Environment Quotes

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Our national conservation effort must include the complete spectrum of resources: air, water, and land; fuels, energy, and minerals; soils, forests, and forage; fish and… — John F. Kennedy
While there are many who would say that the race to the moon was hardly green, many others have noted that the photographs brought back… — John F. Kennedy
Increasingly, the world around us looks as if we hated it. — Alan Watts
Those who prefer security to liberty deserve neither. — Benjamin Franklin
Every experience in life, everything with which we have come in contact in life, is a chisel which has been cutting away at our life… — Orison Swett Marden
People blame their environment. There is only one person to blame - and only one - themselves. — Robert Collier
Even if you never have the chance to see or touch the ocean, the ocean touches you with every breath you take, every drop of… — Sylvia Earle
Sustainability is growth based on forms and processes of development that do not undermine the integrity of the environment on which they depend — Jim MacNeill
One way or another, the choice will be made by our generation, but it will affect life on earth for all generations to come — Lester R. Brown
According to new research emerging from many quarters that our continued devotion to growth above all is, on balance, making our lives worse, both collectively… — Bill McKibben
No sustainable development, environmental harmony or lasting security will happen if we are unable to eradicate hunger and extreme inequality — Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva
There are those who would love each other if once they were to speak to each other; when they spoke they would discover their souls… — Ernest Hello
As important as it is to change the light bulbs, its more important to change the laws — Al Gore
It was inspiring to learn of the new Bachelor of Environmental Studies Program, and I congratulate you for it. Singapore is geographically in the right… — E. O. Wilson
I congratulate NUS for launching a new degree, a bachelor of environmental studies. This is a most timely initiative. One of the biggest challenges facing… — Unknown Author
The 21st century will be the Asian century. This also means that Asians will be expected to provide greater leadership to solve global challenges, including… — Kishore Mahbubani
We do need a 'new economy,' but one that is founded on thrift and care, on saving and conserving, not on excess and waste. An… — Wendell Berry
The most unhappy thing about conservation is that it is never permanent. Save a priceless woodland or an irreplaceable mountain today, and tomorrow it is… — Hal Borland
Are we to regard the world of nature simply as a storehouse to be robbed for the immediate benefit of man? ... Does man have… — Kenneth E. Boulding
If we go on as we are, we will destroy in the next century everything that the poets have been singing about for the past… — Fred Bodsworth

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