Environmental Quotes

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.

Sooner or later, we will have to recognise that the Earth has rights, too, to live without pollution. What mankind must know is that human beings cannot live without Mother Earth, but the planet can live without humans.

We may achieve climate, but weather is thrust upon us.

The Earth does not belong to us: we belong to the Earth.

Water and air, the two essential fluids on which all life depends, have become global garbage cans.

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.

The environment is everything that isn't me.

The time is right for electric cars - in fact the time is critical.

When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.

We don't have to sacrifice a strong economy for a healthy environment.

We have enslaved the rest of the animal creation, and have treated our distant cousins in fur and feathers so badly that beyond doubt, if they were able to formulate a religion, they would depict the Devil in human form.

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

Climate change is happening, humans are causing it, and I think this is perhaps the most serious environmental issue facing us.

The most important thing about global warming is this. Whether humans are responsible for the bulk of climate change is going to be left to the scientists, but it's all of our responsibility to leave this planet in better shape for the future generations than we found it.

Climate change is a terrible problem, and it absolutely needs to be solved. It deserves to be a huge priority.

The future will either be green or not at all.

We could have saved the Earth but we were too damned cheap.

The only way forward, if we are going to improve the quality of the environment, is to get everybody involved.

If all mankind were to disappear, the world would regenerate back to the rich state of equilibrium that existed ten thousand years ago. If insects were to vanish, the environment would collapse into chaos.

Environmental pollution is an incurable disease. It can only be prevented.