Environmental Quotes
1118 Environmental quotes by 683 unique authors
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It is one of the issues that will have to be worked through however let me make the point and I think anyone would accept…
— John Anderson
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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…
— Lester R. Brown
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Complexity is one of the great problems in environmental design.
— Christopher Alexander
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No amount of outer technology, no amount of computers and biotechnology and nanotechnology is going to stop the continuation of warfare and racism and environmental…
— Jack Kornfield
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Cars don't cause pollution, trees do.
— Ronald Reagan
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America has not led but fled on the issue of global warming.
— John F. Kerry
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Sharks are just evil bastards. I'm quite happy if all the sharks just went, because they eat fish and us. And we need the fish.
— Eddie Izzard
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Socialism failed because it couldn't tell the economic truth. Capitalism may fail because it couldn't tell the ecological truth.
— Lester R. Brown
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It took Britain half the resources of the planet to achieve its prosperity; how many planets will a country like India require?
— Mahatma Gandhi
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It doesn't have the ability to think rationally this economic model. It thinks like a drug addict: 'Where can I get my next fix?' It…
— Naomi Klein
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Would you take a billion dollars, if as part of the deal the Earth were made uninhabitable a year after your death? ... well, of…
— John Cleese
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If we save the planet and have a society of inequality, we wouldn't have saved much.
— James H. Cone
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I think every discovery of the world plunges us into jubilation, a radical amazement that tears apart the veil of triviality.
— Judy Cannato
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The universe is an inexhaustible celebration of ultimate mystery!
— Brian Swimme
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Because of the Incarnation, I salute all remaining matter with reverence.
— John of Damascus
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Everything in nature is resurrection.
— William Butler Yeats
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Where the earth is, we are.
— Walt Whitman
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Any human being exists only as a member of the wider community of life, air, water, and soil. We have no existence apart from the…
— Michael Dowd
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The day is not far distant when humanity will realize that biologically it is faced with a choice between suicide and adoration.
— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
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When civilization stands at the edge of a cliff, a step forward doesn't make much sense.
— Denis Hayes
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I became an actor at a very young age, but I also had a deep respect for nature and I think I was sort of…
— Leonardo DiCaprio
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Being vegan truly is the secret to my life's joy and peace. I feel physically and spiritually better than I could have ever imagined knowing…
— Alicia Silverstone
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Looking around the world at these wildlife, it's abundantly clear that humans have benefited from nature in so many ways but have also brought many…
— Ian Somerhalder
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Obviously, when I learn about something new that I can do in my everyday life that makes a whole lot of sense and can help…
— Jennifer Aniston
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The meter is ticking [particularly in the face of climate change], so you've got to get to as much as you can as fast as…
— Robert Redford
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