Bears Quote by Natalie Jeremijenko

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

Consider the willful scorching of the earth, over-fishing, wasteful hunting, excessive and dangerous recycling of resources, and other similar "injustices" against the ways of…

— Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I of Constantinople

In effect, a selfish and boundless thirst for power and material prosperity leads both to the misuse of available natural resources and to the…

— Pope Francis

The transformation of forests into deserts, fertile earth into sunbaked concrete, and running rivers into silted floodwaters show that only through care for the…

— Petra Kelly

“… what right [do] people in wealthy countries have to blame the poor for their poverty, much less for humanity’s environmental dilemma, when it…

— Mark Hertsgaard

“In many areas, too, people are having to deal with environmental problems and, with these, threats to their livelihood and worse. At the same…

— Dalai Lama XIV

As Charles Darwin said,'The economy shown by Nature in her resources is striking,'' says the Spirit. 'All wealth comes from Nature. Without it, there…

— Margaret Atwood

Poverty and backwardness in the midst of clear waters and verdant mountains is no good, nor is it to have prosperity and wealth while…

— Li Keqiang

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

Economic dynamism can be combined with environmental and social responsibility. High financial returns can go hand in hand with respect for human rights, and…

— David Miliband

The gap between the rich and poor is growing among and within most nations. The political and social effects of unequal location of energy…

— Gilbert F. White

Dispossessed peasants slash-and-burn their way into the rain forests of Latin America, hungry nomads turn their herds out into fragile African rangeland, reducing it…

— Alan Thein Durning