Environmental Quotes

1118 Environmental quotes by 683 unique authors

Beyond reducing individual use, one of our top priorities must be to move from fossil fuels to energy that has fewer detrimental effects on water… — David Suzuki
From year to year, environmental changes are incremental and often barely register in our lives, but from evolutionary or geological perspectives, what is happening is… — David Suzuki
If we want to address global warming, along with the other environmental problems associated with our continued rush to burn our precious fossil fuels as… — David Suzuki
The NFL, sadly, has a fatal environmental problem: It kills its workers. — Matt Taibbi
It hurts the spirit, somehow, to read the word environments, when the plural means that there are so many alternatives there to be sorted through,… — Lewis Thomas
Every creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and pine trees, and he who understands it aright will rather preserve its life than… — Henry David Thoreau
Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth. — Henry David Thoreau
If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer.… — Henry David Thoreau
What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on? — Henry David Thoreau
Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends... Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts. — Henry David Thoreau
It appears to be a law that you cannot have a deep sympathy with both man and nature. — Henry David Thoreau
If you can't be in awe of Mother Nature, there's something wrong with you. — Alex Trebek
Journey with me to a true commitment to our environment. Journey with me to the serenity of leaving to our children a planet in equilibrium. — Paul Tsongas
Sacred spaces can be created in any environment. — Christy Turlington
I think Captain Cousteau might be the father of the environmental movement. — Ted Turner
Plans to protect air and water, wilderness and wildlife are in fact plans to protect man. — Stewart Udall
Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them. — Bill Vaughan
Think of the earth as a living organism that is being attacked by billions of bacteria whose numbers double every forty years. Either the host… — Gore Vidal
In rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and the first of that which comes; so with present time. — Leonardo da Vinci
I really wonder what gives us the right to wreck this poor planet of ours. — Kurt Vonnegut
When we realize we can make a buck cleaning up the environment, it will be done! — Dennis Weaver
We don't have to sacrifice a strong economy for a healthy environment. — Dennis Weaver
People who run environmental groups and things like that, who have to listen to all kinds of nonsense and keep their tempers, are very diplomatic… — Sigourney Weaver
We need to accept the seemingly obvious fact that a toxic environment can make people sick and that no amount of medical intervention can protect… — Andrew Weil
Economists treat economics as if it is a pure science divorced from the facts of life. The result of this false accountancy is a willful… — Vivienne Westwood

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