Environmental Quotes

• 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 river, for example, is the living symbol of all the life it sustains or nourishes - fish, aquatic insects, water ouzels, otter, fisher, deer, elk, bear, and all other animals, including man, who are dependent on it or who enjoy it for its sight, its sound, or its life. The river as plaintiff speaks for the ecological unit of life that is part of it.

  

  William O. Douglas
  • Men
  • Water
  • Animal

• I'd say that animal rights and environmental issues have always been at the forefront of my mind.

  

  Corey Feldman
  • Environmental
  • My Mind
  • Animal Rights

• Moreover, environmental health at the local level has become narrowly focused, very much defined around regulations and the attendant regulatory debates.

  

  Samuel Wilson
  • Environmental
  • Focused
  • Regulations

• I always thought we had an environmental problem, but I hadn't realized how urgent it was. James Lovelock writes that by the end of this century there will be one billion people left.

  

  Vivienne Westwood
  • People
  • Writing
  • Problem

• If environmental protection efforts continue to lag behind economic growth, pollution will become even more rampant.

  

  Zhou Shengxian
  • Effort
  • Growth
  • Economic

• Simply the thing that I am shall make me live.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Environment
  • Simplicity
  • Memorable

• The communications revolution has given millions of people both a wider and more detailed understanding of the world. Because of technology, ordinary citizens enjoy access to information that formerly was available only to elites and nation-states. One consequence of this change is that citizens have become acutely conscious of environmental destruction, entrenched poverty, health catastrophes, human rights abuses, failing education systems, and escalating violence. Another consequence is that people possess powerful communication tools to coordinate efforts to attack those problems.

  

  David Bornstein
  • People
  • Education
  • Problem

• 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

• I can tell you many reasons why environmental stories don't get adequate attention in conventional media. Basically, environmental risks don't fit the norms of journalism. They're incremental. We hate incremental.

  

  Andrew Revkin
  • Hate
  • Attention
  • Reason

• Letting the perfect be the enemy of the good is one of the reasons we have a coal-dependent infrastructure, with the resulting environmental impact that all of us can see. I suspect environmentalists, through their opposition of nuclear power, have caused more coal plants to be built than anybody. And those coal plants have emitted more radioactive material from the coal than any nuclear accident would have.

  

  Vinod Khosla
  • Perfect
  • Reason
  • Enemy

• I don't think people are like, "I'm going to save the planet by planting my own herbs." But on environmental issues like climate change, there's a sense of hopelessness and despair. Maybe it's really a small gesture but if you can have a garden it may make you feel like you're helping in some way, or that you're making a connection. You can't change the world but you can change your backyard.

  

  Novella Carpenter
  • People
  • World
  • Helping

• The survey of more than 100 waterways downstream from treatment plants and animal feedlots in 30 states found minute amounts of dozens of antibiotics, hormones, pain relievers, cough suppressants, disinfectants and other products. It is not known whether they are harmful to plants, animals or people. The findings were released yesterday on the Web site of the United States Geological Survey, which conducted the research, and in an online journal, Environmental Science and Technology.

  

  Andrew Revkin
  • People
  • Technology
  • Pain

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

  

  William Nordhaus
  • Policy
  • Strategy
  • Behinds

• Research suggests that exposure to the natural world - including nearby nature in cities - helps improve human health, well-being, and intellectual capacity in ways that science is only recently beginning to understand.

  

  Richard Louv
  • World
  • Human
  • Capacity

• We know that acid rain has had no significant environmental effect on trees or forests in the United States... It is based on popular myths and half-baked theories.

  

  Haley Reeves Barbour
  • Tree
  • Rain
  • Significant

• 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

• An environment-based education movement--at all levels of education--will help students realize that school isn't supposed to be a polite form of incarceration, but a portal to the wider world.

  

  Richard Louv
  • Parent
  • Students
  • Incarceration

• 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

• It's the nightmare scenario that environmental activists around the world have been hoping would be avoided.

  

  Elizabeth May
  • Environmental
  • Nightmare
  • Activists

• Additional federal studies are under way to see if any contamination reaches taps or ground water used for drinking, but the program under which they are conducted, the toxic substances hydrology program of the geological survey, is slated to be eliminated under budget cuts proposed by the Bush administration, government officials said... estrogens and similar compounds are increasingly the focus of research by the Environmental Protection Agency and many scientists because of hints that they alter sexual characteristics in fish and other aquatic species.

  

  Andrew Revkin
  • Water
  • Focus
  • Study

• 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

• There's something very environmental about quality. We live in such a disposable society, but real style doesn't change that much.

  

  Elizabeth Rogers
  • Change
  • Style
  • Quality

• 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

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