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Quotes About Environment

A man's every action is inevitably conditioned by what surrounds him and by his own body.
~ Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
Humanity is facing a very big, slow, long, drawn-out threat, and that is to do with the way the weather is changing and the size of the population.
~ David Attenborough
The health of our seas determines the future of humanity.
~ Tim Winton
It is your human environment that makes climate
~ Mark Twain
Because normal human activity is worse for nature than the greatest nuclear accident in history.
~ Martin Cruz Smith
The world is not going to survive very much longer as humanity's captive.
~ Daniel Quinn
Agrofuel is a crime against humanity and I believe there should be a moratorium put in place until there is some way to eradicate the many problems it creates.
~ Jean Ziegler
Noah had 120 years to warn humanity of the flood. We have only 4-5 years until global warming is irreversible
~ Yosef Abramowitz
Today we understand that the future of humanity very much depends on our planet, and that the future of the planet very much depends on humanity.
~ Dalai Lama
... humanity deserved to die horribly, since it had behaved so cruelly and wastefully on a planet so sweet.
~ Kurt Vonnegut
The population of the planet is increasing at an alarming rate, and yet each day human beings manage to destroy ten species.
~ Frederick Lenz
The defining challenge of the 21st century will be to face the reality that humanity shares a common fate on a crowded planet.
~ Jeffrey Sachs
We live in a world filled with automobiles, highways of the mind, urban disasters, billions of people living on a tiny planet, sharing the diminishing natural resources of the earth.
~ Frederick Lenz
Humanity is cutting down its forests, apparently oblivious to the fact that we may not be able to live without them.
~ Isaac Asimov
The Nuclear Industry is conducting a war against humanity.
~ Dr. John
Kids born today will see us navigate past the first greatest test of humanity, which is: can we actually be smart enough to live on a planet without destroying it?
~ Alex Steffen
Today humanity faces a stark choice: save the planet and ditch capitalism, or save capitalism and ditch the planet.
~ Fawzi Ibrahim
This place can't be heaven, it doesn't have the right vibe.
~ Rick Yancey, The 5th Wave
Even as a waste disposal site, the world is finite.
~ William R. Catton Jr
Sponges grow in the ocean. That just kills me. I wonder how much deeper the ocean would be if that didn't happen.
~ Steven Wright
Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them.
~ Bill Vaughn
I know the human being and fish can co-exist peacefully.
~ George W. Bush
Are you recycling? Are you!? You just killed a polar bear! YOU!
~ Russell Howard
After eating, do amphibians need to wait an hour before getting out of the water?
~ Steven Wright