Environment Quotes

87. Not all is doom and gloom. We are beginning to understand the natural world and are gaining a reverence for life – all life.

^{Roger Tory Peterson}

88. In Kenya women are the first victims of environmental degradation, because they are the ones who walk for hours looking for water, who fetch firewood, who provide food for their families.

^{Wangari Maathai}

89. 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 translate that into what’s in it for us. – Environmental quotes

^{Jim Fowler}

90. I’m very concerned for the future of the earth and its amazing creatures. We’ve got to be careful and make sure we don’t foul our own nest.

^{John Lithgow}

91. Mankind has probably done more damage to the Earth in the 20th century than in all of previous human history.

^{Jacques Yves Cousteau}

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

^{Aldo Leopold}

93. We are now heading down a centuries-long path toward increasing the productivity of our natural capital – the resource systems upon which we depend to live – instead of our human capital.

^{Paul Hawken}

94. It appears to be a law that you cannot have a deep sympathy with both man and nature.

^{Henry David Thoreau}

95. China will soon emit more greenhouse gases than America, but its regime knows if it caps aspirations there will be a revolution.

^{James Lovelock}

96. As you heat the planet up, it’s just like boiling a pot. – Environmental quotes

^{Elon Musk}

97. 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. – Environmental quotes

^{Cathy McMorris Rodgers}

98. The Endangered Species Act is the strongest and most effective tool we have to repair the environmental harm that is causing a species to decline.

^{Norm Dicks}

99. – Environmental quotes

^{Bob Beauprez}

100. Take air quality in the United States today: It’s about 30 percent better than it was 25 years ago, even though there are now more people driving more cars.

Environment Quotes 101 – 200

^{Jared Diamond}

101. – Environmental quotes

^{Charles Saatchi}

102. Much of the debate over global warming is predicated on fear, rather than science.

^{Jim Inhofe}

103. Why has it seemed that the only way to protect the environment is with heavy-handed government regulation?

^{Gale Norton}

104. A knowledgeable and courageous U.S. president could help enormously in leading the world’s nations toward saving the climate.

^{Donella Meadows}

105. In today’s world, it is no longer unimaginable to think that business can operate – and even thrive – in an environmentally-friendly manner.

^{Olympia Snowe}

106. It seems that every time mankind is given a lot of energy, we go out and wreck something with it.

^{David R. Brower}

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

^{Dixie Lee Ray}

108. I find it interesting that many of the people who want to restrict fossil fuels live in well-developed countries where abundant and affordable energy is readily available.

^{Lee R. Raymond}

109. Environmental policy must strike a balance between the earth’s best interests and our citizen’s pressing needs.

^{Jim Clyburn}

110. Environmental concern is now firmly embedded in public life: in education, medicine and law; in journalism, literature and art. – Environmental quotes

^{Barry Commoner}

111. Population, when unchecked, goes on doubling itself every 25 years or increases in a geometrical ratio.

^{Thomas Malthus}

112. Green-tech could be the largest economic opportunity of the 21st Century. – Environmental quotes

^{John Doerr}

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

^{Alexandra Paul}

114. 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, and the new is always alarming.

^{Garrett Hardin}

115. I think Captain Cousteau might be the father of the environmental movement.

^{Ted Turner}

116. We must move away from our dependency on fossil fuels, and I am glad that GM has invested over $1 billion in hydrogen fuel cells cars to meet this goal.

^{Albert Wynn}

117. There is no place where we can safely store worn-out reactors or their garbage. No place!

^{David R. Brower}

118. – Environmental quotes

^{Michael E. Mann}

119. 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 be preserved.

^{Bill Bradley}

120. In the environmental movement, every time you lose a battle it’s for good, but our victories always seem to be temporary and we keep fighting them over and over again.

^{David Suzuki}

121. – Environmental quotes

^{David Suzuki}

122. If we don’t continue to pursue alternative, emissions-free energy sources like nuclear fuel, we are at risk of increasing our dependence on costly natural gas.

^{Judy Biggert}

– Environmental quotes

124. In fact, because of their connection to the land, farmers do more to protect and preserve our environment than almost anyone else. They are some of the best environmentalists around.

^{Ike Skelton}

125. In places where this beauty has already disappeared, we will reconstruct it.

^{Fritz Todt}

126. The high prices also highlight the fact that the U.S. is too heavily dependent on fossil fuels that we import from unstable parts of the world. To protect our national security, we must become more energy secure.

^{Dan Lipinski}

127. In addition to contributing to erosion, pollution, food poisoning, and the dead zone, corn requires huge amounts of fossil fuel – it takes a half gallon of fossil fuel to produce a bushel of corn.

^{Michael Pollan}

128. The environment has fallen to the wayside in politics.

^{Craig Venter}

– Environmental quotes

130. Mankind is considered (by the radical environmentalists) the lowest and the meanest of all species and is blamed for everything.

^{Dixie Lee Ray}

131. Under the Environmental Protection Agency’s Energy Star Program, homes are independently verified to be measurably more energy efficient than average houses.

^{Melissa Bean}

132. You don’t have to live in the country and grow your own food to be green.

^{Shalom Harlow}

133. There are plenty of problems in the world, and doubtless climate change – or whatever the currently voguish phrase for it all is – certainly is one of them. But it’s low on my list.

^{P. J. O’Rourke}

134. Within 10 years it will be impossible to travel to the North Pole by dog team. There will be too much open water.

^{Will Steger}

135. We can have technology, prosperity, nice homes and cars, but at the same time we must be conscious of what we are dumping into the water, the air and our food.

^{Kevin Richardson}

136. The cheapest natural gas in the world is in the United States.

^{T. Boone Pickens}

137. I had never been able to get a car that said how much I cared about the environment until I drove electric.

^{Alexandra Paul}

141. Economic growth and environmental protection are not at odds. They’re opposite sides of the same coin if you’re looking at longer-term prosperity.

^{Henry Paulson}