Quotes About Environment

We have to understand the ubiquity of energy in everything we do. Energy is core to our economy and it brings with it environmental challenges, and it's core to our security challenges.

We've got to ride the global-warming issue. Even if the theory of global warming is wrong, we will be doing the right thing in terms of economic policy and environmental policy.

They paved paradise and put up a parking lot.

Climate change is a terrible problem, and it absolutely needs to be solved. It deserves to be a huge priority.

Environment is stronger than will.

Here's what I think the truth is: We are all addicts of fossil fuels in a state of denial, about to face cold turkey.

The societies of consumption and squandering of material resources are incompatible with the idea of economic growth and a clean planet.

Our world faces a true planetary emergency. I know the phrase sounds shrill, and I know it's a challenge to the moral imagination.

I think my path would have always gone back to or delivered me to wildlife. I think wildlife is just like a magnet, and it's something that I can't help.

I want to make it clear,if there is ever a conflict [between environmental quality and economic growth], I will go for beauty, clean air, water, and landscape.

We have been too kind to those who are killing the planet. We have been inexcusably, unforgivably, insanely kind.

... why are so many religious people arguing about the origin of the species but so few concerned about the extinction of the species?

Our kinship with Earth must be maintained; otherwise, we will find ourselves trapped in the center of our own paved-over souls with no way out.

We're not trying to reinvent the wheel; for any environmental organization to claim sole responsibility for any kind of victory is insane, because everybody attacks these problems as a group.

Does a poet create, originate, initiate the thing called a poem, or is his behavior merely the product of his genetic and environmental histories?

We can't impede progress in the name of environmental action that yields little for the environment and even less for our people.. and we should look at the environment as an economic opportunity.

People who minister worldwide to protect and conserve the environment are of no lower status than those who minister to plant churches.

The awareness of our environment came progressively in all countries with different outlets.

Any regeneration project that fails to put environmental and social benefits at its very heart is unlikely to achieve anything more than a very short-lived spasm of spurious prosperity

We have environmental laws for a reason: to protect endangered biodiversity. And as a country that has one of the highest loss of species anywhere in the world, they're important.

The choice to 'do nothing' in response to the mounting evidence is actually a choice to continue and even accelerate the reckless environmental destruction that is creating the catastrophe at hand.

The ecological crisis is a moral issue.

America has not led but fled on the issue of global warming.

The Earth's population will be culled from today's 6.6 billion to as few as 500 million, with most of the survivors living in the far latitudes - Canada, Iceland, Scandinavia, the Arctic Basin.