Environmental Quotes

Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.

It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment.

A very Faustian choice is upon us: whether to accept our corrosive and risky behavior as the unavoidable price of population and economic growth, or to take stock of ourselves and search for a new environmental ethic.

In this country, the health concerns and the environmental concerns are as deep as in Europe. All the surveys show that. But here, we didn't have the cultural dimension. This is a fast-food culture.

At every turn, when humanity is asked the question, 'Do you want temporary economic gain or long-term environmental loss, which one do you prefer,' we invariably choose the money.

Like I said, I'm more worried long term about the environmental issues then the use of arms.

I don't think it's too hippie to want to clean up the planet so you don't wind up dying of some kind of cancer when you're 45 years old. It enrages me that these big cancer-research organizations can't be bothered to man the front lines of environmental protest.

We have fought for social justice. We have fought for economic justice. We have fought for environmental justice. We have fought for criminal justice. Now we must add a new fight - the fight for electoral justice.

My idea of an amusement park story is getting adventurers to go tour environmental disaster areas. After all, if the entire Great Barrier Reef gets killed, which seems like an extremely lively possibility, what are you going to do with all that rotting limestone?

The modern assault on the environment began about 50 years ago, during and immediately after World War II.

The government should set a goal for a clean environment but not mandate how that goal should be implemented.

A shift is necessary toward lifestyles less geared to environmental damaging consumption patterns.

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 in time, sending it once more on a cycle of plant and animal life.

We should restore a proper balance in environmental regulation and energy production that is based on common sense, not political agendas.

I don't see this planet being... they're talking about how they're turning around the environmental problems here, but I think it's already too late.

I think the government has to reposition environment on top of their national and international priorities.

Franklin Roosevelt was very concerned about environmental issues.

My entry into the environmental arena was through the issue that so dramatically - and destructively - demonstrates the link between science and social action: nuclear weapons.

People in Slow Food understand that food is an environmental issue.

I always thought we had an environmental problem, but I hadn't realized how urgent it was. James Lovelock writes that by the end of this century there will be one billion people left.

You cannot achieve environmental security and human development without addressing the basic issues of health and nutrition.

Environmental quality was drastically improved while economic activity grew by the simple expedient of removing lead from gasoline - which prevented it from entering the environment.

The environment is everything that isn't me.

I believe we should reframe our response to climate change as an imperative for growth rather than merely being a way of being green or meeting environmental commitments.

The environmental benefits of hydrogen are also outstanding. When used as an energy source, hydrogen produces no emissions besides water. Zero polluting emissions, an amazing advance over the current sources of energy that we use.

For me, going vegan was an ethical and environmental decision. I'm doing the right thing by the animals.

Our work on light bulbs wasn't an arbitrary mandate. We didn't just pick a standard out of the air, or look for a catchy sounding standard like 25 by 2025 not based in science or feasibility. Instead, we worked with both industry and environmental groups to come up with a standard that made sense and was doable.

We won't have a society if we destroy the environment.

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.

Harmony with land is like harmony with a friend; you cannot cherish his right hand and chop off his left.