Environmental Quotes

"Take a course in good water and air; and in the eternal youth of Nature you may renew your own. Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you."

"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."

"The only way forward, if we are going to improve the quality of the environment, is to get everybody involved."

"There is no place where we can safely store worn-out reactors or their garbage. No place!"

"Unless we keep this planet healthy, everything else is for naught."

"We are now heading down a centuries-long path toward increasing the productivity of our natural capital - the resource systems upon which we depend to live - instead of our human capital."

"We assume that everything's becoming more efficient, and in an immediate sense that's true; our lives are better in many ways. But that improvement has been gained through a massively inefficient use of natural resources."

"We don't have to sacrifice a strong economy for a healthy environment."

"We learned that economic growth and environmental protection can and should go hand in hand."

"We won't have a society if we destroy the environment."

"When a man wantonly destroys one of the works of man we call him a vandal. When he destroys one of the works of god we call him a sportsman."

"When we realize we can make a buck cleaning up the environment, it will be done!"

"When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe."

"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."

"Why has it seemed that the only way to protect the environment is with heavy-handed government regulation?"

"You may be able to fool the voters, but not the atmosphere."

"You will die but the carbon will not; its career does not end with you. It will return to the soil, and there a plant may take it up again in time, sending it once more on a cycle of plant and animal life."