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Quotes About Environment

Make the boy interested in natural history if you can; it is better than games; they encourage it in some schools.
~ Robert Falcon Scott
Global Warming: It is a hoax. It is bad science. It is high-jacking public policy. It is the greatest scam in history.
~ John Coleman
I like animals. I like natural history. The travel bit is not the important bit. The travel bit is what you have to do in order to go and look at animals.
~ David Attenborough
Each soil has had its own history. Like a river, a mountain, a forest, or any natural thing, its present condition is due to the influences of many things and events of the past.
~ Charles Kellogg
The planet will not survive another hundred years of the same state of consciousness that produced the external effects of recent history.
~ Eckhart Tolle
We are living in the most destructive and, hence, the most stupid period of the history of our species.
~ Wendell Berry
For too much of history, we've viewed the world's precious resources - both environmental and human - as things to extract, to make the most of in order to maximize their potential.
~ Jacqueline Novogratz
A day spent praising the earth and lamenting man's pollutionist history makes you feel like a superior, sensitive soul.
~ Russell Baker
If you can give your walls history, it supports the action that's happening in front of them.
~ James Pearse Connelly
History followed different courses for different peoples because of differences among peoples' environments, not because of biological differences among peoples themselves
~ Jared Diamond
President Obama is in no danger of being judged by history as an eco-radical.
~ Jeff Goodell
Standing Rock is a moment in history. We really have to grab it and go with it.
~ Neil Young
The BP spill was the greatest environmental catastrophe in U.S. history. Yet somehow, gas companies like BP and Halliburton ran interference on reporting that story.
~ Josh Fox
We share this planet, our home, with millions of species. Justice and sustainability both demand that we do not use more resources than we need.
~ Vandana Shiva
Education, like neurosis, begins at home.
~ Milton Sapirstein
Unlike the boundaries of the sea by the shorelines, the "ocean of air" laps at the border of every state, city, town and home throughout the world.
~ L. Welch Pogue
To dwell means to belong to a given place.
~ Christian Norberg-Schulz
Geography is the study of earth as the home of people
~ Yi-Fu Tuan
This planet is our home. If we destroy the planet, we've destroyed our home, so it is fundamentally important.
~ Ross Perot
We have a responsibility to look after our planet. It is our only home.
~ Dalai Lama
We shape our dwellings, and afterwards our dwellings shape us.
~ Winston Churchill
We need to discover a common middle ground in which all of these things, from the city to the wilderness, can somehow be encompassed in the word "home."
~ William Cronon
The human brain now holds the key to our future. We have to recall the image of the planet from outer space: a single entity in which air, water, and continents are interconnected. That is our home.
~ David Suzuki
Here we are, arguably the most intelligent being that's ever walked planet Earth, with this extraordinary brain ... and yet we're destroying the only home we have.
~ Jane Goodall