Environmental Quotes

1118 Environmental quotes by 683 unique authors

Maintaining healthy forests is essential to those who make a living from the land and for those of us who use them for recreational purposes. — Cathy McMorris Rodgers
We learned that economic growth and environmental protection can and should go hand in hand. — Christopher Dodd
It is absolutely imperative that we protect, preserve and pass on this genetic heritage for man and every other living thing in as good a… — David R. Brower
It seems that every time mankind is given a lot of energy, we go out and wreck something with it. — David R. Brower
There is no place where we can safely store worn-out reactors or their garbage. No place! — David R. Brower
Mankind is considered (by the radical environmentalists) the lowest and the meanest of all species and is blamed for everything. — Dixie Lee Ray
A knowledgeable and courageous U.S. president could help enormously in leading the world's nations toward saving the climate. — Donella Meadows
I firmly believe that we can have a healthy environment and a sustainable timber industry. — Frank Murkowski
Pushing production out of America to nations without our environmental standards increases global environmental risks. — Frank Murkowski
Whether carbon dioxide is quite the environmental villain that some people make it out to be is not yet proven. — Tony Abbott
Without the oceans there would be no life on Earth. — Peter Benchley
I think so long as fossil fuels are cheap, people will use them and it will postpone a movement towards new technologies. — Paul Krugman
More than ever before, there is a global understanding that long-term social, economic, and environmental development would be impossible without healthy families, communities, and countries — Gro Harlem Brundtland
In the state of Wisconsin it's mandated that teachers in the social sciences and hard sciences have to start giving environmental education by the first… — Gaylord Nelson
I've developed a huge regard for Toyota for its environmental awareness, for its immense commitment to research and development in this field, and for its… — Maurice Strong
One of the things that Ive always thought I would like to do is to develop an environmental index. Then people can measure their own… — Maurice Strong
I reflect back 35 years ago, and look how far we have come in America with our environmental policy to improve the conditions of our… — Jay Inslee
So it is fair to ask, why not address the threat of climate change when it is still possible? Asad Rehman, of the international environmental… — Amy Goodman
We got everyone's attention, but we didn't solve any environmental problems. — Denis Hayes
There really wasn't an environmental movement 30 years ago. The Sierra Club national office in 1969 consisted of one full-time volunteer. — Denis Hayes
Injection of environmental and political perspectives in midstream of the science discussion cannot help the process of inquiry. I believe that persons with relevant scientific… — James Hansen
Some of the environmental lobbyists of the Western nations are the salt of the earth, but many of them are elitists. They've never experienced the… — Norman Borlaug
Only through freedom and environmental experience is it practically possible for human development to occur. — Maria Montessori
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… — Jared Diamond
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… — Jared Diamond

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