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Environmental Quotes by James Lovelock
- Our future is like that of the passengers on a small pleasure boat sailing quietly above the Niagara Falls, not knowing that the engines are…
- The Earth's population will be culled from today's 6.6 billion to as few as 500 million, with most of the survivors living in the far…
- By 2040, the Sahara will be moving into Europe and Berlin will be as hot as Baghdad. Atlanta will end up a kudzu jungle. Phoenix…
- Those who fail to see that population growth and climate change are two sides of the same coin are either ignorant or hiding from the…
- Sadly, it's much easier to create a desert than a forest.
- If we gave up eating beef we would have roughly 20 to 30 times more land for food than we have now.
- China will soon emit more greenhouse gases than America, but its regime knows if it caps aspirations there will be a revolution.
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- 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
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- To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival. — Wendell Berry