Quotes About Environment

There are better alternatives... Australia should be exporting its solar technology, not its uranium.

First they use technology to poison the planet, then they develop it further to escape from the planet they have poisoned.

I like to think about machines and technology in relation to landscape and architecture.

Most people are really stunned to find out that the technology has been around for more than 100 years, and that the diesel engine was in fact invented to run on vegetable oil.

We have a serious problem: America is addicted to oil... The best way to break this addiction is through technology.

The soil is actually the greatest technology we have for adapting to climate change. And I feel it's our generation's duty to build it back up.

The best and most evolved technologies are those that do not destroy the very base on which we live

We cannot continue to close our eyes to the fact that we have to truly embrace green jobs, new technologies and alternative sources of energy.

Many of the technologies we've invented are necessary to keep 6.5 billion people alive. We can't go back from that, so we need to decarbonize really rapidly.

Maybe we have enough technology to save the planet but it is not enough because the people are not ready.

When I look at China's environmental problems, the real barrier is not lack of technology or money. It's lack of motivation.

When I orbited the Earth in a spaceship, I saw for the first time how beautiful our planet is. Mankind, let us preserve and increase this beauty, and not destroy it!

The purpose of conservation: The greatest good to the greatest number of people for the longest time.

What infants need is the opportunity and time to take in and figure out the world around them.

You have to get over the color green; you have to quit associating beauty with gardens and lawns; you have to get used to an inhuman scale; you have to understand geological time.

Perhaps the time has come to cease calling it the 'environmentalist' view, as though it were a lobbying effort outside the mainstream of human activity, and to start calling it the real-world view.

No time to grieve for roses when the forests are burning.

A healthy human environment is one in which we try to make sense of our limits, of the accidents that can always befall us and the passage of time which inexorably changes us.

Probably the most visible example of unintended consequences, is what happens every time humans try to change the natural ecology of a place.

We are running out of time, we must have a planetary solution to a planetary crisis.

Indians and animals know better how to live than white man; nobody can be in good health if he does not have all the time fresh air, sunshine, and good water.

Often extinctions in the ocean occur at the same time as those on land. Then again, the ice age extinctions lost many big animals, but not many sea faring ones.

Every time we sit down to eat, we make a choice. Please choose vegetarianism. Do it for animals. Do it for the environment and do it for your health.

When man continues to destroy nature, he saws the very branch on which he sits since the rational protection of nature is at the same time the protection of mankind