Activist Quote by David Bergland

Politicians usually get the blame for dragging their feet on environmental issues. And fair enough. Most of them do just that. But the blame…

— Zac Goldsmith

For way too long the politicians and people in power have got away with not doing anything at all to fight the climate crisis…

— Greta Thunburg

Why has it seemed that the only way to protect the environment is with heavy-handed government regulation?

— Gale Norton

The environmental agenda seems swept under the rug a lot, and environmentalists are looked at as tree-huggers who aren't dealing with the real issues…

— Rachel Dratch

That's what hurts the environmental movement - holding people to a standard they cannot meet. That just pushes people away.

— Laurie David

I think one of the things that's happening is that people are realizing that they can't pass the buck to the government because the…

— Donald Trump

We're not trying to reinvent the wheel; for any environmental organization to claim sole responsibility for any kind of victory is insane, because everybody…

— Ted Danson

The environmental movement does not always have to be about stopping things. It can be about fixing problems.

— Mark Kurlansky

If as an environmentalist we are against anything... it is against the arrogance of power and the most obcene ways it shows up, which…

— John Denver

The environment has fallen to the wayside in politics.

— Craig Venter

Environmentalists needed to stop imagining that they were representing a thing called Nature or the Environment, separate from us (e.g. humans) in politics.

— Ted Nordhaus

...because there are no local or State boundaries to the problems of our environment, the Federal Government must play an active, positive role. We…

— Richard M. Nixon