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Environmental Quotes by Jared Diamond
- Federal elections happen every two years in this country. Presidential elections every four years. And four years just isn't long enough to dismantle all the…
- I decided that now is the time to start doing the things that really interest me and I find important. It was in the 10…
- Take air quality in the United States today: It's about 30 percent better than it was 25 years ago, even though there are now more…
- People often ask, "What is the single most important environmental population problem facing the world today?" A flip answer would be, "The single most important…
- For anyone inclined to caricature environmental history as 'environmental determinism,' the contrasting histories of the Dominican Republic and Haiti provide a useful antidote. Yes, environmental…
- Decided that now is the time to start doing the things that really interest me and I find important. It was in the 10 years…
More Environmental Quotes
- 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
- All our environmental problems become easier to solve with fewer people and harder - and ultimately impossible to solve - with ever… — David Attenborough
- 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
- This is absolutely bizarre that we continue to subsidize highways beyond the gasoline tax, airlines, and we don't subsidize, we don't want… — Joe Biden
- While there are many who would say that the race to the moon was hardly green, many others have noted that the… — John F. Kennedy
- The life in us is like the water in the river. It may rise this year higher than man has ever known… — Henry David Thoreau
- The global environment crisis is, as we say in Tennessee, real as rain, and I cannot stand the thought of leaving my… — Al Gore
- 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