Environmental Quotes

Environmental policy must strike a balance between the earth's best interests and our citizen's pressing needs.

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.

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.

When all the world appears to be in a tumult, and nature itself is feeling the assault of climate change, the seasons retain their essential rhythm. Yes, fall gives us a premonition of winter, but then, winter, will be forced to relent, once again, to the new beginnings of soft greens, longer light, and the sweet air of spring.

Mother Nature is not sweet.

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

Nuclear power will help provide the electricity that our growing economy needs without increasing emissions. This is truly an environmentally responsible source of energy.

I can find God in nature, in animals, in birds and the environment.

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

I think so long as fossil fuels are cheap, people will use them and it will postpone a movement towards new technologies.

Within 10 years it will be impossible to travel to the North Pole by dog team. There will be too much open water.

If we do not permit the earth to produce beauty and joy, it will in the end not produce food, either.

For me, going vegan was an ethical and environmental decision. I'm doing the right thing by the animals.

Nature is the mother and the habitat of man, even if sometimes a stepmother and an unfriendly home.

Population, when unchecked, goes on doubling itself every 25 years or increases in a geometrical ratio.

Saving our planet, lifting people out of poverty, advancing economic growth... these are one and the same fight. We must connect the dots between climate change, water scarcity, energy shortages, global health, food security and women's empowerment. Solutions to one problem must be solutions for all.

As you heat the planet up, it's just like boiling a pot.

We must return to nature and nature's god.

We have no reason to think that climate change is harmful if you look at the world as a whole. Most places, in fact, are better off being warmer than being colder. And historically, the really bad times for the environment and for people have been the cold periods rather than the warm periods.

We are aware only of the empty space in the forest, which only yesterday was filled with trees.