Quotes About Environment

In Kenya women are the first victims of environmental degradation, because they are the ones who walk for hours looking for water, who fetch firewood, who provide food for their families.

You know what happens when windmills collapse into the sea? A splash.

Waste not the smallest thing created, for grains of sand make mountains, and atomies infinity.

In America today you can murder land for private profit. You can leave the corpse for all to see, and nobody calls the cops.

There is a gyre of discarded floating plastic the size of the continental USA in the ocean. In it, plastic trash outweighs plankton 40 to 1.

Eventually we'll realize that if we destroy the ecosystem, we destroy ourselves.

What is the environmental platform of the Republican party? I don't know either.

Out of all those millions and millions of planets floating around there in space, this is our planet, this is our little one, so we just got to be aware of it and take care of it.

Our biggest national security threat is the environmental destruction of our planet and the arms race with ourselves.

Global warming has already triggered a sea level rise that could reach from 6 metres (19.69 ft) to 25 metres (27.34 yards).

Climate change is for real. We have just a small window of opportunity and it is closing rather rapidly. There is not a moment to lose.

The idea of wilderness needs no defense, it only needs defenders.

Environmental degradation, overpopulation, refugees, narcotics, terrorism, world crime movements, and organized crime are worldwide problems that don't stop at a nation's borders.

If we do not permit the earth to produce beauty and joy, it will in the end not produce food, either.

Our stewardship of the Earth is brief. We owe it to those who follow to keep that in perspective, to be responsible passengers along the way.

Yet, despite our many advances, our environment is still threatened by a range of problems, including global climate change, energy dependence on unsustainable fossil fuels, and loss of biodiversity.

Environmental justice is the movement to ensure that no community suffers disproportionate environmental burdens or goes without enjoying fair environmental benefits.

If it can't be reduced, reused, repaired, rebuilt, refurbished, refinished, resold, recycled or composted, then it should be restricted, redesigned or removed from production.

The most powerful natural species are those that adapt to environmental change without losing their fundamental identity which gives them their competitive advantage.

Be gentle with the earth.

You cannot achieve environmental security and human development without addressing the basic issues of health and nutrition.

Environmental justice [means that] no community should be saddled with more environmental burdens and less environmental benefits than any other.

If we go on using the Earth uncaringly and without replenishing it, then we are just greedy consumers.

Each of us now has 2.27 kg (5 lbs) of plastic embedded in our bodies.