Environmental Quotes

Energy conservation is the foundation of energy independence.

Every creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and pine trees, and he who understands it aright will rather preserve its life than destroy it.

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.

Every drop in the ocean counts.

You cannot achieve environmental security and human development without addressing the basic issues of health and nutrition.

All is connected... no one thing can change by itself.

We live in a world bathed in 5,000 times more energy than we consume as a species in the year, in the form of solar energy. It's just not in usable form yet.

Mankind has probably done more damage to the Earth in the 20th century than in all of previous human history.

Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal.

The quicker we humans learn that saving open space and wildlife is critical to our welfare and quality of life, maybe we'll start thinking of doing something about it.

I think the future for solar energy is bright.

The sooner we get started with alternative energy sources and recognize that fossil fuels makes us less secure as a nation, and more dangerous as a planet, the better off we'll be.

Without the oceans there would be no life on Earth.

The reality is gas prices should be much more expensive then they are because we're not incorporating the true damage to the environment and the hidden costs of mining oil and transporting it to the U.S. Whenever you have an unpriced externality, you have a bit of a market failure, to the degree that eternality remains unpriced.

Unless we keep this planet healthy, everything else is for naught.

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.

I do believe very strongly that all of us and all of the other things in the context of our planet with Mother Nature, all of these things absolutely have a profound effect.

We won't have a society if we destroy the environment.

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.

We are using resources as if we had two planets, not one. There can be no 'plan B' because there is no 'planet B.'