Environment Quotes

142. The Chinese have figured out that they have a giant environmental problem. Folks in Beijing, some days, literally can’t breathe. Over a million Chinese die prematurely every year because of air pollution.

^{Joe Biden}

143. I have a private plane. But I fly commercial when I go to environmental conferences.

^{Arnold Schwarzenegger}

144. There are two problems for our species’ survival – nuclear war and environmental catastrophe – and we’re hurtling towards them. Knowingly.

^{Noam Chomsky}

145. Ted Turner is still a leader. And he sets a great example. His ability financially has been reduced, but his influence and his example still is an important asset to the whole environmental movement.

^{Maurice Strong}

146. Riding a bicycle is the summit of human endeavour – an almost neutral environmental effect coupled with the ability to travel substantial distances without disturbing anybody. The bike is the perfect marriage of technology and human energy.

^{Jeremy Corbyn}

150. The environmental problems of developing countries are not the side effects of excessive industrialisation but reflect the inadequacy of development.

^{Indira Gandhi}

151. Climate change is the environmental challenge of this generation, and it is imperative that we act before it’s too late.

^{John Delaney}

152. Nature’s patterns sometimes reflect two intertwined features: fundamental physical laws and environmental influences. It’s nature’s version of nature versus nurture.

^{Brian Greene}

153. If the federal government had been around when the Creator was putting His hand to this state, Indiana wouldn’t be here. It’d still be waiting for an environmental impact statement.

^{Ronald Reagan}

154. If you are lucky enough to never experience any sort of adversity, we won’t know how resilient you are. It’s only when you’re faced with obstacles, stress, and other environmental threats that resilience, or the lack of it, emerges: Do you succumb or do you surmount?

^{Maria Konnikova}

155. People are overwhelmed looking up at the Mount Everest of environmental challenges that we face. But you put one foot in front of the other and you recognize that not everyone is Sir Edmund Hillary.

^{Ed Begley, Jr.}

156. Design our world so that we have positive social and environmental side effects.

^{Bjarke Ingels}

157. Like every other viable environmental policy, the search for clean energy begins at home.

^{Roger Scruton}

158. Environmental protection and economic development are not in conflict. Environmental protection is not a burden but a source for innovation. It can increase competition, create jobs, and lifts the economy.

^{Chai Jing}

159. The environmental crisis is a global problem, and only global action will resolve it.

^{Barry Commoner}

160. We can no longer pretend that business is immune from the rising tide of environmental or social challenges or that companies can create value in isolation from the communities of which they are a part.

^{Paul Polman}

161. AI can help solve some of the most difficult social and environmental challenges in areas like healthcare, disaster prediction, environmental conservation, agriculture, or cultural preservation.

^{Jeff Dean}

162. Somewhere down the line I’d like to create a foundation that brings awareness to environmental protection, sustainability, the effects of pollution, and all of those things related to protecting nature.

^{Xander Schauffele}

163. We firmly believe the environmental issues cannot be addressed without extensive public participation, but people need to be informed before they can get involved.

^{Ma Jun}

164. I embrace a Green New Deal; I just think we have to have public-private partnerships if we’re going to get there. We have to align the environmental incentives with the financial incentives.

^{Tim Ryan}

165. Complexity is one of the great problems in environmental design.

^{Christopher Alexander}

190. What I try to do on my Instagram is provoke discussion and share environmental and sustainability messages.

^{Aidan Gallagher}

191. Music feels so environmental to me, especially the process of working with synths or mixing. I started thinking about music as a psychological landscape as well. It’s a landscape of the mind.

^{Caroline Polachek}

192. From year to year, environmental changes are incremental and often barely register in our lives, but from evolutionary or geological perspectives, what is happening is explosive change.

^{David Suzuki}

193. Environmental scientists in Canada said it was impossible for me to get to the Pole in 2004… I said ‘no,’ it’s still OK, and I can still get there, and I did.

