Climate Quotes

1323 Climate quotes by 704 unique authors

We just want government to be a smart, supportive, reliable partner to the forces that are working for good in this country. — Van Jones
We must quickly mobilize our civilization with the urgency and resolve that has previously been seen only when nations mobilized for war. These prior struggles… — Al Gore
We must start... rebuilding our cities around energy efficiency and human needs, rather than around the car and wasted energy. — Jay Inslee
We never have 100 percent certainty. We never have it. If you wait until you have 100 percent certainty, something bad is going to happen… — Gordon R. Sullivan
We stand at a moment in history without precedent. Decisions that are ours to make over the next ten years will have a sweeping impact… — Eban Goodstein
We're like a two-year old playing with fire ... we're messing around with something really dangerous and don't really understand what will happen. — Unknown Author
We're operating this planet like a business in liquidation. — Al Gore
Well, we in America are about to break up with oil. Why not break up with poverty and discrimination too? — Van Jones
We've known for some time that we have to worry about the impacts of climate change on our children's and grandchildren's generations. But we now… — Margaret Beckett
What a great time to be born, what a great time to be alive, because this generation gets to completely change this world. — Paul Hawken
What degree of proof about the human catastrophe from global climate change do we need, before we are motivated to act to prevent it? — Eric Chivian
When I circled the moon and looked back at Earth, my outlook on life and my viewpoint of Earth changed... Earth is a spaceship, just… — Jim Lovell
When people ask me what they should do, I reply, "Get informed, get outraged, and then get political." — Joseph J. Romm
When we design our national R&D programs, we ought to ensure a place for the small, the new, and the cutting-edge. — Jay Inslee
When we plant trees, we plant the seeds of peace and seeds of hope. — Wangari Maathai
While the high-level climate talks pursue their stately progress towards some ill-defined destination, down in the trenches there is an undercurrent of suppressed panic in… — Gwynne Dyer
Will the new environmental leaders fight for eco-equity in this new "green economy" they are birthing? — Van Jones
You must become a climate champion, a single-issue voter. You must take whatever action you can. You must use whatever influence you have wherever it… — Joseph J. Romm
You need to really scrub your investment portfolios, because I guarantee you, many of you are going to find them chock-full of subprime carbon assets. — Al Gore
You should never even ask if a campaign is winnable, because the question is not answerable. No-one can predict the course of the future. Time… — Elizabeth May
You'd be forgiven for thinking that climate change means we'll have to sacrifice our creature comforts. But it doesn't have to be that way. — Mark Lynas
We believe the ice sheet was not around all the time. It was only around during cool snaps of the climate — Kenneth R. Miller
No one is born gay. The idea is ridiculous, but it is symptomatic of our overpoliticized climate that such assertions are given instant credence by… — Camille Paglia
Men are weak now, and yet they transform the Earth's surface. In millions of years their might will increase to the extent that they will… — Konstantin Tsiolkovsky
A knowledgeable and courageous U.S. president could help enormously in leading the world's nations toward saving the climate. — Donella Meadows

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