Top Environmentalism Quotes

It's going to take all of us, gathering our voices and acting together. Saying,"Not on our watch" to create a future for humans, animals and the environment.

The dying bees, the Antarctic melt, the mountains of old tires, the incessant toxic belch of factories that make Batman bobbleheads for Happy Meals. Off-gassing couches! Cancerous tinned tomatoes! Imp...

I wish people had as much enthusiasm about unfucking the planet as they did about sports. Who wins on Sunday is pretty goddamned trivial compared to just about anything else.

Mankind does not have dominion over the Earth, mankind has a relationship with the Earth.

Today humanity faces a stark choice: save the planet and ditch capitalism, or save capitalism and ditch the planet.

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

I was born for this moment in Earth's history and if you believe you are a lightworker, so were you.

I had fought on behalf of man against the sea, but I realised that it had become more urgent to fight on behalf of the sea against men.

We risk losing what nature is if we couch its value in human terms.

Some call me nature, others call me Mother Nature. ... How you choose to live each day, whether you regard me or disregard me, doesn't really matter to me. One way or other, your actions will determin...

Contrary to the ecologists, nature does not stand still and does not maintain the kind of equilibrium that guarantees the survival of any particular species - least of all the survival of her greatest...

I have been impressed by the realization that a few men have virtually 'decided' what experiences count and even exist in the world. The language of Western science--the reigning construct of male heg...

When the air is angry, we have hurricanes.When the water is angry, we have typhoons.When the land is angry, we have earthquakes.When the sky is angry, we have thunderstorms.When the universe is angry,...

For what is the environmental crisis, if not a crisis of the way we live? The Big Problem is nothing more or less than the sum total of countless little everyday choices, most of them made by us... If...

I am pessimistic about the human race because it is too ingenious for its own good. Our approach to nature is to beat it into submission. We would stand a better chance of survival if we accommodated...

We are the vanguard of our times. What we do in our lifetimes will set the future of all beings. The loving, conscious choices you make for yourself will effect the future of life and of souls uncount...

Humanity stands ... before a great problem of finding new raw materials and new sources of energy that shall never become exhausted. In the meantime we must not waste what we have, but must leave as m...

Time and again our best and brightest have alerted society to looming problems, but our persistent pattern has been to ignore the warnings and suffer the consequences. The pathetic refrain of recent y...

Your power stations, your cars, your creature comforts. Well, you lived too long. The bill’s due. Today.

Everything we personally own that’s made, sold, shipped, stored, cleaned, and ultimately thrown away does some environmental harm every step of the way, harm that we’re either directly responsible for...