Environmental Quotes
1118 Environmental quotes by 683 unique authors
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Nature provides exceptions to every rule.
— Margaret Fuller
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The earth is like a spaceship that didn't come with an operating manual.
— R. Buckminster Fuller
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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
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The good man is the friend of all living things.
— Mahatma Gandhi
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Interdependence is and ought to be as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency. Man is a social being.
— Mahatma Gandhi
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Climate change is a terrible problem, and it absolutely needs to be solved. It deserves to be a huge priority.
— Bill Gates
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Understanding the laws of nature does not mean that we are immune to their operations.
— David Gerrold
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The time is right for electric cars - in fact the time is critical.
— Carlos Ghosn
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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
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We can't leave people in abject poverty, so we need to raise the standard of living for 80% of the world's people, while bringing it…
— Jane Goodall
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I think the cost of energy will come down when we make this transition to renewable energy.
— Al Gore
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Our world faces a true planetary emergency. I know the phrase sounds shrill, and I know it's a challenge to the moral imagination.
— Al Gore
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I took the initiative in moving forward a whole range of initiatives that have proven to be important to our country's economic growth, environmental protection,…
— Al Gore
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A lot of fun stuff happens when you go out on a bike compared to when you're in a car. You're more in the environment.…
— Stone Gossard
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