Quotes About Environment

Film 'This Changes Everything' is not a sad story. It's not a slit-your-wrists climate film. It's a story about people who are making change happen.

The truth is: the natural world is changing. And we are totally dependent on that world. It provides our food, water and air. It is the most precious thing we have and we need to defend it.

Just like a single cell, the character of our lives is determined not by our genes but by our responses to the environmental signals that propel life.

History in its broadest aspect is a record of man's migrations from one environment to another.

Nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution.

If you're overfishing at the top of the food chain, and acidifying the ocean at the bottom, you're creating a squeeze that could conceivably collapse the whole system.

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

The first law of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts

It is folly to think that we can destroy one species and ecosystem after another and not affect humanity. When we save species, we're actually saving ourselves.

If you ask the fish whether they'd rather have an oil spill or a season of fishing, I wouldn't be surprised if they'd vote for another blowout.

Environmentally friendly cars will soon cease to be an option...they will become a necessity.

The Truly Healthy environment is not merely safe but stimulating.

The Nation that destroys its soil destroys itself.

One hundred trout are needed to support one man for a year. The trout, in turn, must consume 90,000 frogs, that must consume 27 million grasshoppers that live off of 1,000 tons of grass.

We've been given a warning by science, and a wake-up call by nature; it is up to us now to heed them.

Man has too long forgotten that the earth was given to him for usufruct alone, not for consumption, still less for profligate waste.

What nature does in the course of long periods we do every day when we suddenly change the environment in which some species of living plant is situated.

Climate change: Don't undermine the science just because you don't like the economics

The great question, whether man is of nature or above her.

They think they can make fuel from horse manure - now, I don't know if your car will be able to get 30 miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning.

Unfortunately the global warming hysteria, as I see it, is driven by politics more than by science.

The first possibility of rural cleanliness lies in water supply.

There is a clear message from science: To avoid dangerous interference with the climate system, we need to move away from business as usual.

It is the relationship between the physical environment and the environed organism, between physiography and ontography (to coin a term), that constitutes the essential principles of geography today.