people back…

— Priti Patel

For millions of years, on average, one species became extinct every century… We are now heaving more than a thousand different species…

— Douglas Adams

It is important to consider whether the sample size selected by the Environmental Genome Project will provide sufficient power to discover most…

— Samuel Wilson

The human species is now at a point where it has to make choices that are going to determine whether decent survival…

— Noam Chomsky

Even in the era of AIDS, sex raises no unique moral issues at all. Decisions about sex may involve considerations about honesty,…

— Peter Singer

An unfolding technology has increased our economic strength and added to the convenience of our lives. But that same technology-we know now-carries…

— Lyndon B. Johnson

It is a written fact that our people had warned of all these consequences of wrongful environmental behavior since our very first…

— Leonard Peltier

Who ever saw his old clothes, - his old coat, actually worn out, resolved into its primitive elements, so that it was…

— Henry David Thoreau

The obvious one, in a market system, in a really functioning one, whoever's making the decisions doesn't pay attention to what are…

— Noam Chomsky

Environmental policies are driven by a kind of emotional spiritualism that threatens the very foundation of our society. There is increasing evidence…

— Helen Chenoweth-Hage

If the life-supporting ecosystems of the planet are to survive for future generations, the consumer society will have to dramatically curtail its…

— Alan Thein Durning

Footballers' consumerism or emphasis on luxury brands is hardly the root of all environmental problems.

— David James

Everything we see in nature is manifested truth; only we are not able to recognize it unless truth is manifest within ourselves.

— Jakob Bohme

May the countryside and the gliding valley streams content me. Lost to fame, let me love river and woodland.

— Virgil

Every American expects and deserves clean air, and then we act on that belief, then we will set an example for the…

— George H. W. Bush

Since problems spill across borders, security anywhere depends on sustainable development everywhere.

— Ban Ki-moon

If environmental protection efforts continue to lag behind economic growth, pollution will become even more rampant.

— Zhou Shengxian

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

Only within the moment of time represented by the present century has one species -- man -- acquired significant power to alter…

— Rachel Carson

Clothing shouldn't be a societal shackle. It should be art and truth and a way for us to show the world what…

— Rain Dove

My advice to everybody would be to go out as much as possible and deal with social inequality and environmental degradation because…

— David Harvey

Wealth and vegetation go together, and that exacerbates environmental injustice. The poor bear the burden of degraded environments.

— Natalie Jeremijenko

Invoking Nature always measures the distance we have yet to travel to achieve real progress on environmental issues.

— Timothy Morton

Producing food to eat is the single most destructive environmental activity humans engage in.

— Ramez Naam

There's something very environmental about quality. We live in such a disposable society, but real style doesn't change that much.

— Elizabeth Rogers

Nature's patterns sometimes reflect two intertwined features: fundamental physical laws and environmental influences. It's nature's version of nature versus nurture.

— Brian Greene

If the bee disappeared off the face of the earth, man would only have four years left to live.

— Maurice Maeterlinck