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Environmental QuotesFamous Environmental quotes by popular authors such as Donella Meadows, Paul Hawken, Roger Tory Peterson, Barry Commoner, Luther Burbank and others.
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[highlight-text]I'm a plant eater.
Roberto Burle Marx
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[highlight-text]We must return to nature and nature's god.
Luther Burbank
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[highlight-text]The environment is everything that isn't me.
Albert Einstein
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[highlight-text]All is connected... no one thing can change by itself.
Paul Hawken
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[highlight-text]We won't have a society if we destroy the environment.
Margaret Mead
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[highlight-text]Conservation is a state of harmony between men and land.
Aldo Leopold
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[highlight-text]Industry is fortune's right hand and frugality its left.
John Ray
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[highlight-text]You may be able to fool the voters but not the atmosphere.
Donella Meadows
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[highlight-text]No one should be able to enter a wilderness by mechanical means.
Garrett Hardin
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[highlight-text]I can find God in nature in animals in birds and the environment.
Pat Buckley
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[highlight-text]Unless we keep this planet healthy everything else is for naught.
Victoria Principal
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[highlight-text]People in Slow Food understand that food is an environmental issue.
Michael Pollan
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[highlight-text]We don't have to sacrifice a strong economy for a healthy environment.
Dennis Weaver
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[highlight-text]I think Captain Cousteau might be the father of the environmental movement.
Ted Turner
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[highlight-text]When we realize we can make a buck cleaning up the environment it will be done!
Dennis Weaver
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[highlight-text]It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment.
Ansel Adams
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[highlight-text]I did not become a vegetarian for my health I did it for the health of the chickens.
Isaac Bashevis Singer
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[highlight-text]There is no place where we can safely store worn-out reactors or their garbage. No place!
David R. Brower
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[highlight-text]I firmly believe that we can have a healthy environment and a sustainable timber industry.
Frank Murkowski
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[highlight-text]If you violate Nature's laws you are your own prosecuting attorney judge jury and hangman.
Luther Burbank
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[highlight-text]I think the cost of energy will come down when we make this transition to renewable energy.
Al Gore
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[highlight-text]Local innovation and initiative can help us better understand how to protect our environment.
Gale Norton
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[highlight-text]People blame their environment. There is only one person to blame - and only one - themselves.
Robert Collier
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[highlight-text]Birds are indicators of the environment. If they are in trouble we know we'll soon be in trouble.
Roger Tory Peterson
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[highlight-text]When we try to pick out anything by itself we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.
John Muir
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[highlight-text]If we do not permit the earth to produce beauty and joy it will in the end not produce food either.
Joseph Wood Krutch
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[highlight-text]In a finite world this means that the per capita share of the world's goods must steadily decrease.
Garrett Hardin
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[highlight-text]Population when unchecked goes on doubling itself every 25 years or increases in a geometrical ratio.
Thomas Malthus
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[highlight-text]Harmony with land is like harmony with a friend; you cannot cherish his right hand and chop off his left.
Aldo Leopold
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[highlight-text]The modern assault on the environment began about 50 years ago during and immediately after World War II.
Barry Commoner
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[highlight-text]Why has it seemed that the only way to protect the environment is with heavy-handed government regulation?
Gale Norton
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[highlight-text]I think the government has to reposition environment on top of their national and international priorities.
Brian Mulroney
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[highlight-text]The only way forward if we are going to improve the quality of the environment is to get everybody involved.
Richard Rogers
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[highlight-text]The government should set a goal for a clean environment but not mandate how that goal should be implemented.
Dixie Lee Ray
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[highlight-text]Scientists worldwide agree that the reduction needed to stabilize the climate is actually more like 80 percent.
Donella Meadows
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[highlight-text]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
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[highlight-text]Pushing production out of America to nations without our environmental standards increases global environmental risks.
Frank Murkowski
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[highlight-text]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
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[highlight-text]A knowledgeable and courageous U.S. president could help enormously in leading the world's nations toward saving the climate.
Donella Meadows
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[highlight-text]Environmental concern is now firmly embedded in public life: in education medicine and law; in journalism literature and art.
Barry Commoner
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[highlight-text]Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world; indeed it's the only thing that ever has.
Margaret Mead
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[highlight-text]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
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[highlight-text]Earth Day 1970 was irrefutable evidence that the American people understood the environmental threat and wanted action to resolve it.
Barry Commoner
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[highlight-text]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
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[highlight-text]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
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[highlight-text]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
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[highlight-text]When a man wantonly destroys one of the works of man we call him a vandal. When he destroys one of the works of god we call him a sportsman.
Joseph Wood Krutch
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[highlight-text]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.
Cathy McMorris
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[highlight-text]Keep close to Nature's heart... and break clear away once in awhile and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean.
John Muir
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[highlight-text]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
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[highlight-text]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
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[highlight-text]Under the Environmental Protection Agency's Energy Star Program homes are independently verified to be measurably more energy efficient than average houses.
Melissa Bean
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[highlight-text]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.
Jim Fowler
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[highlight-text]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
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[highlight-text]It is absolutely imperative that we protect preserve and pass on this genetic heritage for man and every other living thing in as good a condition as we received it.
David R. Brower
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[highlight-text]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.
Luther Burbank
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[highlight-text]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
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[highlight-text]Nuclear power will help provide the electricity that our growing economy needs without increasing emissions. This is truly an environmentally responsible source of energy.
Michael Burgess
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[highlight-text]Environmental degradation overpopulation refugees narcotics terrorism world crime movements and organized crime are worldwide problems that don't stop at a nation's borders.
Warren Christopher
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[highlight-text]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
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[highlight-text]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
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[highlight-text]I consider myself to have been the bridge between the shotgun and the binoculars in bird watching. Before I came along the primary way to observe birds was to shoot them and stuff them.
Roger Tory Peterson
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[highlight-text]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
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[highlight-text]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
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[highlight-text]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.
William Bartram
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[highlight-text]We assume that everything's becoming more efficient and in an immediate sense that's true; our lives are better in many ways. But that improvement has been gained through a massively inefficient use of natural resources.
Paul Hawken
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[highlight-text]After all sustainability means running the global environment - Earth Inc. - like a corporation: with depreciation amortization and maintenance accounts. In other words keeping the asset whole rather than undermining your natural capital.
Maurice Strong
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[highlight-text]Liberals in Congress have spent the past three decades pandering to environmental extremists. The policies they have put in place are in large part responsible for the energy crunch we are seeing today. We have not built a refinery in this country for 30 years.
Marsha Blackburn