Top Environmental Quotes

Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.

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?

I did not become a vegetarian for my health, I did it for the health of the chickens.

When people align around shared political, social, economic or environmental values, and take collective action, thinking and behavior that compromises the lives of millions of people around the world...

These days, most nature photographers are deeply committed to the environmental message.

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.

It is one of the issues that will have to be worked through however let me make the point and I think anyone would accept that if you set it up properly, not only will you get better environmental out...

I worked as a draftsman for the Department of Environmental Protection, and as a teacher, in N.Y.C.; at a big bank and a small ad agency, a tiny law firm and a few giant ones; as a cashier and a dishw...

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

We're running the most dangerous experiment in history right now, which is to see how much carbon dioxide the atmosphere... can handle before there is an environmental catastrophe.

God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fools.

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.

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.

We had some major successes and we did so because the country embraced the spirit of Earth Day and embraced this concept that we have to have forward-looking, visionary environmental policy and energy...

I think an old style of addressing environmental problems is ebbing, but the rise of the so-called conservative, political movement in this country is not a trend towards the future but a reaction to...

There's no longer any surprise in noting that China has grave environmental problems.

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

People need to be cautious because anything built by man can be destroyed by Mother Nature.

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

We've sued out-of-state power plants that are polluting our air and led a coalition of attorneys general from Connecticut, Delaware, Maryland, and Massachusetts against efforts in the U.S. House of Re...