Environmental Quotes

1118 quotes by 683 authors

Unprecedented technological capabilities combined with unlimited human creativity have given us tremendous power to take on intractable problems like poverty, unemployment, disease, and environmental degradation.… — Muhammad Yunus
On the environment and climate change, I suspect that future generations will think there was too much timidity, too much fear of upsetting business. Basically,… — Geoff Mulgan
Wealth and vegetation go together, and that exacerbates environmental injustice. The poor bear the burden of degraded environments. — Natalie Jeremijenko
What's it like to envision the ten-thousand-year environmental impact of tossing a plastic bottle into the trash bin, all in the single second it takes… — Douglas Rushkoff
One planet, one experiment. — E. O. Wilson
Only within the moment of time represented by the present century has one species -- man -- acquired significant power to alter the nature of… — Rachel Carson
The global environment crisis is, as we say in Tennessee, real as rain, and I cannot stand the thought of leaving my children with a… — Al Gore
Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit, and as vital to our lives as water and good bread. A civilization… — Edward Abbey
Dear future generations: Please accept our apologies. We were rolling drunk on petroleum. — Kurt Vonnegut
Be true to your work, your word, and your friend. — Henry David Thoreau
The earth will not continue to offer its harvest, except with faithful stewardship. We cannot say we love the land and then take steps to… — Pope John Paul II
Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it. The river was cut by the world's great flood and runs over rocks… — Norman Maclean
A man could be a lover and defender of the wilderness without ever in his lifetime leaving the boundaries of asphalt, powerlines, and right-angled surfaces.… — Edward Abbey
I am glad I will not be young in a future without wilderness. — Aldo Leopold
Oh Beautiful for smoggy skies, insecticided grain, For strip-mined mountain's majesty above the asphalt plain. America, America, man sheds his waste on thee, And hides… — George Carlin
When it occurs to a man that nature does not regard him as important, and that she feels she would not maim the universe by… — Stephen Crane
People would rather believe than know. — E. O. Wilson
God has, in fact, written two books, not just one. Of course, we are all familiar with the first book he wrote, namely Scripture. But… — Francis Bacon
The supreme reality of our time is the vulnerability of our planet. — John F. Kennedy
We're terrible animals. I think that the Earth's immune system is trying to get rid of us, as well it should. — Kurt Vonnegut

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