Quotes About Environment

Nature is telling us that if you don't respect the environment then you are living with artificial needs and a consumerism that is destroying the very conditions we need to survive.

It is impossible for any culture to be sound and healthy without a proper respect and proper regard for the soil.

Conservation is ethically sound. It is rooted in our love of the land, our respect for the rights of others, our devotion to the rule of law.

Organic agriculture is more about fairness and respect than it is about parts-per-billion of pesticide residues

Mechanized recreation already has seized nine-tenths of the woods and mountains; a decent respect for minorities should dedicate the other tenth to wilderness.

The solution to our energy needs must go through a show of respect for nature, not, once again, a policy that does violence to our hills.

I think it's really important with kids just to show them the beauty of nature and teach them a profound respect for nature.

In the United States, we do a pretty good job of protecting iconic landscapes and postcard views, but the ocean gets no respect.

We must stop treating the environment possessively, and as an expendable commodity.

We must protect and share the world.

Audubon considered it a bad day if he didn't shoot a hundred birds. "It's amazing that his name has become synonymous with conservation.

All the rhinos are dead, for the most part. I think that's really sad.

At Car and Driver, we were convinced that the automobile, as we knew and loved it, was as dead as the passenger pigeon. Ralph Nader was at full cry, ringing his tocsin of automobile doom into the brains of the public, convincing them that the lump of chrome and iron in the driveway was as lethal as a dose of Strontium 90 or a blast from a Viet Cong AK-47.

If the numbers mean anything, they tell us that vastly more life is left in the reviled internal-combustion engine than any of the blue-state lefties could imagine. First, that madman Bush wins, and now this news. How depressing.

The bicycle is a former child's toy that has now been elevated to icon status because, presumably, it can move the human form from pillar to post without damage to the environment. A laudable accomplishment, to be sure, and one that has been embraced by such progressives as the Chinese Communism hierarchy, who find the antlike movements of their population aboard bikes easy to control.

The harsh reality is that America moves on four wheels, powered by conventional internal-combustion engines. At this point, while the elite media (excluding Newsweek) trumpet the benefits of hybrids and Ford and Toyota plan to lead the nation into a low-powered, high-mileage hybrid Utopia, the multitudes remain loyal to the gas-guzzling family bus in the driveway.

Polka dots can't stay alone. When we obliterate nature and our bodies with polka dots we become part of the unity of our environments.

Referring to the bad sun conditions in left field at the stadium: It gets late out there early.

Humans tend to leave it until we're at the edge of the precipice before we take decisions. I'm an optimist by nature – you can't work in the environmental world if you're not. http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/62ebf896-ccc9-11e4-b5a5-00144feab7de.html

We need to become good citizens in the global village, instead of competing. What are we competing for - to drive more cars, eat more steaks? That will destroy the world.

our DNA still thinks we are in the savannah.

Many call this process 'the destruction of nature.' But it's not really destruction, it's change. Nature cannot be destroyed.

Homo sapiens look like an ecological serial killer.

Were the Australian extinction an isolated event, we could grant humans the benefit of the doubt. But the historical record makes Homo sapiens look like an ecological serial killer.