Environmental Quotes

It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment.

Raising awareness on the most pressing environmental issues of our time is more important than ever.

There is a muscular energy in sunlight corresponding to the spiritual energy of wind.

We learned that economic growth and environmental protection can and should go hand in hand.

Plans to protect air and water, wilderness and wildlife are in fact plans to protect man.

If you can't be in awe of Mother Nature, there's something wrong with you.

By polluting clear water with slime you will never find good drinking water.

Try to leave the Earth a better place than when you arrived.

They claim this mother of ours, the Earth, for their own use, and fence their neighbors away from her, and deface her with their buildings and their refuse.

A true conservationist is a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers, but borrowed from his children.

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.

Birds are indicators of the environment. If they are in trouble, we know we'll soon be in trouble.

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?

Sadly, it's much easier to create a desert than a forest.

People blame their environment. There is only one person to blame - and only one - themselves.

Much of the debate over global warming is predicated on fear, rather than science.

Harmony with land is like harmony with a friend; you cannot cherish his right hand and chop off his left.

I think the cost of energy will come down when we make this transition to renewable energy.

Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.

You may be able to fool the voters, but not the atmosphere.