College Quote by Pete McCloskey

The great successes of the modern environmental movement in the '60s and '70s had laid the seeds of their failure in the early years…

— Ted Nordhaus

“For decades, the environmental movement had enjoyed bipartisan support. As public opinion mounted in favor of climate action, however, the fossil fuel industry organized…

— Jane Mayer

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

The environment has become a political, polarizing issue.

— Harrison Ford

We created the Cabinet Committee on the Environment to review the environmental implications of all government initiatives. I think what made us successful was…

— Brian Mulroney

There are insistent calls for autonomy, appeals for a new resource ethic based on the tradition of the commons, demands for the reinstatement of…

— Paul Hawken

Ever since I've been in Congress, various groups on the business side, those entities that are creating jobs out there, have felt that the…

— Ed Whitfield

The movement for the environment really only started in the mid 1970's.

— Anita Roddick

“Environmentalists had enjoyed modest successes during the New Frontier-Great Society years: a Clean Air Act in 1963, a Wilderness Act in 1964, a Clean…

— James T. Patterson

It was truly an astonishing grassroots explosion, ... The objective was to get a nationwide demonstration of concern for the environment so large that…

— Gaylord Nelson

I tell my environmental friends that they have won. Every issue we look at from an energy perspective is now also looked at from…

— Joe Barton

We must set an example now and move environmentalism from being the philosophy of a passionate minority ... to a way of life that…

— Leonardo DiCaprio