Environment Quotes

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

^{Gro Harlem Brundtland}

36. Energy conservation is the foundation of energy independence. – Environmental quotes

^{Tom Allen}

37. All is connected… no one thing can change by itself.

^{Paul Hawken}

38. I think the environment should be put in the category of our national security. Defense of our resources is just as important as defense abroad. Otherwise what is there to defend?

^{Robert Redford}

39. In a few decades, the relationship between the environment, resources and conflict may seem almost as obvious as the connection we see today between human rights, democracy and peace.

^{Wangari Maathai}

40. We must return to nature and nature’s god. – Environmental quotes

^{Luther Burbank}

41. Mother Nature is not sweet. – Environmental quotes

^{John Shelby Spong}

42. If we do not permit the earth to produce beauty and joy, it will in the end not produce food, either.

^{Joseph Wood Krutch}

43. 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.

^{Jacob Bronowski}

44. Birds are indicators of the environment. If they are in trouble, we know we’ll soon be in trouble.

^{Roger Tory Peterson}

45. We learned that economic growth and environmental protection can and should go hand in hand. – Environmental quotes

^{Christopher Dodd}

46. We are aware only of the empty space in the forest, which only yesterday was filled with trees.

^{Anna Freud}

47. If you cut down a forest, it doesn’t matter how many sawmills you have if there are no more trees.

^{Susan George}

48. Environmentalism is a form of pagan fundamentalism. These green wackos are fanatics like al-Quaida. Just like them. – Environmental quotes

^{G. Gordon Liddy}

49. I really believe in the environmental movement right now – it only takes a little effort to make a big difference.

^{Brooke Burke}

50. Our world faces a true planetary emergency. I know the phrase sounds shrill, and I know it’s a challenge to the moral imagination.

^{Al Gore}

51. Just as modern mass production requires the standardization of commodities, so the social process requires standardization of man, and this standardization is called equality.

^{Erich Fromm}

52. The hydrogen powered car, with its high fuel mileage and zero emission rate, is just one example of the products under development that will help increase our energy independence.

^{Dan Lipinski}

53. There is a muscular energy in sunlight corresponding to the spiritual energy of wind. – Environmental quotes

^{Annie Dillard}

54. Local innovation and initiative can help us better understand how to protect our environment. – Environmental quotes

^{Gale Norton}

55. Without the oceans there would be no life on Earth. – Environmental quotes

^{Peter Benchley}

56. Mother Nature comes up against reality, and the reality is that the system doesn’t work.

^{John Garamendi}

57. The sooner we get started with alternative energy sources and recognize that fossil fuels makes us less secure as a nation, and more dangerous as a planet, the better off we’ll be.

^{Lindsey Graham}

58. Every creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and pine trees, and he who understands it aright will rather preserve its life than destroy it.

^{Henry David Thoreau}

59. The quicker we humans learn that saving open space and wildlife is critical to our welfare and quality of life, maybe we’ll start thinking of doing something about it.

^{Jim Fowler}

60. Nuclear power will help provide the electricity that our growing economy needs without increasing emissions. This is truly an environmentally responsible source of energy. – Environmental quotes

^{Michael C. Burgess}

61. When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.

^{John Muir}

62. People blame their environment. There is only one person to blame – and only one – themselves.

^{Robert Collier}

63. Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal.

^{E. O. Wilson}

64. The real cure for our environmental problems is to understand that our job is to salvage Mother Nature. We are facing a formidable enemy in this field. It is the hunters… and to convince them to leave their guns on the wall is going to be very difficult.

^{Jacques Yves Cousteau}

65. If we bestow but a very little attention to the economy of the animal creation, we shall find manifest examples of premeditation, perseverance, resolution, and consumate artifice, in order to effect their purpose. – Environmental quotes

^{William Bartram}

66. Biofuels such as ethanol require enormous amounts of cropland and end up displacing either food crops or natural wilderness, neither of which is good.

^{Elon Musk}

67. Natural gas is a better transportation fuel than gasoline, so if that’s the case, it’s cheaper, it’s cleaner and it’s a domestic resource.

^{T. Boone Pickens}

68. No one is an environmentalist by birth. It is only your path, your life, your travels that awaken you.

^{Yann Arthus-Bertrand}

69. No one should be able to enter a wilderness by mechanical means. – Environmental quotes

^{Garrett Hardin}

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

^{Al Gore}

71. I think so long as fossil fuels are cheap, people will use them and it will postpone a movement towards new technologies.

^{Paul Krugman}

72. I do believe very strongly that all of us and all of the other things in the context of our planet with Mother Nature, all of these things absolutely have a profound effect. – Environmental quotes

^{Kiefer Sutherland}

73. If we gave up eating beef we would have roughly 20 to 30 times more land for food than we have now.

^{James Lovelock}

74. I think the future for solar energy is bright. – Environmental quotes

^{Ken Salazar}

75. You may be able to fool the voters, but not the atmosphere. – Environmental quotes

^{Donella Meadows}

76. We won’t have a society if we destroy the environment. – Environmental quotes

^{Margaret Mead}

77. We are using resources as if we had two planets, not one. There can be no ‘plan B’ because there is no ‘planet B.’

^{Ban Ki-moon}

78. Yet, despite our many advances, our environment is still threatened by a range of problems, including global climate change, energy dependence on unsustainable fossil fuels, and loss of biodiversity.

^{Dan Lipinski}

79. 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.

^{Paul Tsongas}

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

^{Brian Mulroney}

81. When we realize we can make a buck cleaning up the environment, it will be done!

^{Dennis Weaver}

82. I’m anti-tax, but I’m pro-carbon tax.

^{Elon Musk}

83. Nature is regulating our climate for free. Mother Nature, she’s been doing that for free, for a long, long time. Now do you really want to get in there and do geo-engineering and all this kind of stuff?

^{Thomas Friedman}

84. If people destroy something replaceable made by mankind, they are called vandals; if they destroy something irreplaceable made by God, they are called developers.

^{Joseph Wood Krutch}

85. 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.

^{John Muir}

86. I see humanity now as one vast plant, needing for its highest fulfillment only love, the natural blessings of the great outdoors, and intelligent crossing and selection. – Environmental quotes

^{Luther Burbank}