Quotes About Environment

The fork is your most powerful tool to change your health and the planet; food is the most powerful medicine to heal chronic illness.

I grew up in cattle country-that's why I became a vegetarian. Meat stinks, for the animals, the environment, and your health.

The infrastructure for linking environmental health and public health is not working as well as it should.

I believe in a sound, strong environmental policy that protects the health of our people and a wise stewardship of our nation's natural resources.

Social housing, education, health, jobs and sustainable surroundings. Those are my priorities.

For me, what I see happening in this [clean water] crisis is deterioration of the family. It is deterioration of our health.

Calling noise a nuisance is like calling smog an inconvenience. Noise must be considered a hazard to the health of people everywhere.

I believe it is important for people to create a healthy mental environment in which to accomplish daily tasks.

For the true measure of agriculture is not the sophistication of its equipment the size of its income or even the statistics of its productivity but the good health of the land.

We must have clean water and the health and the welfare of our children is at stake and is at risk.

Buildings designed with careful attention to aesthetics arouse and enlighten their occupants and that promotes their good health.

Health is the capacity of the land for self-renewal.

Your longevity and health are more determined by your ZIP code than they are by your genetic code.

Green exercise improves psychological health.

We would be foolish and silly not to unite with people in the public health sector, the environmental community, [and] unions, to try to challenge corporate agriculture.

The brain is an important gateway by which the social environment impacts on people's health through the mind.

We all recognize that in recent decades, many important achievements have helped create a cleaner, healthier environment, yet our national needs in environmental health are not being fully met.

My focus is not merely a beautiful city, but a city that's made beautiful on the parameters of good health and cleanliness

I think people who worry about planetary health on geological scales are totally misguided, that's not the point at all.

In this country, the health concerns and the environmental concerns are as deep as in Europe. All the surveys show that. But here, we didn't have the cultural dimension. This is a fast-food culture.

Greenhouse gas pollution, through its contribution to global climate change, presents a significant threat to Americans health and to the environment upon which our economy and security depends.

For me, it always has to be about health. That's why I'm a vegan. Well, I don't even do that for my health entirely, I do it for animals.

Reconnection to the natural world is fundamental to human health, well-being, spirit, and survival.

We tend to put the environment last because we think the first thing we have to do is eliminate poverty and send children to school and provide health.