Environmental Quotes

1118 Environmental quotes by 683 unique authors

33% of urban traffic is actively seeking a parking space. — Donald Shoup
We need to find three Saudi Arabias just to offset [the] decline. — Matthew Simmons
People are saying that they want be convinced [about global warming], perfectly. They want to know the climate science projections with 100 per cent certainty.… — Gordon R. Sullivan
Canada, more than any nation, will be affected by rising sea levels from global warming. — David Suzuki
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… — David Suzuki
In nature there is no such thing as waste. In nature nothing is wasted; everything is recycled. — David Suzuki
Our planet has not seen an extinction crisis as serious as the one in progress for 65 million years. — David Suzuki
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… — David Suzuki
Each of us now has 2.27 kg (5 lbs) of plastic embedded in our bodies. — David Suzuki
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… — David Suzuki
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… — David Suzuki
We do not ride on the railroad; it rides upon us. — Henry David Thoreau
Man must conquer nature. — Mao Zedong
There are no articles any more that dream about the cities of tomorrow. — Neil deGrasse Tyson
COâ‚‚ emissions anywhere threaten civilisation everywhere. — Gore Vidal
Polls consistently show that the majority of Americans favour research using embryonic stem cells and yet politicians continue to pander to the outspoken religious minority… — James D. Watson
We will pay for this [climate change] one way or another. We will pay to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions today and we'll have to take an… — Anthony Zinni
Obviously, nu-que-lar power is, uh, a renewable source of energy, and the less demand there is for non-renewable sources of energy, like fossil fuels, the… — George W. Bush
We don't know what those other cycles were caused by in the past. Could be dinosaur flatulence, you know, or who knows? — Dana Rohrabacher
We seem to have lost the wisdom of the indigenous people, which dictated that in any major decision, the first consideration was 'How will this… — Jane Goodall
Successfully reframing the climate debate in the United States from one based on environmental values to one based on health values...holds great promise to help… — George Mason
There is little history in the study of nature, and there is little nature in the study of history. I want to show how we… — Donald Worster
We may be entering a new phase of history, a time when we begin to rediscover . . . the traditional teaching that power must… — Donald Worster
Environmental historians . . . insist that we have got to go . . . down to the earth itself as an agent and presence… — Donald Worster
Environmental history was . . . born out of a moral purpose, with strong political commitments behind it, but also became, as it matured, a… — Donald Worster

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