Environmental Quotes

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Gardening is civil and social, but it wants the vigor and freedom of the forest and the outlaw. — Henry David Thoreau
Here's what I think the truth is: We are all addicts of fossil fuels in a state of denial, about to face cold turkey. — Kurt Vonnegut
The college idealists who fill the ranks of the environmental movement seem willing to do absolutely anything to save the biosphere, except take science courses… — P.J. O'Rourke
Progress does not have to be patented to be worthwhile. Progress can also be measured by our interactions with nature and its preservation. Can we… — Richard Louv
Our kinship with Earth must be maintained; otherwise, we will find ourselves trapped in the center of our own paved-over souls with no way out. — Terry Tempest Williams
Find your place on the planet. Dig in, and take responsibility from there. — Gary Snyder
[Jellyfish] are 97% water or something, so how much are they doing? Just give them another 3% and make them water. It's more useful. — Karl Pilkington
An environment-based education movement--at all levels of education--will help students realize that school isn't supposed to be a polite form of incarceration, but a portal… — Richard Louv
To me, a witch is a woman that is capable of letting her intuition take hold of her actions, that communes with her environment, that… — Paulo Coelho
Here is your country. Cherish these natural wonders, cherish the natural resources, cherish the history and romance as a sacred heritage, for your children and… — Theodore Roosevelt
The greatest danger to our future is apathy. — Jane Goodall
Contrary to the ecologists, nature does not stand still and does not maintain the kind of equilibrium that guarantees the survival of any particular species… — Ayn Rand
One of the penalties of an ecological education is that one lives alone in a world of wounds. — Aldo Leopold
Is he a dread genetic determinist, or a dread environmental determinist? He is neither, of course, for both these species of bogeyman are as mythical… — Daniel Dennett
All my life I'd been told what to believe about politics, coloreds, being a girl. But with Constantine's thumb pressed in my hand, I realized… — Kathryn Stockett
Environmental degradation is an iatrogenic disease induced by economic physicians who treat the basic malady of unlimited wants by prescribing unlimited growth.... Yet one certainly… — Herman E. Daly
The use of sea and air is common to all; neither can a title to the ocean belong to any people or private persons, forasmuch… — Elizabeth I
I've known rivers: I've known rivers ancient as the world and older than the flow of human blood in human veins. My soul has grown… — Langston Hughes
The global industrial economy is the engine for massive environmental degradation and massive human (and nonhuman) impoverishment. — Derrick Jensen
If it canâ€™t be reduced, reused, repaired, rebuilt, refurbished, refinished, resold, recycled or composted, then it should be restricted, redesigned or removed from production. — Pete Seeger

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