Environmental Quotes

"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."

"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."

"Local innovation and initiative can help us better understand how to protect our environment."

"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has."

"No one should be able to enter a wilderness by mechanical means."

"Not all is doom and gloom. We are beginning to understand the natural world and are gaining a reverence for life - all life."

"Nuclear power will help provide the electricity that our growing economy needs without increasing emissions. This is truly an environmentally responsible source of energy."

"Our world faces a true planetary emergency. I know the phrase sounds shrill, and I know it's a challenge to the moral imagination."

"People blame their environment. There is only one person to blame - and only one - themselves."

"People in Slow Food understand that food is an environmental issue."

"Pushing production out of America to nations without our environmental standards increases global environmental risks."