Quotes About Environment

The greatest conspiracy on the planet is that we need to oppress, kill, and pollute in order to get our needs met

Rail as we might against fracking and wars that protect our oil supply, we support those things with our gas furnaces, cars, and taxes. Grieve

find a balance between building a new world and helping to save the existing one.

Let me be clear: I felt bad about the state of the planet, and I was willing to pay extra if it supported an actual farmer instead of the bovine gulag.

hadn't the agrarian Wendell Berry written, "How could we divorce ourselves completely and yet responsibly from the technologies and powers that are destroying our planet? The answer is not yet thinkable.

the "environment" is not a place we vacation to gaze at warblers, but our home, the one and only garden that feeds us. In

I don't want my freedom, comfort, and mobility to require killing, polluting, and exploiting.

The solution to our water problems is more rain.

Our livelihood is intimately tied to the food we eat, water we drink and places where we recreate. That's why we have to promote responsibility and conservation when it comes to our natural resources.

Everybody knows what California smog is - that's fog with the vitamins removed.

We haven't had any more rain since it stopped raining.

We decide to start with the best-known sight of all, the one that, more than any other, exemplifies what the Big Apple is all about: the Islip Garbage Barge.

You're supposed to eat the cows. They're great big lumbering stupid things - they'd be everywhere if we didn't eat them.

Elephants are so wise and so funny and so endangered and so intelligent. I just think there is a lot to learn from them.

It is, ... kind of a softball atmosphere out there.

A funny line can never exist on its own. It needs to be surrounded by mood and circumstances.

It's funny, growing up there was never anybody around me with any kind of artistic bent.

Trains are not any more energy efficient than the average automobile, with both getting about 48 passenger miles to the gallon.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't driving around on a bus and having a campfire kind of adding to the environment problem?

If trees could scream, would we be so cavalier about cutting them down? We might, if they screamed all the time, for no good reason.

Lovely, not only did the truck look like it was on its last leg, it was going to take the environment with it.

Climate change is like my head: it's not visible in every instance, but I'm pretty darn sure it's there.

The child, making use of all that he finds around him, shapes himself for the future.

Since the cruel killing of cows and other animal have commenced, I have anxiety for the future generation.