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Quotes About Environment

Climate change has the potential to affect everything we care about - whether it is the health of our families, the stability of our communities, or the fate of the wild animals.
~ Frances Beinecke
The securest guarantee of the long-term good health of both farmland and city is, I believe, locally produced food.
~ Wendell Berry
People are becoming more environmentally aware and caring more for animals and really wanting to improve their health.
~ Heather Mills
How important is a constant intercourse with nature and the contemplation of natural phenomena to the preservation of moral and intellectual health!
~ Henry David Thoreau
A lot of people do not think of forests as a health issue, but we have found out that is where our clean water comes from, from the forests.
~ Jay Inslee
The natural resources we've depended on, if the places where they exist are not stable, our own livelihood and our health is put at risk.
~ Jeff Corwin
Trees emit a wide variety of electromagentic radiation and it is regarded as healthy to live in a natural area that is surrounded by trees due to these beneficial emissions to human health.
~ Steven Magee
Moreover, environmental health at the local level has become narrowly focused, very much defined around regulations and the attendant regulatory debates.
~ Samuel Wilson
The world has been experiencing a whole pattern of auto-destruction, whether in environmental disasters like Chernobyl or health disasters like AIDS.
~ Niki de St. Phalle
Local innovation and initiative can help us better understand how to protect our environment.
~ Gale Norton
I always try to say, 'If you want to help the environment, try to do just two things. One, use less of your car. Second, separate your garbage.'
~ Jaime Lerner
We are what we are, because of the vibrations of thought which we pick up and register, through the stimuli of our daily environment.
~ Napoleon Hill
An organization's reason for being, like that of any organism, is to help the parts that are in relationship to each other, to be able to deal with change in the environment.
~ Kevin Kelly
A change of scenery can help everything.
~ Drew Pomeranz
Conservation is key to preserving many of the world's natural beauty spots, so do your best to help by keeping to designated footpaths and being a discerning souvenir collector.
~ Sheherazade Goldsmith
I hope that energy-efficient LED light bulbs will help reduce energy use and lower the cost of lighting worldwide.
~ Shuji Nakamura
The old myth is true. We see our environment as a mirror to our self-image. If we think we are weak, everybody will appear like a threat. If we think we are strong, we will try to help everyone.
~ Gracia Hunter
Wouldn't it help Americans more, in the long run, if we were forced to accept some responsibility for the environmental wreckage we prefer to assume is totally out of our control?
~ Jane Velez-Mitchell
When future generations judge those who came before them on environmental issues, they may conclude "they didn't know": let us not go down in history as the generations who knew, but didn't care
~ Mikhail Gorbachev
I like to call it 'the national automobile slum.' You can call it suburban sprawl. I think it's appropriate to call it the greatest misallocation of resources in the history of the world.
~ James Howard Kunstler
For the first time in history, my community has had to use air conditioners. Imagine that, air conditioners in the Arctic.
~ Sheila Watt-Cloutier
We must come to understand our past, our history, in terms of the soil and water and forests and grasses that have made it what it is.
~ William Vogt
We humans have come to a crossroads in our history: we can either destroy the world or create a good future.
~ Sakyong Mipham
The throwaway economy that has been evolving over the last half-century is an aberration, now itself headed for the junk heap of history.
~ Lester R. Brown