Environmentalism Quotes

Environmentalism has failed.

— David Suzuki

Peace is a conscious choice.

— John Denver

One planet, one experiment.

— Anonymous

“Earth Breathes in Us.”

— Matthew Edward Hall

I'm sick of environmentalism.

— Tracey Ullman

“The night. The stars. The river.”

— Edward Abbey

Good environmentalism is good economics

— Barber Conable

“Bloom where planted”

— Karin Boutall

If environmentalism is a fad, it will be the last one.

— Barry Commoner

“The world doesn't need another climate summit, the world needs a climate summon.”

— Abhijit Naskar

“Did I just see you litter?' 'I'm driving a hybrid. It cancels out.”

— Michelle Hodkin

“Wine is a gateway drug to environmentalism.”

— Katherine Cole

“We have put the extinction clock on a fast-forward.”

— Lester R. Brown

“The more we pollute the earth, the less we deserve to live on earth!”

— Mehmet Murat ildan

You know what happens when windmills collapse into the sea? A splash.

— Bill Maher

“Mother Nature is challenging enough, let's keep oil drilling out of the picture.”

— Mommy Moo Moo

“Instead, the world should run on sufficiency; enough food, enough energy, enough connection, shared fairly, within the boundaries of ecosystems.”

— Fons Burger

So many people think you have to be rich and famous to really create an impact, and it's just not true. Especially…

— Eva Longoria

“They have taken the idea of nonharming, of gentleness toward the earth, to a very radical level. Even the weeds are not…

— Andy Couturier

Recycling and speed limits are bullshit. They're like someone who quits smoking on his deathbed.

— Chuck Palahniuk

She's a surprise this old earth, one big surprise after another since before she separated from the moon who circles and circles…

— Peter Heller

“Every landscape remembers. The question is whether we are willing to listen before the next storm rewrites the story.”

— Robert W Collin

“Ethical vegetarians eat only plant-based food in order to show compassion toward animals and other humans and to benefit the planet.”

— Sharon Gannon

Environmentalism is not about the environment. It is about people. It is about a vision for a better life-for people.

— Colin Beavan

I don't believe in environmentalism as the solution to anything. What I believe is that environmentalism illuminates the things that need to…

— Barry Commoner

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

— Al Gore

“A photograph of a disposable diaper floating in the arctic miles away from human habitat fueled my daily determination to save at…

— Gloria Ng

The word vegetarian, I think, does a disservice because there are a lot of people who care but maybe don't care, or…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

Environmentalism is a luxury. Just like being a vegetarian is a luxury. When you have to worry about eating - you're not…

— Sherman Alexie

“Most every charge you level at American capitalism applies with equal force to communism, with this nice difference, that the Reds make…

— Edward Abbey

“The difference between the long-term average of the graph and the ice age, 12,000 years ago, is just over 3°C. The IPCC…

— James Lovelock

“I am here because I have to be here, as here I am supposed to be! All things should be, and usually…

— William O'Brien

“In clear-cutting, he said, you clear away the natural forest, or what the industrial forester calls "weed trees," and plant all one…

— Edward Abbey

Under the constitution, there was never meant to be a federal police force. Even an FBI limited only to investigations was not…

— Ron Paul

“You wanna know why the world is f**ked? This is why, this is exactly why…right here. Get a pen, write this down,…

— Shannon Lyndsy

“Nothing is more important to human beings than an ecologically functioning, life sustaining biosphere on the earth. It is the only habitable…

— Joseph Guth

“One of the striking things about places heavily contaminated by radioactive nuclides is the richness of their wildlife. This is true of…

— James Lovelock

“Others consider us superior because of our cultured ways and intellectual tendencies; our technology lets us drive cars, use word processors and…

— James Lovelock

I don't think whole populations are villainous, but Americans are just extraordinarily unaware of all kinds of things. If you live in…

— David Attenborough

“I no longer follow the voices of the sane. I follow the ill because they see farther, feel much more and change…

— Shannon L. Alder