Environmental Quotes

1118 Environmental quotes by 683 unique authors

The great wilds of our country, once held to be boundless and inexhaustible, are being rapidly invaded and overrun in every direction, and everything destructible… — John Muir
What the new fertilizer technology has accomplished for the farmer is clear: more crop can be produced on less acreage than before. Since the cost… — Barry Commoner
Computer programmers, biotechnologists, environmental scientists, neuroscientists, nanotech engineers - all of these fields, and more, should have at least a course in ethics as part… — Jamais Cascio
While the climate crisis gathers front-page attention on a regular basis, people - even those who profess great environmental consciousness - continue to eat fish… — Daniel Pauly
I do not know of any environmental group in any country that does not view its government as an adversary. — Gro Harlem Brundtland
A social impact bond is a new way of bringing financing into social and environmental support issues. — Judith Rodin
Peace should be understood in a human way - in a broad social, political and economic way. Peace is threatened by unjust economic, social and… — Muhammad Yunus
Climate policy has almost nothing to do anymore with environmental protection, says the German economist and IPCC official Ottmar Edenhofer. The next world climate summit… — Ottmar Edenhofer
Most of what I know about environmental conservation I learned from my father, who has been a leader within the movement for over 30 years. — Edward Norton
I think that the environmental movement is wisely moving away from a largely emotion-based argument for the spiritual or intrinsic value of Nature with a… — Edward Norton
Most of us still believe in the intrinsic value of nature, but I think the first century of the environmental/conservation movement demonstrated pretty clearly that… — Edward Norton
The "environmental movement" is becoming an economic movement, is joining the social justice movement, is becoming a sustainability movement. It's leaving behind the "People's Needs… — Edward Norton
To cite my own alma mater, it's shocking to me that Yale University can teach what it teaches at the Yale School of Environmental Studies… — Edward Norton
I don't think we're going to save anything if we go around talking about saving plants and animals only; we've got to translate that into… — Jim Fowler
During my travels in Iraq, Israel, Gaza, Brazil, Indonesia, Japan, Europe and all over the United States, I have seen and heard the voices of… — Michael Franti
Just as modern mass production requires the standardization of commodities, so the social process requires standardization of man, and this standardization is called equality. — Erich Fromm
Nature provides exceptions to every rule. — Margaret Fuller
The earth is like a spaceship that didn't come with an operating manual. — R. Buckminster Fuller
The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing… — Galileo Galilei
The good man is the friend of all living things. — Mahatma Gandhi
Interdependence is and ought to be as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency. Man is a social being. — Mahatma Gandhi
Climate change is a terrible problem, and it absolutely needs to be solved. It deserves to be a huge priority. — Bill Gates
Understanding the laws of nature does not mean that we are immune to their operations. — David Gerrold
The time is right for electric cars - in fact the time is critical. — Carlos Ghosn
The industrial processes in use today were developed at a time when no one had to consider what the environmental impact was. Who cared? But… — Daniel Goleman

Who Wrote These Environmental Quotes

683 authors contributed a total of 1,118 Environmental Quotes, led by these top contributors: