Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michele Bachmann

Carbon dioxide is natural, it is not harmful, it is a part of Earth's lifecycle. And yet we're being told that we have to reduce this natural substance, reduce the American standard of living, to create an arbitrary reduction in something that is naturally occurring in Earth.

We want to annoy the whenever we can. The best thing we can do with environmentalists is shoot them.

Michael E. Mann

Public discourse has been polluted now for decades by corporate-funded disinformation - not just with climate change but with a host of health, environmental and societal threats. The implications for the planet are grim.

Ramez Naam

That, to me, is a kind of brilliant environmental ju-jitsu - using the energy of the market and the profit-motive to get businesses to invest in preserving and improving natural systems.

You don't have the problems of impacts on private property. You don't have the environmental impacts these reservoirs are already in place.

Jacque Fresco

If our system continues without modification involving environmental and social concern, we will face an economic and social break down.

Jacque Fresco

Science and education, when devoid of a social conscience or environmental and human concern, are meaningless.

Henry David Thoreau

We do not ride on the railroad; it rides upon us.

James Fallows

There's no longer any surprise in noting that China has grave environmental problems.

Kyrsten Sinema

Im an environmentalist; I recycle.

Sheherazade Goldsmith

The planets environmental woes tend to be overlooked as we scramble for the latest high-tech gizmos - and conveniently ignore their energy consumption.

Maurice Strong

A shift is necessary toward lifestyles less geared to environmental damaging consumption patterns.

Matthew Simmons

We need to find three Saudi Arabias just to offset [the] decline.

Norm Dicks

The Endangered Species Act is the strongest and most effective tool we have to repair the environmental harm that is causing a species to decline.

Nina Fedoroff

If there are more and more environmental refugees, they are going to end up on your doorstep too.

John Densmore

I've been a longtime supporter of all sorts of environmental groups.

Garrett Hardin

Why are ecologists and environmentalists so feared and hated? This is because in part what they have to say is new to the general public, and the new is always alarming.

Joseph Hall

How endless is that volume which God hath written of the world! Every creature is a letter, every day a new page.

Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva

No sustainable development, environmental harmony or lasting security will happen if we are unable to eradicate hunger and extreme inequality

Maria Montessori

Only through freedom and environmental experience is it practically possible for human development to occur.

Russell Baker

The twentieth century seems afflicted by a gigantic... power failure. Powerlessness and the sense of powerlessness may be the environmental disease of the age.

Paul Watson

Musicians have made incredible contributions to the conservation and environmental movement and continue to do so, more than ever.

Mary Daly

We will look upon the earth and her sister planets as being with us, not for us.

Pete Seeger

If it can’t be reduced, reused, repaired, rebuilt, refurbished, refinished, resold, recycled or composted, then it should be restricted, redesigned or removed from production.

Pope Benedict XVI

Today the great gift of God's Creation is exposed to serious dangers and lifestyles which can degrade it. Environmental pollution is making particularly unsustainable the lives of the poor of the world ... we must pledge ourselves to take care of creation and to share its resources in solidarity.

Pope Benedict XVI

Nourishment is a factor which touches on the fundamental right to life.

Mike Farrell

What we are seeing here is environmental injustice

Walt Whitman

Where the earth is, we are.

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

While the Environmental Genome Project does not seek to assign allele frequencies, we are aware of the importance of accurate allele frequency estimates for future epidemiologic studies and the large sample sizes such estimates will require.

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.

Richard M. Nixon

It is essential that we take steps to prevent chemical substances from becoming environmental hazards. Unless we develop better methods to assure adequate testing of chemicals, we will be inviting the environmental crisis of the future.

Warren Christopher

Environmental degradation, overpopulation, refugees, narcotics, terrorism, world crime movements, and organized crime are worldwide problems that don't stop at a nation's borders.