Environmental Quotes

"Liberals in Congress have spent the past three decades pandering to environmental extremists. The policies they have put in place are in large part responsible for the energy crunch we are seeing today. We have not built a refinery in this country for 30 years."

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

"Maintaining healthy forests is essential to those who make a living from the land and for those of us who use them for recreational purposes."

"Mankind is considered (by the radical environmentalists) the lowest and the meanest of all species and is blamed for everything."

"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."

"Population, when unchecked, goes on doubling itself every 25 years or increases in a geometrical ratio."

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

"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 government should set a goal for a clean environment but not mandate how that goal should be implemented."

"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!"

"They claim this mother of ours, the Earth, for their own use, and fence their neighbors away from her, and deface her with their buildings and their refuse."

"Under the Environmental Protection Agency's Energy Star Program, homes are independently verified to be measurably more energy efficient than average houses."