Quote 7596 | Birds are indicators of the environment. If they are in trouble, we know we'll soon be in trouble. |
Quote 7753 | I think Captain Cousteau might be the father of the environmental movement. |
Quote 7839 | The government should set a goal for a clean environment but not mandate how that goal should be implemented. |
Quote 7851 | I firmly believe that we can have a healthy environment and a sustainable timber industry. |
Quote 7868 | By polluting clear water with slime you will never find good drinking water. |
Quote 7873 | You may be able to fool the voters, but not the atmosphere. |
Quote 7925 | If we bestow but a very little attention to the economy of the animal creation, we shall find manifest examples of premeditation, perseveran... |
Quote 8186 | It is absolutely imperative that we protect, preserve and pass on this genetic heritage for man and every other living thing in as good a co... |
Quote 8190 | Liberals in Congress have spent the past three decades pandering to environmental extremists. The policies they have put in place are in lar... |
Quote 8229 | No one should be able to enter a wilderness by mechanical means. |
Quote 8237 | We assume that everything's becoming more efficient, and in an immediate sense that's true; our lives are better in many ways. But... |
Quote 8467 | In a few decades, the relationship between the environment, resources and conflict may seem almost as obvious as the connection we see today... |
Quote 8476 | Earth Day 1970 was irrefutable evidence that the American people understood the environmental threat and wanted action to resolve it. |
Quote 8479 | The modern assault on the environment began about 50 years ago, during and immediately after World War II. |
Quote 8606 | For me, going vegan was an ethical and environmental decision. I'm doing the right thing by the animals. |
Quote 8753 | Our world faces a true planetary emergency. I know the phrase sounds shrill, and I know it's a challenge to the moral imagination. |
Quote 8984 | I think the cost of energy will come down when we make this transition to renewable energy. |
Quote 9003 | It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment. |
Quote 9040 | Harmony with land is like harmony with a friend; you cannot cherish his right hand and chop off his left. |
Quote 9154 | Environmental degradation, overpopulation, refugees, narcotics, terrorism, world crime movements, and organized crime are worldwide problems... |
Quote 9176 | When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe. |
Quote 9221 | Within 10 years it will be impossible to travel to the North Pole by dog team. There will be too much open water. |
Quote 9316 | People blame their environment. There is only one person to blame - and only one - themselves. |
Quote 9372 | God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them fro... |
Quote 9465 | I consider myself to have been the bridge between the shotgun and the binoculars in bird watching. Before I came along, the primary way to o... |
Quote 9490 | Environmental concern is now firmly embedded in public life: in education, medicine and law; in journalism, literature and art. |
Quote 9507 | Conservation is a state of harmony between men and land. |
Quote 9528 | Maintaining healthy forests is essential to those who make a living from the land and for those of us who use them for recreational purposes... |
Quote 9553 | I think the government has to reposition environment on top of their national and international priorities. |
Quote 9783 | We learned that economic growth and environmental protection can and should go hand in hand. |
Quote 9816 | If we gave up eating beef we would have roughly 20 to 30 times more land for food than we have now. |
Quote 9863 | In a finite world this means that the per capita share of the world's goods must steadily decrease. |
Quote 10115 | The environment is everything that isn't me. |
Quote 10136 | Why has it seemed that the only way to protect the environment is with heavy-handed government regulation? |
Quote 10170 | Take a course in good water and air; and in the eternal youth of Nature you may renew your own. Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you. |
Quote 10348 | People in Slow Food understand that food is an environmental issue. |
Quote 10461 | Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has. |
Quote 10544 | I can find God in nature, in animals, in birds and the environment. |
Quote 10547 | We don't have to sacrifice a strong economy for a healthy environment. |
Quote 10576 | If you violate Nature's laws you are your own prosecuting attorney, judge, jury, and hangman. |
Quote 10765 | I think the environment should be put in the category of our national security. Defense of our resources is just as important as defense abr... |
Quote 10812 | Nuclear power will help provide the electricity that our growing economy needs without increasing emissions. This is truly an environmentall... |
Quote 10949 | We must return to nature and nature's god. |
Quote 11087 | If we do not permit the earth to produce beauty and joy, it will in the end not produce food, either. |
Quote 11234 | All is connected... no one thing can change by itself. |
Quote 11605 | Under the Environmental Protection Agency's Energy Star Program, homes are independently verified to be measurably more energy efficien... |
Quote 11615 | I see humanity now as one vast plant, needing for its highest fulfillment only love, the natural blessings of the great outdoors, and intell... |
Quote 11662 | You will die but the carbon will not; its career does not end with you. It will return to the soil, and there a plant may take it up again i... |
Quote 11681 | Keep close to Nature's heart... and break clear away, once in awhile, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spir... |
Quote 11803 | We are now heading down a centuries-long path toward increasing the productivity of our natural capital - the resource systems upon which we... |
Quote 11804 | If people destroy something replaceable made by mankind, they are called vandals; if they destroy something irreplaceable made by God, they ... |
Quote 11809 | It seems that every time mankind is given a lot of energy, we go out and wreck something with it. |
Quote 11943 | When a man wantonly destroys one of the works of man we call him a vandal. When he destroys one of the works of god we call him a sportsman. |
Quote 12009 | They claim this mother of ours, the Earth, for their own use, and fence their neighbors away from her, and deface her with their buildings a... |
Quote 12041 | In today's world, it is no longer unimaginable to think that business can operate - and even thrive - in an environmentally-friendly ma... |
Quote 12232 | Industry is fortune's right hand, and frugality its left. |
Quote 12367 | Mankind is considered (by the radical environmentalists) the lowest and the meanest of all species and is blamed for everything. |
Quote 12405 | Local innovation and initiative can help us better understand how to protect our environment. |
Quote 12419 | Pushing production out of America to nations without our environmental standards increases global environmental risks. |
Quote 12603 | Why are ecologists and environmentalists so feared and hated? This is because in part what they have to say is new to the general public, an... |
Quote 12683 | Every time I have some moment on a seashore, or in the mountains, or sometimes in a quiet forest, I think this is why the environment has to... |
Quote 12746 | I did not become a vegetarian for my health, I did it for the health of the chickens. |
Quote 12789 | Journey with me to a true commitment to our environment. Journey with me to the serenity of leaving to our children a planet in equilibrium. |
Quote 12803 | The only way forward, if we are going to improve the quality of the environment, is to get everybody involved. |
Quote 12970 | I don't think we're going to save anything if we go around talking about saving plants and animals only; we've got to transla... |
Quote 13199 | Population, when unchecked, goes on doubling itself every 25 years or increases in a geometrical ratio. |
Quote 13222 | Unless we keep this planet healthy, everything else is for naught. |
Quote 13687 | There is no place where we can safely store worn-out reactors or their garbage. No place! |
Quote 13712 | We won't have a society if we destroy the environment. |
Quote 13734 | Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth. |
Quote 13795 | After all, sustainability means running the global environment - Earth Inc. - like a corporation: with depreciation, amortization and mainte... |
Quote 13872 | Not all is doom and gloom. We are beginning to understand the natural world and are gaining a reverence for life - all life. |