Environmental Quotes

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When people align around shared political, social, economic or environmental values, and take collective action, thinking and behaviour that compromises the lives of millions of… — Simon Mainwaring
We need a new environmental consciousness on a global basis. To do this, we need to educate people. — Mikhail Gorbachev
Birds ... are sensitive indicators of the environment, a sort of "ecological litmus paper," ... The observation and recording of bird populations over time lead… — Roger Tory Peterson
Environmental extremists ... wouldn't let you build a house unless it looked like a bird's nest. — Ronald Reagan
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… — Al Gore
Do you realize we've got 250 million years of coal? But coal has got environmental hazards to it, but there's-I'm convinced, and I know that… — George W. Bush
Neo-Darwinian language and conceptual structure itself ensures scientific failure: Major questions posed by zoologists cannot be answered from inside the neo-Darwinian straitjacket. Such questions include,… — Lynn Margulis
Professionalism is environmental. Amateurism is anti environmental. Professionalism merges the individual into patterns of total environment. Amateurism seeks the development of the total awareness of… — Marshall McLuhan
Energy Policy will be and should be driven by environmental policy in the future. — Tim Wirth
The Christian gospel is a two-way road. On the one hand, it seeks to change the souls of men, and thereby unite them with God;… — Martin Luther
Curing environmental ills requires not a stance outside nature, but a stance within nature, a role not as onlooker without, but as an actor within. — Valerius Geist
There are fewer chemical pollutants in the air. Our drinking water is safer. Our food standards have been raised. We've cleaned up more toxic waste… — William J. Clinton
You go into a community and they will vote 80 percent to 20 percent in favor of a tougher Clean Air Act, but if you… — William Ruckelshaus
Today when the public thinks of the products of science it is likely to think about environmental problems, an unproductive armament industry, careless or dishonest… — Unknown Author
I'm not sure what solutions we'll find to deal with all our environmental problems, but I'm sure of this: They will be provided by industry;… — Unknown Author
The planetary phase of history has begun, but the future shape of global society remains profoundly uncertain. Though perhaps improbable, a shift toward a planetary… — Unknown Author
The ecological crisis shows the urgency of a solidarity which embraces time and space... A greater sense of intergenerational solidarity is urgently needed. Future generations… — Pope Benedict XVI
We can drift along as though there were still a cold war, wasting hundreds of billions of dollars on weapons that will never be used,… — Jimmy Carter
We're gonna be using American produced, American energy that will create jobs in the United States, will create a far more secure source of energy… — Ray Mabus
But one must say clearly that we redistribute de facto the world's wealth by climate policy...One has to free oneself from the illusion that international… — Ottmar Edenhofer

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