Environment Quotes
3400 quotes by 2224 authors
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Mother Earth is hurting. And she needs a generation of thoughtful, caring and active kids like all of you to protect her for the future.
— Leonardo DiCaprio
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Being green saves you money. Being green saves you green.
— Sophia Bush
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I've moved away from that sort of deep-ecological extremism. I started to think: what can we do for wild birds right now? I don't want…
— Jonathan Franzen
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I find a lot of people say, "Oh organic and local's expensive and I just don't have time." And I'm like, well how much TV…
— Ellen Page
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There are tiny choices that everyone can make that profoundly affect our collective water use. Like not having the tap on while brushing your teeth,…
— Kristen Bell
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I really worry about the state of the planet and I wish everyone would make a concerned effort not to trash it.
— Gwyneth Paltrow
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It's not just global warming, it's not just a loss of biodiversity, it's not just the pollution of our oceans and the clearing of our…
— Leonardo DiCaprio
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Peasant people ... don't have a chance to share in the riches that the planet can offer because some people are taking off so much…
— Dorothy Stang
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Farmers are the only indispensable people on the face of the earth.
— Li Zhaoxing
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The diligent farmer plants trees, of which he himself will never see the fruit.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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The correlation between poverty and obesity can be traced to agricultural policies and subsidies.
— Michael Pollan
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The American people have a right to air that they and their children can breathe without fear.
— Lyndon B. Johnson
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I am a great eater of beef, and I believe that does harm to my wit.
— William Shakespeare
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Men are naturally most impressed by diseases which have obvious manifestations, yet some of their worst enemies creep on them unobtrusively.
— Rene Dubos
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The financial system as a whole has had the characteristics of a Ponzi scheme if we look at it fundamentally.
— Tim Lee
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Every good cause is worth some inefficiency.
— Paul Samuelson
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Man is not like other animals in the ways that are really significant: Animals have instincts, we have taxes.
— Erving Goffman
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Not only will atomic power be released, but someday we will harness the rise and fall of the tides and imprison the rays of the…
— Thomas A. Edison
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We are witnessing the beginning of one of the great tragedies of history. The United States, in a misguided effort to reduce its oil insecurity…
— Lester R. Brown
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The amount of electricity that has been saved in spite of Vice President Cheney saying that efficiency is only a moral virtue ... and that…
— Stephen Schneider
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