Quotes About Environment

Bryan and I plan to use reusable diapers. There are a lot more options than before. We know it won't be as convenient, but we want to do it to help the planet.

If we lose bees, we may be looking at losing apples and oranges. We may be looking at losing a great deal of other crops, as well, and other animals that depend on those crops.

We're going to stop looking at Earth from orbit because we don't like what we are seeing and the conclusions that leads us to? That's nonsense.

The average ordinary citizen can do a lot of different things when it comes to the climate crisis.

I think people think of Oregon as such a granola, hippie kind of a place.

I'm really into natural and organic products.

My niche will be to support the environment through the growth of organic agriculture.

Just because you want to wear organic cotton doesn't mean you have to spend an arm and a leg.

I myself did not officially become organic until 1997, although I was always hopeless at using chemicals.

Look what consumer power has done with organic food; we can do the same with clothes.

Greenpeace is the world's largest feel-good organisation now, and I can say that 'cause I am one of their co-founders.

Algae are such basic, simple organisms.

I grew up in a business-inspired environment, and over the years have started and run several businesses and philanthropic organizations. Understanding how large corporations work, by having hands-on and board experience, I apply that knowledge to the benefit of all that I do.

When I first joined the Irvine Company, I realized that less than 11,000 acres were designated as open space in the original master plan, and that just didn't seem adequate to me. So, I began the lengthy process working with public and community organizations to add more open space.

In 1970, as a 26 year-old, I joined in the effort in my home state of Massachusetts to organize for Earth Day. But what made the event so successful was that I was only one of about 20 million Americans of all ages and backgrounds who got involved.

You don't like to be lied to, by your friends or in your business dealings. So why would you want to be lied to when it comes to the origin of life or the fate of the planet?

The earth is a great big orphanage for most animals.

Your connections with other people are important, our connection to the earth.

The most difficult thing for us to do is to mitigate and offset our agricultural emissions. If we find a way to do that, then we're showing other countries how to do it, too.

The manufacture and running of all the world's computers, the toxicity of the hardware mountains that we currently dump on other countries; all this can be totted up on the environmental account of web-users and its authors.

I began working with the John Muir Institute and then started helping found Friends of the Earth organizations here and there in other countries. That pretty well brings us up to the present.

Are we better off if we displace jobs and investments to other countries and global emissions go up? I say no. Let's bring that production here and have less emissions globally because we can make things more efficiently and cleaner.

I think we ought to take Al Gore, put him on an iceberg, and put him way out there.

We aren't addicted to oil, but our cars are.