Environmentalism Quotes · Page 3

Ecology is often confused with environmentalism, while in fact, environmentalism often leaves out the fact that people, too, can be a legitimate…

— Frank Herbert

“I sincerely hoped that in the fullness of time, they’d have the opportunity to get all bent out of shape about environmentalism.”

— Dennis E. Taylor

You know, people have tried to make out there is a split between environmentalism and labor over the years. And if that…

— Donald Trump

Apocalyptic thinking happens on the left as well as on the right, and in environmentalism, that's a terrible approach to take. Because…

— Kim Stanley Robinson

“One of humankind's most enduring misconceptions is that of nature's bounty... the belief that nature is such a powerful force that it…

— Mark Kurlansky

Environmentalism opposes reckless innovation and makes conservation the central order of business.

— Christopher Lasch

“Management" of anything as complicated as a woods requires more humility than comes easily to our species, at least in its American…

— Bill McKibben

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

— Colin Beavan

“Darwinists are right to say that selection favours the organisms that leave alive the most progeny, but vigorous growth takes place within…

— James Lovelock

Nevertheless, there is another threat on the horizon. I see this threat in environmentalism which is becoming a new dominant ideology, if…

— Vaclav Klaus

“Some call me nature, others call me Mother Nature. ... How you choose to live each day, whether you regard me or…

— Conservation International

I think the greatest challenge in environmentalism and the most rewarding challenge is trying to figure out how humans can meet their…

— Gale Norton

“the assumptions that "pollution is the price of progress" or that "we must choose between jobs and the environment" have long limited…

— Annie Leonard

Big government, global environmentalism cannot work unless everyone pitches in. With China, Russia, India and a number of other countries constantly cheating…

— Katie Pavlich

“The Guardian's headline is 'How Going Green May Make You Mean.' We're inclined to think the chain of causation runs the other…

— James Taranto

The hole in the ozone layer is a kind of skywriting. At first it seemed to spell out our continuing complacency before…

— Carl Sagan

Environmentalism is not an upper-income issue, it's not a white issue, it's not a black issue, it's not a South or a…

— Barack Obama

“The war for the Narmada valley is not just some exotic tribal war, or a remote rural war or even an exclusively…

— Arundhati Roy

Climate science has been targeted by a major political movement, environmentalism, as the focus of their efforts, wherein the natural disasters of…

— Richard Lindzen

“A planet might deteriorate even if human beings existed upon it, if the society were itself abnormal and did not understand the…

— Isaac Asimov

“Gaia is a thin spherical shell of matter that surrounds the incandescent interior; it begins where the crustal rocks meet the magma…

— James Lovelock

Environmentalism needs to be absolutely based in objective and verifiable science, it needs to be rational, and it needs to be flexible.…

— Michael Crichton

“The Earth has recovered after fevers like this, and there are no grounds for thinking that what we are doing will destroy…

— James Lovelock

“I don't think I understand that," Meg insisted. "How can you lust yourself into oblivion. " "Oh, easily," Ekaterina answered. "The lust…

— Robert Stikmanz

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

— Sharon Gannon

“Well, sir. I look at facts. And the fact is that our world is dying and if we don't all do our…

— A.J. Lauer

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

“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

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

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

— Fons Burger

Phasing out the human race will solve every problem on earth, social and environmental.

— David Foreman

Environmentalism is a form of pagan fundamentalism. These green wackos are fanatics like al-Quaida. Just like them.

— G. Gordon Liddy

We cannot fulfill that purpose [environmentalism] if we are heaping contempt on God's creation.

— Joe Lieberman

“To understand the Dreamtime, you must understand that we do not own the land. The land is our mother and she owns…

— Lance Morcan

We need to be rid of the insane policy of environmentalism. No more 'green', anti-growth, anti-science environmental policy.

— Kesha Rogers

...environmentalism has already killed somewhere between 10-30 million people since the 1970s

— Michael Crichton

“I think it is far more important to save one square mile of wilderness, anywhere, by any means, than to produce another…

— Edward Abbey

“Nothing short of the end of the world would get our eco-conscious techies to toss their latest gadgets onto the street.”

— Susan Ee