Environmental Quotes

• We need a new environmental consciousness on a global basis. To do this, we need to educate people.

  

  Mikhail Gorbachev
  • People
  • Consciousness
  • Bases

• Ethanol is a premier, high performance fuel. It has tremendous environmental benefits and is a key component to energy independence for our country.

  

  Richard Lugar
  • Energy
  • Independence
  • Components

• We have to understand the ubiquity of energy in everything we do. Energy is core to our economy and it brings with it environmental challenges, and it's core to our security challenges.

  

  Ernest Moniz
  • Energy
  • Challenges
  • Economy

• The strategy behind the Kyoto Protocol has no grounding in economics or environmental policy.

  

  William Nordhaus
  • Policy
  • Strategy
  • Behinds

• Another thing I like about German cities - and it's an advantage which they haven't sufficiently exploited yet - is that they are pioneers when it comes to environmental technologies. And green solutions are becoming more and more important.

  

  Charles Landry
  • Important
  • Technology
  • Advantage

• Climate change is the world's greatest environmental challenge. It is now plain that the emission of greenhouse gases, associated with industrialization and economic growth...is causing global warming at a rate that is unsustainable.

  

  Tony Blair
  • Energy
  • Environment
  • Growth

• Unrestrained automobility, hedonism, individualism, and conspicuous consumption cannot be sustained because they take more than they give back. A spiritually impoverished world cannot be sustained because meaninglessness, anomie, and despair will corrode the desire to be sustained and the belief that humanity is worth sustaining. But these are the very things that distinguish the modern age from its predecessors, Genuine sustainability, in other words, will come not from superficial changes but from a deeper process akin to humankind growing up to a fuller stature.

  

  David W. Orr
  • Giving
  • Despair
  • Individualism

• To have some parts flowing free again . . . with deer grazing on its banks . . . ducks and geese raising their young in the backwaters . . . eddies and twists and turns for canoeists . . . and fishing opportunities such as Lewis and Clark enjoyed . . . would be the finest possible tribute to the men of the Expedition, and a priceless gift for our children.

  

  Stephen Ambrose
  • Children
  • Opportunity
  • Priceless

• Human populations must be greatly diminished, and as quickly as possible to limit further environmental damage. The only real good technology is no technology at all. Technology is taxation without representation, imposed by our elitist species (man) upon the rest of the natural world.

  

  Eric Pianka
  • Technology
  • Species
  • Damage

• We discover too late that we have turned a blind eye to the extinction of a species that is essential to the balance of life in a particular context. Or we discover too late that the importation of a foreign life-form, animal or vegetable, has upset local ecosystems, damaging soil or neighbouring life-forms. We discover that we have come near the end of supplies-of fossil-fuels for example -on which we have built immense structures of routine expectation.

  

  Rowan Williams
  • Eye
  • Balance
  • Animal

• 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.

  

  William Bartram
  • Attention
  • Animal
  • Perseverance

• Thanks to the growing strength of environmental organizations, there will always be some back country to provide us with a touch of wonder and a breath of fresh air.

  

  Wallace Stegner
  • Strength
  • Environmental
  • Organizations

• The air is full of a farewell- deserted by the silver lake lies the wild world, overturned. Cities rise where the mountains fell, the furnace where the phoenix burned

  

  Kathleen Raine
  • World
  • Lying
  • Mountain

• Even if, personally, I'm in a place of contentment or solidity, I feel like it's hard not to look out into American culture and see vast inequity, widespread institutionalized violence and racism and transphobia and environmental destruction. It's hard to be in this world and feel a sense of innate satisfaction at all. There's plenty of things to feel unsettled about.

  

  Carrie Brownstein
  • World
  • Culture
  • Violence

• Time after time we're told corporations should have freedom from pesky job safety regulations, environmental protections and labor standards - giving working people the freedom to be crushed in collapsing mines, choke on filthy air and get paid too little to live on.

  

  Richard Trumka
  • Environmental
  • Standards
  • Regulations

• We have a situation where we are rich really as a world overall, and yet we have the capacity to destroy ourselves, either through nuclear weapons or through environmental degradation, and we allow the life chances of hundreds of millions of people to be destroyed because we haven't found the will to tackle it

  

  Tony Blair
  • World
  • Future
  • Vision

• Musicians always want to sacrifice our creativity to get involved in environmental issues or political activism of some sort - to reduce it to something more populist in terms of sing-alongs or guitar songs with a message.

  

  Eyvind Kang
  • Creativity
  • Songs
  • Guitar

• There should be more attention paid to scientific research in the ecology area, and I think that such attention to proper environmental concerns would make the public feel much better about it.

  

  Thomas R. Cech
  • Attention
  • Concern
  • Ecology

• My efforts in Congress are guided by the belief that environmental preservation and restoration are a critical part of the legacy we leave to future generations.

  

  Sue Kelly
  • Legacy
  • Generations
  • Environmental

• I wish that some way could be found to add up all the staggering costs imposed on millions of ordinary people, just so a relative handful of self-righteous environmental cultists can go around feeling puffed up with themselves.

  

  Thomas Sowell
  • Wish
  • Feelings
  • Relative

• Our overriding environmental challenge tonight is the worldwide problem of climate change, global warming, the gathering crisis that requires worldwide action.

  

  Bill Clinton
  • Problem
  • Environmental
  • Climate Change

• We must treat water as if it were the most precious thing in the world, the most valuable natural resource. Be economical with water! Don't waste it! We still have time to do something about this problem before it is too late.

  

  Mikhail Gorbachev
  • Problem
  • Water
  • Things

• The Lockean assumption that if we put our labor to it then it becomes our own is totally fallacious. We have to figure out how to leave things alone, and build an economic system that's not built on a linear model, but instead on a cyclical model, because that's the natural world - it's cyclical and not linear. That is going to take a lot of transformation.

  

  Winona LaDuke
  • World
  • Environmental

• The specific danger is us; we are rampant; this earth is our only friend; we are destroying it increment by increment at a horrific rate. We must understand that we can't buy it back.

  

  William Kittredge
  • Environmental
  • Destroying

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