Environment Quotes
3400 Environment quotes by 2126 unique authors
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The proper goal of an economic democracy agenda is to replace the global suicide economy ruled by rapacious and unaccountable global corporations with a planetary…
— David Korten
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The choice is ours-yours and mine. We can stay with business as usual and preside over a global bubble economy that keeps expanding until it…
— Lester R. Brown
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We can now destroy or we can cherish-the choice is ours.
— David Attenborough
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So much beauty in the world, so few eyes to see it.
— Unknown Author
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Humans are the most successful invasives of all time.
— Diane Ackerman
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Nature is not mute, it is a man who is deaf.
— Terence McKenna
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The environment is not just around you, it's passing through you.
— Michael Pollan
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The improved means to the unimproved end.
— Henry David Thoreau
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You are one of the forces of nature.
— Jules Michelet
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Solve global warming, eliminate the nuclear threat, and we will still have to confront the vastness of our species and the way it diminishes, without…
— Verlyn Klinkenborg
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The Stone Age did not end for lack of stone, and the Oil Age will end long before the world runs out of oil.
— Ahmed Zaki Yamani
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CAFE is like trying to cure obesity by requiring clothing manufacturers to make smaller sizes.
— Bob Lutz
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The struggle of today is not altogether for today - it is for a vast future also.
— Abraham Lincoln
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Come with me, the river said, close your eyes and quiet your limbs and float with me into the wonder and mystery of the canyons,…
— Edward Abbey
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Be assured that our individual actions, collectively, make a huge difference.
— Jane Goodall
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We're a part of nature. As we destroy nature, we destroy ourselves. It's a selfish thing to want to protect nature.
— Yvon Chouinard
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There is no domestic issue more important to America in the long run than the conservation and proper use of our natural resources, including fresh…
— Gaylord Nelson
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The practice of conservation must spring from a conviction of what is ethically and aesthetically right, as well as what is economically expedient. A thing…
— Aldo Leopold
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We can and should have an abundance of trails for walking, cycling, and horseback riding, in and close to our cities. In the backcountry we…
— Lyndon B. Johnson
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Every twenty minutes on the Appalachian Trail, Katz and I walked farther than the average American walks in a week. For 93 percent of all…
— Bill Bryson
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I have taken a moment here to rest, to steal a view of the glorious vista that surrounds me, to look back on the distance…
— Nelson Mandela
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My life is immeasurably enriched by taking personal responsibility to do what I can, with what I have, where I am....
— Unknown Author
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It's not a pretty picture, but there are reasons for hope.
— Jane Goodall
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This junkyard is an environmental nightmare, strewn with tree stumps, old tires, derelict vehicles, scrap metal and other waste. This owner may be failing to…
— Richard Blumenthal
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Transparency is all about letting in and embracing new ideas, new technology and new approaches. No individual, entity or agency, no matter how smart, how…
— Gina McCarthy
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