Environmental Quotes

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Plans to protect air and water, wilderness and wildlife are in fact plans to protect man. — Stewart Udall
Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them. — Bill Vaughan
Think of the earth as a living organism that is being attacked by billions of bacteria whose numbers double every forty years. Either the host… — Gore Vidal
In rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and the first of that which comes; so with present time. — Leonardo da Vinci
I really wonder what gives us the right to wreck this poor planet of ours. — Kurt Vonnegut
When we realize we can make a buck cleaning up the environment, it will be done! — Dennis Weaver
We don't have to sacrifice a strong economy for a healthy environment. — Dennis Weaver
People who run environmental groups and things like that, who have to listen to all kinds of nonsense and keep their tempers, are very diplomatic… — Sigourney Weaver
We need to accept the seemingly obvious fact that a toxic environment can make people sick and that no amount of medical intervention can protect… — Andrew Weil
Economists treat economics as if it is a pure science divorced from the facts of life. The result of this false accountancy is a willful… — Vivienne Westwood
I always thought we had an environmental problem, but I hadn't realized how urgent it was. James Lovelock writes that by the end of this… — Vivienne Westwood
It is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all. — Laura Ingalls Wilder
If all mankind were to disappear, the world would regenerate back to the rich state of equilibrium that existed ten thousand years ago. If insects… — E. O. Wilson
Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal. — E. O. Wilson
Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction. — E. O. Wilson
A very Faustian choice is upon us: whether to accept our corrosive and risky behavior as the unavoidable price of population and economic growth, or… — E. O. Wilson
For I have learned to look on nature, not as in the hour of thoughtless youth, but hearing oftentimes the still, sad music of humanity. — William Wordsworth
I think God's going to come down and pull civilization over for speeding. — Steven Wright
If China is helping its domestic industries charge an artificially low price for solar panels and other environmental goods, then China is violating international trade… — Ron Wyden
Civilization has given us enormous successes: going to the moon, technology. But then this is the civilisation that took us to debt, environmental crisis, every… — Muhammad Yunus

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