Environment Quotes

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Grassroots groups challenge the "business-as-usual" environmentalism that is generally practiced by the more privileged wildlife-and conservation-oriented groups. The focus of activists of color and their… — Robert D Bullard
An environmental revolution is taking shape in the United States. This revolution has touched communities of color from New York to California and from Florida… — Robert D Bullard
I want to make it clear,if there is ever a conflict (between environmental quality and economic growth), I will go for beauty, clean air, water,… — Jimmy Carter
Look about you. Take hold of the things that are here. Let them talk to you. You learn to talk to them. — George Washington Carver
Everything is connected to everything else. Everything must go somewhere. Nature knows best. There is no such thing as a free lunch. If you don't… — Barry Commoner
There are no boundaries in the real Planet Earth. No United States, no Soviet Union, no China, no Taiwan...Rivers flow unimpeded across the swaths of… — Jacques Yves Cousteau
We go to sanctuaries to remember the things we hold most dear, the things we cherish and love. And then-the great challenge-we return home seeking… — William Cronon
Children have become disengaged from nature and we need to reintroduce them to the pleasure that it brings. If we do that they will care… — Judi Dench
Love the earth as you would love yourself. — John Denver
We must set an example now and move environmentalism from being the philosophy of a passionate minority ... to a way of life that automatically… — Leonardo DiCaprio
We've been given this gift, our planet, and we've found no other place in the universe that we can inhabit. I want to do something… — Leonardo DiCaprio
As we progress into the twenty-first century, anyone who considers themselves a realist will have to make the environment a top priority. — Leonardo DiCaprio
Our planet's alarm is going off, and it is time to wake up and take action! — Leonardo DiCaprio
I hope to be remembered as someone who made the earth a little more beautiful. — William O. Douglas
The concept of the public welfare is broad and inclusive ... the values it represents are spiritual as well as physical, aesthetic as well as… — William O. Douglas
It is not man the ecological crisis threatens to destroy but the quality of human life. — Rene Dubos
Humanity, let us say, is like people packed in a automobile which is traveling downhill without lights at a terrific speed and driven by a… — Lord Dunsany
The great ecosystems are like complex tapestries - a million complicated threads, interwoven, make up the whole picture. Nature can cope with small rents in… — Gerald Durrell
Energy efficiency should be on the priority list for all home improvement work these days. Canny builders will be able to provide homeowners with energy… — Sarah Beeny
There is a spiritual side to our connection with the planet. And in this material world, that's anathema. It is somewhat worrying. What I say..… — Bob Brown

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