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Environment Quotes by Barry Commoner
- What is new is that environmentalism intensely illuminates the need to confront the corporate domain at its most powerful and guarded point - the exclusive…
- When you fully understand the situation, it is worse than you think.
- Recycling is a good thing to do. It makes people feel good to do it. The thing I want to emphasize is the vast difference…
- 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…
- Environmental quality was drastically improved while economic activity grew by the simple expedient of removing lead from gasoline - which prevented it from entering the…
- The environmental crisis is a sign that the ecosphere is now so heavily strained that its continued stability is threatened. It is a warning that…
- The modern assault on the environment began about 50 years ago, during and immediately after World War II.
- The weapons were conceived and created by a small band of physicists and chemists; they remain a cataclysmic threat to the whole of human society…
More Environment Quotes
- A good director creates an environment, which gives the actor the encouragement to fly. — Kevin Bacon
- It seems to me that the natural world is the greatest source of excitement; the greatest source of visual beauty; the greatest… — 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
- Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed. — Francis Bacon
- Many a man curses the rain that falls upon his head, and knows not that it brings abundance to drive away the… — Saint Basil
- Christ changes men, who then change their environment. The world would shape human behavior, but Christ can change human nature. — Ezra Taft Benson
- The Church must never be satisfied with the ranks of those whom she has reached at a certain point or say that… — Pope Benedict XVI
- Coral reefs, the rain forest of the ocean, are home for one-third of the species of the sea. Coral reefs are under… — James Hansen