Climate Quote by Indira Gandhi

The essential role of the environment is still marginal in discussions about poverty. While we continue to debate these initiatives, environmental degradation, including the…

— Wangari Maathai

We tend to put the environment last because we think the first thing we have to do is eliminate poverty. But you can't reduce…

— Wangari Maathai

We cannot feast on global resources while the world's poor struggle to survive on inhospitable lands. It is as simple as that. It is…

— Petra Kelly

We need a more prosperous environment.

— Patrick Hunt

We live in a country with a vast majority of people below the poverty line. Our natural resources are limited and getting scarcer.

— Amala Akkineni

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…

— Jane Goodall

The living conditions of the poor must be improved if we really want to save our environment

— Wangari Maathai

Poor people of all colors are getting poorer and our communities are getting more toxic. There is a misconception that to grow our economy…

— Majora Carter

We can't impede progress in the name of environmental action that yields little for the environment and even less for our people.. and we…

— Meg Whitman

We say we need to clean up the environment; to clean up the environment, we need to be richer. But maybe getting richer is…

— Anonymous

If we intend to provide a better life, and a better world, for future generations, we can't ignore the quality of the environment we…

— John Kasich

We are very fond of blaming the poor for destroying the environment. But often it is the powerful, including governments, that are responsible.

— Wangari Maathai