Environment Quotes

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I am still looking for the modern equivalent of those Quakers who ran successful businesses and made money because they offered honest products and treated… — Anita Roddick
Humanity, in the desperate attempt to fit 8 billion or more people on the planet and give them a higher standard of living, is at… — E. O. Wilson
Will urban sprawl spread so far that most people lose all touch with nature? Will the day come when the only bird a typical American… — Unknown Author
Rising oil prices have focused the world's attention on the depletion of oil reserves. But the depletion of underground water resources from overpumping is a… — Lester R. Brown
I remember a hundred lovely lakes, and recall the fragrant breath of pine and fir and cedar and poplar trees. The trail has strung upon… — Hamlin Garland
When you enter a grove peopled with ancient trees, higher than the ordinary, and shutting out the sky with their thickly inter-twined branches, do not… — Seneca the Younger
Who leaves the pine-tree, leaves his friend, Unnerves his strength, invites his end. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
I willingly confess to so great a partiality for trees as tempts me to respect a man in exact proportion to his respect for them. — James Russell Lowell
The struggle to save the global environment is in one way much more difficult than the struggle to vanquish Hitler, for this time the war… — Al Gore
Our children may save us if they are taught to care properly for the planet; but if not, it may be back to the Ice… — Jimmy Buffett
How long can men thrive between walls of brick, walking on asphalt pavements, breathing the fumes of coal and of oil, growing, working, dying, with… — Charles Lindbergh
Contrary to popular belief, we do not face a choice between economy and ecology, It is often said that protecting the environment would constrain or… — Kofi Annan
There have been more than 30,000 oil wells drilled in the Gulf of Mexico in the last 50 years. This is the first time something… — Haley Barbour
Can you think of any problem, in any area of human endeavour, on any scale, from microscopic to global, whose long-term solution is in any… — Albert Allen Bartlett
The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand the exponential function. — Albert Allen Bartlett
The major problems in the world are the result of the difference between how nature works and the way people think. — Gregory Bateson
Global warming threatens the survival of our species. — Lucien Bouchard
One individual cannot possible make a difference, alone. It is individual efforts, collectively, that makes a noticeable difference - all the difference in the world! — Jane Goodall
Let us not be blind to our differences-but let us also direct attention to our common interests and to the means by which those differences… — John F. Kennedy
Automation does not need to be our enemy. I think machines can make life easier for men, if men do not let the machines dominate… — John F. Kennedy

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