Quotes About Change

We are aware only of the empty space in the forest, which only yesterday was filled with trees.

Climate change is not an environmental issue, but much more to do with security and economics

The modern assault on the environment began about 50 years ago, during and immediately after World War II.

When civilization stands at the edge of a cliff, a step forward doesn't make much sense.

When a system is in turbulence, the turbulence is not just out there in the environment, but is a part of the organization or organism that you are looking at.

We don't know what those other cycles were caused by in the past. Could be dinosaur flatulence, you know, or who knows?

Given continued high rates of population increase, all environmental victories are temporary.

The most unhappy thing about conservation is that it is never permanent. Save a priceless woodland or an irreplaceable mountain today, and tomorrow it is threatened from another quarter.

So Nature deals with us, and takes away Our playthings one by one, and by the hand Leads us to rest.

Environmental issues are on everyone's mind. It's part of our culture now and I can only applaud and laud anyone who is doing what they can and raising awareness.

We have 20 years [until 2026] to reduce carbon emissions or climate change will become irreversible.

Every American expects and deserves clean air, and then we act on that belief, then we will set an example for the rest of the world to follow.

Our overriding environmental challenge tonight is the worldwide problem of climate change, global warming, the gathering crisis that requires worldwide action.

A different world can be created or re-created-but not until we stop enshrining the economic values of invisible labor, infinite and obsessive growth, and a slow environmental suicide.

Global warming threatens the survival of our species.

While progress should never come to a halt, there are many places it should never come to at all.

What is urgently needed is a bold new move from a consumer economy to a conserver economy in all of the developed countries, and particularly in the United States.

The world doesn't need more people to save the world, what it really needs is more people to kick asses of those who pollute.

The real radical is that person who has a vision of equality and is willing to do those things that will bring reality closer to that vision. . .

Equality means more than passing laws. The struggle is really won in the hearts and minds of the community, where it really counts.

Reality has changed, and we changed with it. However, I never changed sides. I have always been on the side of justice, democracy and social equality.

Only the extremely ignorant or the extremely intelligent can resist change.

Achieving gender equality is about disrupting the status quo - not negotiating it.

A capacity to change is indispensable. Equally indispensable is the capacity to hold fast to that which is good.