Politicians usually get the blame for dragging their feet on environmental issues. And fair enough. Most of them do just that. But… — Zac Goldsmith Copy Share Image
I've won some awards. 'Time' magazine designated me as one of the environmental heroes of the 20th century. Oh, and I've got… — Paul Watson Copy Share Image
Drink a bottle of French water and then step into the shower for ten minutes and you've just received the exposure equivalent… — Sandra Steingraber Copy Share Image
The theory of the method of knowing which is advanced in these pages may be termed pragmatic. ... Only that which has… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Environmental policies are not just about good publicity; they are about responding to the moral imperative to address both climate change and… — Toby Robins Copy Share Image
In the state of Wisconsin it's mandated that teachers in the social sciences and hard sciences have to start giving environmental education… — Gaylord Nelson Copy Share Image
From year to year, environmental changes are incremental and often barely register in our lives, but from evolutionary or geological perspectives, what… — David Suzuki Copy Share Image
During my travels in Iraq, Israel, Gaza, Brazil, Indonesia, Japan, Europe and all over the United States, I have seen and heard… — Michael Franti Copy Share Image
Criticism of growth arose with the discovery that growth beyond a certain point is destructive of the earth. We are already using… — John B. Cobb Copy Share Image
I want to yell about it most days and stop strangers in the street to share my outrage. But my mind is… — Robin Beth Schaer Copy Share Image
Wars results in immediate deaths and destruction, but the environmental consequences can last hundreds, often thousands of years. And it is not… — Rosalie Bertell Copy Share Image
The great wilds of our country, once held to be boundless and inexhaustible, are being rapidly invaded and overrun in every direction,… — John Muir Copy Share Image
The world was created because God willed it, but why did He will it? Judaism has maintained, in all of its versions,… — Arthur Hertzberg Copy Share Image
The insecticides kill the black flies, but also destroy much of the food chain for the bird, fish, and animal life which… — Winona LaDuke Copy Share Image
There is a point of no return after which warming becomes unstoppable - and we are probably going to sail right through… — Gwynne Dyer Copy Share Image
Our analysis shows that, for the extreme hot weather of the recent past, there is virtually no explanation other than climate change.… — James Hansen Copy Share Image
I don't think there's any evidence to support that kind of criticism. I think that what we have attempted to do is… — George Deukmejian Copy Share Image
It's not enough simply to wear the badge of corporate responsibility. Business must accept that real change is the only response to… — Jonathon Porritt Copy Share Image
Regulate the banks, get money out of elections; raise the minimum wage, environmental issues. They're all very important and the Occupy movement… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The potential in many environmental issues is that if you undertake corrective action without appropriate understanding of the problem, then you wind… — Hugh Ross Copy Share Image
The world beyond 450 ppm atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide, the world that crosses carbon cycle tipping points that quickly take us… — Joseph J. Romm Copy Share Image
As far as I'm concerned, it is clear that the concept of premium will be increasingly defined through sustainability in the future.… — Norbert Reithofer Copy Share Image
The single greatest issue for me as an environmentalist is climate change. I'd have to say that climate change is the single… — Jerome Ringo Copy Share Image
No one has the right to use America's rivers and America's Waterways, that belong to all the people. as a sewer. The… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
Earth Day gathered up those strands, and dozens more, and knitted them together in the public consciousness as "environmental" issues. The nation… — Denis Hayes Copy Share Image
When future generations judge those who came before them on environmental issues, they may conclude "they didn't know": let us not go… — Mikhail Gorbachev Copy Share Image
A building that has great environmental responsibility is a political animal in a way because it becomes promotional of a cause. I… — Antoine Predock Copy Share Image
We know that when women have access to voluntary family planning services, supplies and information, society sees enormous gains in each of… — Jenny Shipley Copy Share Image
Journalists and activists alike have an obligation to describe environmental problems honestly and accurately, even if they fear doing so will reduce… — Michael Shellenberger Copy Share Image
I took the initiative in moving forward a whole range of initiatives that have proven to be important to our country's economic… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
... these are the two factors that lead to the destruction of our environment: money and time-or to say it another way,… — Francis Schaeffer Copy Share Image
The climate crowd did a lousy job communicating. Several reports have itemized the fact that over a billion dollars was spent on… — Randy Olson Copy Share Image
Our presence on this planet does not seem to be sustainable. Our technological civilisation makes up particularly vulnerable. There is talk all… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
The earth will not continue to offer its harvest, except with faithful stewardship. We cannot say we love the land and then… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
An important measure of our true commitment to environmental quality is our dedication to protecting the wilderness and its inhabitants. We must… — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
Incredibly, oil and gas companies don't have to pay certain environmental costs that amount to small change to them, while an offshore… — Chellie Pingree 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
I grew up a squatter on the Lower East Side, so it's kind of a given that I'd have very strong opinions… — Rosario Dawson Copy Share Image
I gave my heart to the mountains the minute I stood beside this river with its spray in my face and watched… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
We are committed to cleaning up the air and cleaning up the water. But we also are committed to a strong economy,… — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
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