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Environmental Quotes by David Suzuki
- Salmon farming-the placement of large metal or mesh net cages in the ocean to grow fish-was pioneered in Norway in the 1960s. Since then, the…
- Although they [light and medium trucks] have only 5% of the transportation market..., they account for fully 35% of greenhouse gas emissions from freight transportation.
- Less than 10% of the fuel energy burned in automobiles is translated into forward motion of the vehicle and even then most of this energy…
- Canada, more than any nation, will be affected by rising sea levels from global warming.
- Humans are now the most numerous mammal on the planet. There are more humans than rats or mice. Humans have a huge ecological footprint, magnified…
- In nature there is no such thing as waste. In nature nothing is wasted; everything is recycled.
- Our planet has not seen an extinction crisis as serious as the one in progress for 65 million years.
- There is a gyre of discarded floating plastic the size of the continental USA in the ocean. In it, plastic trash outweighs plankton 40 to…
- Each of us now has 2.27 kg (5 lbs) of plastic embedded in our bodies.
- The terrible part of this looming catastrophe is that people have been working on solutions for years and have developed concrete steps to massively reduce…
- Danish studies of 10,000 birds killed revealed that almost all died in collisions with buildings, cars and wires; only 10 were killed by windmills. Alternative…
- And that, quite simply, is the issue. We live in a finite world with finite resources. Although it may sometimes seem quite big, earth is…
- Over and over, we hear politicians say they can't spend our tax dollars on environmental protection when the economy is so fragile.
- In the environmental movement, every time you lose a battle it's for good, but our victories always seem to be temporary and we keep fighting…
- It's not unexpected that shooting massive amounts of water, sand, and chemicals at high pressure into the earth to shatter shale and release natural gas…
- Our personal consumer choices have ecological, social, and spiritual consequences. It is time to re-examine some of our deeply held notions that underlie our lifestyles.
- Beyond reducing individual use, one of our top priorities must be to move from fossil fuels to energy that has fewer detrimental effects on water…
- From year to year, environmental changes are incremental and often barely register in our lives, but from evolutionary or geological perspectives, what is happening is…
- If we want to address global warming, along with the other environmental problems associated with our continued rush to burn our precious fossil fuels as…
- The fact of the matter is that today, stuff-selling mega-corporations have a huge influence on our daily lives. And because of the competitive nature of…
- I always felt that if someone shot me, it would be great for the environmental movement, because they would make me a martyr. Our biggest…
More Environmental Quotes
- 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… — David Attenborough
- All we can hope for is that the thing is going to slowly and imperceptibly shift. All I can say is that… — 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… — 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… — Joe Barton
- The insufferable arrogance of human beings to think that Nature was made solely for their benefit, as if it was conceivable that… — 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… — Wendell Berry
- To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival. — Wendell Berry