Action Quote by Barry Commoner

Earth Day gathered up those strands, and dozens more, and knitted them together in the public consciousness as "environmental" issues. The nation was pretty…

— Denis Hayes

Americans long thought that nature could take care of itself-or that if it did not, the consequences were someone else's problem. As we know…

— Jimmy Carter

For decades, I thought that scientific truth, solid economic case studies, and common sense were enough to bring about change on the environmental front.…

— Annie Leonard

From the cranberry cancer scare of the 1950s to the Alar-in-apples hysteria of the 1980s, from the "new ice age" of the 1960s to…

— Harry Browne

The movement for the environment really only started in the mid 1970's.

— Anita Roddick

Since the first Earth Day, the EPA has regulated lead out of paint, air, and gasoline. It started fuel-economy testing (and then caught those…

— Andrew R. Wheeler

Well, The Day the Earth Caught Fire was a story... I don't if anybody knows what it is but it was about... in the…

— Val Guest

Not to wax nostalgic about the 1970s, but back then people got upset when they saw injustice. They got tired of seeing our air,…

— Anonymous

One of the most unfortunate side effects of the urban activism of the '60s and '70s is the belief that development is wrong and…

— Alex Steffen

We decided that the environment was an integral part of our policies and the political thrust of our government. We gave it the priority…

— Brian Mulroney

In one hundred years time people will look back and think 'these people were really worried about the environment, they were looking at things…

— Patricia Piccinini

The result was, when Congress convened in January 1971, everyone was now an environmentalist. They had seen a new force, college students, who favored…

— Pete McCloskey