Quotes About Environment

The future will belong to the nature-smart.

No challenge poses a greater threat to future generations than climate change.

I want to do the most subversive thing I couldn't do as a child: I want to take back the planet's future.

I think there is a general unrest or curiosity about what a human future is going to be like, and whether the way we're living is even sustainable.

I am not willing to let the market-place determine the future of the animal kingdom.

Protecting our future on this planet depends on the conscious evolution of our species.

We are quite convinced that if he were alive today, as an astute businessman looking out to the future, he would be moving out of fossil fuels and investing in clean, renewable energy.

The coldest growing seasons of the future [will be] hotter than the hottest of the past. Is agriculture adapted to that? I don't know. Can fish play the piano?

At present we are stealing the future, selling it in the present, and calling it gross domestic product.

Whatever the short term clashes between protecting the environment and eradicating poverty, medium term and long term it is clear. Unless we grow sustainably, at some point we face catastrophe

FIGHT FOR THE EARTH: The earth can't speak for itself, it will just slowly die if we don't fight for it.

I fear for the future of the planet. But in a funny way, I'm even sanguine about that.

I see the future of Brazil as the future of the planet.

The day the world runs out of oil is much farther in the future than green activists care to admit. That is clear from data compiled by Dr. Robert Bradley, Jr. at the Institute for Energy Research.

The concept of 'peak oil' has penetrated the hearts and minds of people concerned about energy for the future. 'Peak fish' occurred around the end of the 1980s.

The key to understanding the future is one word: sustainability.

Plants seem like an excellent model for the kind of future that we should be building.

If we allow the destruction of the environment, we can see the terrorists have utterly won, and are destroying the future of our children and grandchildren. We must not let that happen.

Protecting the environment is really important to everyone's welfare - that of our children, as well as that of the future generations.

I think the idea of moving to a cleaner energy future and doing more energy efficiency makes smart sense.

The eco-movement is growing as people all over catch on to the need to protect our precious planet, which makes the future look really bright - and makes me really happy.

Natural gas is a very flexible source of energy that can help us bridge the gap between our current high-carbon economy and our zero-carbon future.

The economy of the future might be called the "spaceman economy," in which the earth has become a single spaceship, without unlimited reservoirs of anything.

Climate change is more remote than terror but a more profound threat to the future of the children and the grandchildren and the great-grandchildren I hope all of you have.