Environmental Quotes

1118 Environmental quotes by 683 unique authors

You know what happens when windmills collapse into the sea? A splash. — Bill Maher
One way to open your eyes is to ask yourself, "What if I had never seen this before? What if I knew i would never… — Rachel Carson
Nothing living should ever be treated with contempt. Whatever it is that lives, a man, a tree, or a bird, should be touched gently, because… — Elizabeth Goudge
If the bee disappeared off the face of the earth, man would only have four years left to live. — Maurice Maeterlinck
To be whole. To be complete. Wildness reminds us what it means to be human, what we are connected to rather than what we are… — Terry Tempest Williams
People often ask, "What is the single most important environmental population problem facing the world today?" A flip answer would be, "The single most important… — Jared Diamond
For anyone inclined to caricature environmental history as 'environmental determinism,' the contrasting histories of the Dominican Republic and Haiti provide a useful antidote. Yes, environmental… — Jared Diamond
The human race is challenged more than ever before to demonstrate our mastery, not over nature but of ourselves. — Rachel Carson
What we do flows from who we are. — Charles Colson
Simple determinism, whether of the genetic or environmental kind, is a depressing prospect for those with a fondness for free will. — Matt Ridley
...I thought how I hate any kind of mob - I hate mobs of sports fans, mobs of environmental demonstrators, I even hate mobs of… — Steve Toltz
Our inability to think beyond our own species, or to be able to co-habit with other life forms in what is patently a massive collaborative… — Lawrence Anthony
We have a responsibility toward the other life-forms of our planet whose continued existence is threatened by the thoughtless behavior of our own human species.… — Jane Goodall
If I had to define a major depression in a single sentence, I would describe it as a "genetic/neurochemical disorder requiring a strong environmental trigger… — Robert M. Sapolsky
Be gentle with the earth. — Dalai Lama
Few places in this world are more dangerous than home. Fear not, therefore, to try the mountain passes. They will kill care, save you from… — John Muir
Marketers... Can't simply put a more environmentally friendly package on the shelves and assume that shoppers will recognize and appreciate the change. If the goal… — Scott Young
All is connected ... no one thing can change by itself. — Paul Hawken
In addition to contributing to erosion, pollution, food poisoning, and the dead zone, corn requires huge amounts of fossil fuel - it takes a half… — Michael Pollan
The fact of the matter is that today, stuff-selling mega-corporations have a huge influence on our daily lives. And because of the competitive nature of… — David Suzuki
Any time a body goes outside the environmental conditions for which it developed it has to acclimate. — Vanna Bonta
A solitary American monk named Thomas Berry writes that in our relationship to nature, we have been autistic for centuries. Wrapped tightly in our own… — Janine Benyus
Failing to curb the impact of climate change could damage the global economy on the scale of the Great Depression or the world wars by… — Nicholas Stern
At Current, television is all we do - that's our business. We don't have amusement parks I have to worry about, we don't have environmental… — Keith Olbermann
Biology is a science of three dimensions. The first is the study of each species across all levels of biological organization, molecule to cell to… — E. O. Wilson

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