Quotes About Environment

In our attempt to make conservation easy, we have made it trivial.

It's just like any relationship, the more contained the environment, the more the good stuff appears and the more the bad stuff will reveal itself.

I felt strong around and always been around people who have very strong environmental convictions.

Whether carbon dioxide is quite the environmental villain that some people make it out to be is not yet proven.

If you drill, there's going to be a spill. It's axiomatic.

Most of what I know about environmental conservation I learned from my father, who has been a leader within the movement for over 30 years.

House Republican leaders voted more than 300 times to undermine environmental safeguards since 2011, but almost none of these measures became law because Americans pushed back.

We have enough coal to last for 250 years, yet coal also prevents an environmental challenge.

In parts of Montana, salt concentrations in soil water, have reached those double those of seawater.

Our nation has both an obligation and self-interest in facing head-on the serious environmental, economic and national security threat posed by global warming.

Yet, most of the readily accessible reserves of oil formed over hundreds of millions of years will be consumed within a single generation, spanning the years from 1960 to 1995.

Global warming threatens the survival of our species.

Civilization's shortening attention span is mismatched with the pace of environmental problems.

The doubling of oil prices ... is creating a more difficult environment in which to act.

If environmental protection efforts continue to lag behind economic growth, pollution will become even more rampant.

We forced Richard Nixon and the Congress who established, and thanks to your leadership, we supported you and we got the Environmental Protection Act and Agency.

Birds are extremely valued as indicators of overall environmental health. If there's a problem in a wild bird population, it's indicative that something went wrong.

During the 1960s, we used twice as much oil as during the 1950s. And in each of those decades, more oil was consumed than in all of mankind's previous history.

Nature does not pile up 1000 hogs, then hope for the best.

The "hole in the moral ozone" is really what's behind the hole in the ozone.

Simple determinism, whether of the genetic or environmental kind, is a depressing prospect for those with a fondness for free will.

One of the things that Ive always thought I would like to do is to develop an environmental index. Then people can measure their own environmental performance on an index as they do in other ways.

Meat is a tremendous environmental challenge. It contributes enormous amounts of greenhouse gas, especially beef eating.

What we are seeing here is environmental injustice