^{Ben Saunders}

194. The ‘environmental left’ tells us that, though we have natural resources like natural gas and oil and coal, and though we can feed the world, we should keep those things in the ground, put up fences, and be about prohibition.

^{Scott Pruitt}

199. Many environmental advocates argue that agricultural pollution will be reduced only through stronger federal laws.

^{Charles Duhigg}

200. Our schools, like so many parts of our infrastructure, are crumbling across the country. Healing our schools can and should be central to our fight to achieve environmental, racial and economic justice.

^{Jamaal Bowman}

Environment Quotes 201 – 300

201. The wave of new productive enterprises would provide opportunities to remedy the unjust distribution of environmental hazards among economic classes and racial and ethnic communities.

^{Barry Commoner}

202. I am only a child. Yet I know that if all the money spent on war was spent on ending poverty and finding environmental answers, what a wonderful place this would be.

^{Severn Cullis-Suzuki}

203. Taking on corporate greed is an environmental concern.

^{Rashida Tlaib}

206. Human civilization as we know it is like the Titanic headed for the iceberg, whether the iceberg be nuclear, environmental or terrorism-related.

^{Marianne Williamson}

207. The discrimination of women and girls goes to the core of any and all analyses of the world’s economic, political, and environmental problems.

^{Winnie Byanyima}

208. Earth Day 1970 was irrefutable evidence that the American people understood the environmental threat and wanted action to resolve it.

^{Barry Commoner}

209. I realised the animal agriculture industry is actually awful and tragic and I can’t bear to be a part of that. The environmental impact of the agriculture industry, the health impact on us, there’s all the reasons.

^Montaigne

210. If every country’s climate policy was driven purely by environmental science, we may have no need for international agreements.

^{Ali Bongo Ondimba}

211. I’ve developed a huge regard for Toyota for its environmental awareness, for its immense commitment to research and development in this field, and for its leadership in developing hybrids which others are now following.

^{Maurice Strong}

212. 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.

^{Ted Danson}

213. Environmental activists in the rough Antarctic seas have launched a new tool in the fight to stop a Japanese operation to kill hundreds of whales: remote-controlled drones.

^{Jonathan Franklin}

214. As an issue, climate change was unlucky: when nonspecialists first became aware of it in the 1990s, environmental attitudes had already become tribal political markers.

^{Charles C. Mann}

215. There is a reason and a need to have an Environmental Protection Agency.

^{Scott Pruitt}

216. We should show Chernobyl to the world: scientists, environmental specialists, historians and tourists.

^{Volodymyr Zelensky}

217. 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.

^{Barbara Boxer}

218. All our environmental problems become easier to solve with fewer people and harder – and ultimately impossible to solve – with ever more people.

^{David Attenborough}

219. I want to be a lawyer, a dancer, an actress, a mother, a wife, a children’s author, a distance runner, a poet, a pianist, a pet store owner, an astronaut, an environmental and humanitarian activist, a psychiatrist, a ballet teacher, and the first woman president.

^{Rachel Corrie}

220. Many environmental battles are won by delaying a destructive project long enough to change the conversation – to allow new economic, political and social dynamics to emerge.

^{Frances Beinecke}

221. When my father finished his Ph.D., my mother went back for another bachelor’s degree, this time in environmental science.

^{Celeste Ng}

222. The most meaningful engine of change, powerful enough to confront corporate power, may be not so much environmental quality, as the economic development and growth associated with the effort to improve it.

^{Barry Commoner}

223. 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.

^{Ace Frehley}

224. Computer programmers, biotechnologists, environmental scientists, neuroscientists, nanotech engineers – all of these fields, and more, should have at least a course in ethics as part of their degree requirements.

^{Jamais Cascio}

225. Environmental injustice is a tangible, intolerable example of an exhibited moral laxity and minimal concern for healthy standards by corporations and political structures based on the race, ethnicity, and class of those being impacted.

^{Bernice King}

226. 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.

^{Barry Commoner}