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Environment Quotes by Al Gore
- One tragic example of the loss of forests and then water is found in Ethiopia. The amount of its forested land has decreased from 40…
- The choice to 'do nothing' in response to the mounting evidence is actually a choice to continue and even accelerate the reckless environmental destruction that…
- The message from Wal-Mart today to the rest of the business community is there need not be any conflict between the environment and the economy.…
- The wind and the sun are free.
- We have arrived at a moment of decision. Our home-Earth-is in danger. What is at risk of being destroyed is not the planet itself, of…
- Our insatiable drive to rummage deep beneath the surface of the earth is a willful expansion of our dysfunctional civilization into Nature.
- We the human species, are confronting a planetary emergency-a threat to the survival of our civilization that is gathering ominous and destructive potential...the earth has…
- ...unless we act boldly and quickly to deal with the underlying causes of global warming, our world will undergo a string of terrible catastrophes...
- ...it ought to be possible to establish a coordinated global program to accomplish the strategic goal of completely eliminating the internal combustion engine over, say,…
- The Himalayan Glaciers on the Tibetan Plateau have been among the most affected by global warming. The Himalayas...provide more than half of the drinking water…
- ...the debate among the scientists if over. There is no more debate. We face a planetary emergency. There is no more scientific debate among serious…
- The misconception that there is serious disagreement among scientists about global warming is actually an illusion that has been deliberately fostered by a relatively small…
- The ten hottest years in the atmospheric record, going back only 160 years, have been in the last eleven years.
- ...2009 saw the eighth 'ten-year flood' of Fargo, North Dakota, since 1989. In Iowa, Cedar Rapids was hit last year by a flood that exceeded…
- As it turns out, the scientific community has been addressing this particular question for some time now and they say that increased heavy snowfalls are…
- Adopting a central organizing principle means embarking on an all-out effort to use every policy and program, every law and institution, to halt the destruction…
- We are monumentally distracted by a pervasive technological culture that appears to have a life of its own, one that insists on our full attention,…
- Pollution should never be the price of prosperity.
- 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…
- As important as it is to change the light bulbs, its more important to change the laws
More Environment Quotes
- The simplest things are often the truest. — Richard Bach
- We worked on solving the problem of voice communications in a noisy military environment. We established military codes that are highly audible… — M H Abrams
- An understanding of the natural world and what's in it is a source of not only a great curiosity but great fulfillment. — David Attenborough
- It seems to me that the natural world is the greatest source of excitement; the greatest source of visual beauty; the greatest… — David Attenborough
- The only way to save a rhinoceros is to save the environment in which it lives, because there's a mutual dependency between… — David Attenborough
- You can only get really unpopular decisions through if the electorate is convinced of the value of the environment. That's what natural… — David Attenborough
- A true conservationist is a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers, but borrowed from his children. — John James Audubon
- As people flock to urban centers where ground space is limited, cities with green walls and roofs and skyscraper farms offer improved… — Diane Ackerman