Environmental Quotes

"I don't think we're going to save anything if we go around talking about saving plants and animals only; we've got to translate that into what's in it for us."

"I firmly believe that we can have a healthy environment and a sustainable timber industry."

"I see humanity now as one vast plant, needing for its highest fulfillment only love, the natural blessings of the great outdoors, and intelligent crossing and selection."

"I think Captain Cousteau might be the father of the environmental movement."

"I think the cost of energy will come down when we make this transition to renewable energy."

"I think the environment should be put in the category of our national security. Defense of our resources is just as important as defense abroad. Otherwise what is there to defend?"

"I think the government has to reposition environment on top of their national and international priorities."

"If people destroy something replaceable made by mankind, they are called vandals; if they destroy something irreplaceable made by God, they are called developers."

"If we bestow but a very little attention to the economy of the animal creation, we shall find manifest examples of premeditation, perseverance, resolution, and consumate artifice, in order to effect their purpose."

"If we do not permit the earth to produce beauty and joy, it will in the end not produce food, either."

"If we gave up eating beef we would have roughly 20 to 30 times more land for food than we have now."

"If you violate Nature's laws you are your own prosecuting attorney, judge, jury, and hangman."

"In a few decades, the relationship between the environment, resources and conflict may seem almost as obvious as the connection we see today between human rights, democracy and peace."

"In a finite world this means that the per capita share of the world's goods must steadily decrease."

"In today's world, it is no longer unimaginable to think that business can operate - and even thrive - in an environmentally-friendly manner."

"Industry is fortune's right hand, and frugality its left."

"It is absolutely imperative that we protect, preserve and pass on this genetic heritage for man and every other living thing in as good a condition as we received it."

"It seems that every time mankind is given a lot of energy, we go out and wreck something with it."

"Journey with me to a true commitment to our environment. Journey with me to the serenity of leaving to our children a planet in equilibrium."

"Keep close to Nature's heart... and break clear away, once in awhile, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean."