Assault Quote by Barry Commoner

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

— Anita Roddick

Judging by the pollution content of the atmosphere, I believe we have arrived at the late twentieth century.

— Leonard Nimoy

Just as with other great words, the word environment means different things. You might say that a cave woman twenty thousand years ago sweeping…

— Pete Seeger

During the Holocene, we undoubtedly altered our environment significantly, clearing land, diverting water and building great cities.

— Johan Rockstrom

Wars results in immediate deaths and destruction, but the environmental consequences can last hundreds, often thousands of years. And it is not just war…

— Rosalie Bertell

After World War II society had to settle back for a moment before it picked up the 20th century.

— Stella Blum

“Environmentalists had enjoyed modest successes during the New Frontier-Great Society years: a Clean Air Act in 1963, a Wilderness Act in 1964, a Clean…

— James T. Patterson

Until I was 16 or 17, I had heard practically nothing about the history that preceded 1945. Only when we were 17 were we…

— W. G. Sebald

Let me give you an idea of Fifties Britain. The war had ended ten years before, and most people had returned to their gardens…

— Mary Quant

What we know is that the environmental movement had a series of dazzling victories in the late '60s and in the '70s where the…

— Naomi Klein

“Humans began to show their pathogenic potential toward the planet during the 1950s, ravenously devouring natural resources and discarding waste into the environment with…

— Joseph C. Jenkins

I am especially grateful, however, to have known the fifties, before we began to poison our own civilization - or at least before the…

— Orson Scott Card