Environmentalist Quote by Ilana Mercer

Like environmentalists, politicians generally privilege flora and fauna over folks. (NIMBYs excepted. Senator Edward Kennedy is a not-in-my-backyard environmentalist: he opposes wind farms in…

— Ilana Mercer

Politicians need a better understanding of global ecology. We need to be freed from our species-specific arrogance. No evidence exists that we are 'chosen',…

— Lynn Margulis

Politicians are leaches, mostly.

— Tibor R. Machan

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

Politics is the art of controlling your environment.

— Hunter S. Thompson

“I have a responsibility as a human being to care for animals—including politicians.”

— Jarod Kintz

Every politician, clergyman, educator, or physician, in short, anyone dealing with human individuals, is bound to make grave mistakes if he ignores these two…

— Ernst Mayr

“Politicians are in the process of committing species extinction in honor of their corporate sponsors and the general public are along for the sickening…

— Steven Magee

Most politicians are either generalists or specialists. It's very rare that a politician is both.

— Margrethe Vestager

Ecology's implications for capitalism are too momentous for the capitalist to contemplate. The plutocrats are more wedded to their wealth than to the Earth…

— Michael Parenti

Politics is applied biology.

— Ernst Haeckel

Politicians are leeches, mostly.

— Tibor R. Machan