Environmental Quotes

1118 Environmental quotes by 683 unique authors

Curing environmental ills requires not a stance outside nature, but a stance within nature, a role not as onlooker without, but as an actor within. — Valerius Geist
There are fewer chemical pollutants in the air. Our drinking water is safer. Our food standards have been raised. We've cleaned up more toxic waste… — William J. Clinton
You go into a community and they will vote 80 percent to 20 percent in favor of a tougher Clean Air Act, but if you… — William Ruckelshaus
Today when the public thinks of the products of science it is likely to think about environmental problems, an unproductive armament industry, careless or dishonest… — Unknown Author
I'm not sure what solutions we'll find to deal with all our environmental problems, but I'm sure of this: They will be provided by industry;… — Unknown Author
The planetary phase of history has begun, but the future shape of global society remains profoundly uncertain. Though perhaps improbable, a shift toward a planetary… — Unknown Author
The ecological crisis shows the urgency of a solidarity which embraces time and space... A greater sense of intergenerational solidarity is urgently needed. Future generations… — Pope Benedict XVI
We can drift along as though there were still a cold war, wasting hundreds of billions of dollars on weapons that will never be used,… — Jimmy Carter
We're gonna be using American produced, American energy that will create jobs in the United States, will create a far more secure source of energy… — Ray Mabus
But one must say clearly that we redistribute de facto the world's wealth by climate policy...One has to free oneself from the illusion that international… — Ottmar Edenhofer
I am unapologetic about asking people to connect up their own responsibility for their total environmental footprint and how they decide to procreate and how… — Jonathon Porritt
Climate change is the world's greatest environmental challenge. It is now plain that the emission of greenhouse gases, associated with industrialization and economic growth...is causing… — Tony Blair
The concept of national sovereignty has been an immutable, indeed sacred, principle of international relations. It is a principle which will yield only slowly and… — Maurice Strong
The destruction of aquatic ecosystem health, and the increasing water scarcity, are in my opinion the most pressing environmental problems facing human kind. — Maude Barlow
The number of people displaced by dams is estimated at between 40 million and 80 million, most of them in China and India. The costs… — Paul Brown
The essential role of the environment is still marginal in discussions about poverty. While we continue to debate these initiatives, environmental degradation, including the loss… — Wangari Maathai
The young generation can influence their elders and can make them understand the environmental problems that are faced by us today. The youth can make… — Oren Lyons
In less than a century we experienced great movement. The youth movement! The labor movement! The civil rights movement! The peace movement! The solidarity movement!… — Holly Near
We can't impede progress in the name of environmental action that yields little for the environment and even less for our people.. and we should… — Meg Whitman
There is no question that photography has played a major role in the environmental movement. — Galen Rowell
Nature is the mother and the habitat of man, even if sometimes a stepmother and an unfriendly home. — John Dewey
Now we see evolutionary trends in a variety of areas ranging from atomic and molecular physics through fluid mechanics, chemistry and biology to large scale… — Ilya Prigogine
The essence of globalization is a subordination of human rights, of labor rights, consumer, environmental rights, democracy rights, to the imperatives of global trade and… — Ralph Nader
Our nation has both an obligation and self-interest in facing head-on the serious environmental, economic and national security threat posed by global warming. — John McCain
Global warming is not just the greatest environmental challenge facing our planet - it is one of our greatest challenges of any kind. — Barack Obama

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