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Environment Quotes by Maurice Strong
- The concept of national sovereignty has been an immutable, indeed sacred, principle of international relations. It is a principle which will yield only slowly and…
- Also, it is interesting that developing countries, with China and India perhaps in the lead, where the future of the global environment will be decided…
- After all, sustainability means running the global environment - Earth Inc. - like a corporation: with depreciation, amortization and maintenance accounts. In other words, keeping…
- I am President of the UN created University for Peace, which has a strong commitment to the relationship between peace, security and the environment. I…
- Well they do have a use, but we should never believe that any international conference is going to suddenly solve problems like the condition of…
- We in the industrialized world make a greater difference because our ecological footprint, our impact on the condition of the environment, is 40 to 50…
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
- Civilization... wrecks the planet from seafloor to stratosphere. — Richard Bach
- Green is the prime color of the world, and that from which its loveliness arises. — Pedro Calderon de la Barca
- Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed. — Francis Bacon
- We cannot command Nature except by obeying her. — Francis Bacon