Quotes About Environment

Q: What's the biggest problem working in a paperless office? A: Needing to shit.

Since I could not forget the wounds to people and planet, could not unlearn the dismal numbers--of pollution and population and poverty--that foretold catastrophe, I would have to look harder for antidotes, for medicines, for sources of hope.

A print book is really a kind of tree zombie.

Children speak in the field what they hear in the house.

Fifty years ago, when the human population was about 3 billion, we were using about 70 percent of the Earth's annual capacity each year. That broke 100 percent by 1980 and stands at about 150 percent now, meaning that we need one and one-half Earths to regenerate what we use in a year. As the authors of this now annual study note, we have a total of just one Earth available.

Survival in any meaningful sense is the key issue of our time

I learned a long time ago that place matters to me, on many levels, and maybe more than it should, but it is generally counter-productive for me to resist it.

The discussion about food doesn't make any sense without discussion at the same time of land, land use, land policy, fertility maintenance, and farm infrastructure maintenance.

There is practically no sense that is not violated every time we return from the country or the sea to Paris or London or New York.

Let's unite our impassioned voices to combat climate change. The time is now.

The climate is not tomorrow. The climate is a year off or maybe 10 years off. So we have to be really clear that we're solving the crisis of economic insecurity at the same time.

Listening. Nice idea but difficult to do with constant road and air traffic all around all the time. Please consider getting around by quieter means. Feet, bicycle, horse, it's up to you

Okay, I'll say I would go back in time and bring scientists with me and create a hairspray that would not cause global warming. But it would still give us '80s hair.

Just in the nick of time they realized that it was their own habitat they were wrecking -- that they weren't merely visitors.

Our planet's alarm is going off, and it is time to wake up and take action!

Numbers, time, inches, feet. All are just ploys for cutting nature down to size.

Isn't it time to talk not only about weather, but also about climate?

I think it's time we take a step back and recognize that while we are hurting our animals, we are hurting each other, and we are hurting our planet.

The environment does not determine man's culture; it merely sets the outer limits and at the same time offers opportunities.

When you're trapped in an abusive home environment you can feel completely hopeless and lost. Remember that situations can change with time, and that it won't be this way forever.

I think being raised spending so much time outdoors was really important - while you're in it, you might not know, but now I think of the things I was thankful for.

Time was when education moved toward soil, not away from it.

Our environment is too important to neglect and it's time for the federal government to focus on real solutions and live up to their promises.

In that kind of environment, where there's so much skepticism about information that's coming in, we're gonna have to spend a lot more time thinking about how do we protect our democratic process.