Quotes About Environment

If we don't overthrow capitalism, we don't have a chance of saving the world ecologically.

One means of sanity is to retain a hold on the natural world, ... Americans still have that chance, more than many peoples.

. . . perhaps our grandsons, having never seen a wild river, will never miss the chance to set a canoe in singing waters . . . glad I shall never be young without wild country to be young in.

Have a chance to create a society to match its scenery.

Wind is a plant's only chance to make music.

Most of the reefs [around Christmas Island] are dead, most of the corals are dead, overgrown by algae, and most of the fish are smaller than the pencils we use to count them.

Architecture is a social activity that has to do with some sort of communication or places of interaction, and that to change the environment is to change behaviour.

I like sets that feel small. Sets that feel really big are difficult. When you're on a big set it feels like there's constant mis-communication.

Fertilizer played a greater role in this case than computers.

We need to invest dramatically in green energy, making solar panels so cheap that everybody wants them. Nobody wanted to buy a computer in 1950, but once they got cheap, everyone bought them.

It gave a tremendous level of self-confidence, that through exploration and learning one could understand seemingly very complex things in one's environment.

Your level of self-confidence is not something you are born with, though it is influenced by the circumstances into which you were born and grew up.

When a flower doesn't bloom, you fix the environment in which it grows, not the flower.

Fight global warming! Be cool.

For the sake of our security, our economy and our planet, we must have the courage and commitment to change.

See, I've always seen Jacques Cousteau as a hero, mate. He's a legend - like my dad, just a legend. And so what he did for conservation in the '60s through the '70s was just phenomenal.

A lot of people wouldn't feel miserable in this environment. A lot of people aren't dating my girlfriend.

If you let the world roll on the way it's rolling, you're voting for death. I'm not voting for death.

No matter what we call it, poison is still poison, death is still death, and industrial civilization is still causing the greatest mass extinction in the history of the planet.

Global warming has taken the place of Communism as an absurdity that 'liberals' will defend to the death regardless of the evidence showing its folly.

It's a measure of the depth of our consumer trance that the death of the planet is not sufficient to break it.

How could intelligent beings seek to control a few unwanted species by a method that contaminated the entire environment and brought the threat of disease and death even to their own kind?

We will die a slow death over the next two years as this oil creeps ashore.

It was puzzling to own trees—they were not owned the way a business is owned or even a house is owned. If anything, they were held in trust. In trust. Yes, for all of posterity