Environmental Quotes

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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
All our environmental problems become easier to solve with fewer people and harder - and ultimately impossible to solve - with ever more people. — David Attenborough
All we can hope for is that the thing is going to slowly and imperceptibly shift. All I can say is that 50 years ago… — David Attenborough
If one of the arguments against eating meat is to do with cruelty and animal intelligence, then lab meat avoids that. There's also the environmental… — Margaret Atwood
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
Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it. — Russell Baker
It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment. — Ansel Adams
The idea of wilderness needs no defense, it only needs defenders. — Edward Abbey
I would point out that if you're a believer in the Bible, one would have to say the Great Flood is an example of climate… — Joe Barton
The insufferable arrogance of human beings to think that Nature was made solely for their benefit, as if it was conceivable that the sun had… — Cyrano de Bergerac
The care of the Earth is our most ancient and most worthy, and after all our most pleasing responsibility. To cherish what remains of it… — Wendell Berry
To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival. — Wendell Berry
I don't think it's too hippie to want to clean up the planet so you don't wind up dying of some kind of cancer when… — Jello Biafra
This is absolutely bizarre that we continue to subsidize highways beyond the gasoline tax, airlines, and we don't subsidize, we don't want to subsidize a… — Joe Biden
By polluting clear water with slime you will never find good drinking water. — Aeschylus
We have fought for social justice. We have fought for economic justice. We have fought for environmental justice. We have fought for criminal justice. Now… — Barbara Boxer
Every time I have some moment on a seashore, or in the mountains, or sometimes in a quiet forest, I think this is why the… — Bill Bradley
You will die but the carbon will not; its career does not end with you. It will return to the soil, and there a plant… — Jacob Bronowski
You cannot achieve environmental security and human development without addressing the basic issues of health and nutrition. — Gro Harlem Brundtland
Nature is not simply a technical or economical resource, and human beings are not mere numbers. To suggest that one can somehow align all the… — James Buchan

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