Environmental Quotes

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.

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.

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.

I think the cost of energy will come down when we make this transition to renewable energy.

Address these environmental issues and you will address every issue known to man. And we keep dabbling in things that aren't really that important in the long term.

Global markets must be balanced by global values such as respect for human rights and international law, democracy, security and sustainable economic and environmental development.

In a finite world this means that the per capita share of the world's goods must steadily decrease.

I like the outdoors and the natural world. Environmental issues.

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.

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.

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.

Conservation is a state of harmony between men and land.

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 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.

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

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.

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.

Just as there's garbage that pollutes the Potomac river, there is garbage polluting our culture. We need an Environmental Protection Agency to clean it up.

The infrastructure for linking environmental health and public health is not working as well as it should.

Nature is not simply a technical or economical resource, and human beings are not mere numbers. To suggest that one can somehow align all the squabbling institutions of science, environmental management, government and diplomacy in an alliance of convenience to regulate the global climate seems to me optimistic.

We don't have to sacrifice a strong economy for a healthy environment.