Environmental Quotes

"Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth."

"The environment is everything that isn't me."

"It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment."

"What have we achieved in mowing down mountain ranges, harnessing the energy of mighty rivers, or moving whole populations about like chess pieces, if we ourselves remain the same restless, miserable, frustrated creatures we were before? To call such activity progress is utter delusion. We may succeed in altering the face of the earth until it is unrecognizable even to the Creator, but if we are unaffected wherein lies the meaning?"

"We must return to nature and nature's god."

"Property owners should not be punished for being good environmental stewards, yet that is exactly what the ESA does."

"When you mention Nancy Wittenberg in one sentence and environmental regulation in another, my eyebrows immediately raise up."

"Our feeling is that it was an incorrect interpretation and it weakens the state's environmental statutes. We have quite a few of these things. The experience indicates that customers make fewer trips of a shorter distance over time. That's a significant reduction in road miles. They're going to one place instead of 14 places to get what they need. We think that's relevant."

"It's the single greatest environmental threat that little is being done about."

"Instead of just spending it on a general fund, let's redirect these monies back to environmental funds."

"Any parcel on water that is being sold is a potential for environmental problems."

"The evidence is stacking up that indicates it is not environmental,"

"It's too ridiculous from an environmental point of view, but also from a technical point of view too."

"The main problems are, firstly, the inappropriate location of the plants; secondly, their failure to follow environmental guidelines; and thirdly, that more than 100 of these plants pose an environmental risk."

"It's not sanitary environmental policy."

"We are an environmental organization. We do anything we can to lessen our impact."

"The Environmental Protection Fund is a national model and it's something New Yorkers should be proud of."

"There is no environmental threat."

"The evidence is stacking up that indicates it is not environmental."

"I am I plus my surroundings and if I do not preserve the latter, I do not preserve myself."