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Environmental Quotes by Lester R. Brown
- Nations are in effect ceding portions of their sovereignty to the international community and beginning to create a new system of international environmental governance.
- Among the environmental trends undermining our future are shrinking forests, expanding deserts, falling water tables, collapsing fisheries, disappearing species, and rising temperatures. The temperature increases…
- Today, more than ever, we need political leaders who can see the big picture, who understand the relationship between the economy and its environmental support…
- Socialism failed because it couldn't tell the economic truth. Capitalism may fail because it couldn't tell the ecological truth.
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