Top environmental Quotes Collection

Discover a curated collection of environmental quotes. Find inspiration, motivation, and wisdom from the best quotes in this category.

Image of Margaret Mead
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.
- Margaret Mead
Collection: Environmental
Image of Chief Seattle
The Earth does not belong to us: we belong to the Earth.
- Chief Seattle
Collection: Environmental
Image of Aldo Leopold
Conservation is a state of harmony between men and land.
- Aldo Leopold
Collection: Environmental
Image of Evo Morales
Sooner or later, we will have to recognise that the Earth has rights, too, to live without pollution. What mankind must know is that human beings cannot live without Mother Earth, but the planet can live without humans.
- Evo Morales
Collection: Environmental
Image of Bill Nye
Climate change is happening, humans are causing it, and I think this is perhaps the most serious environmental issue facing us.
- Bill Nye
Collection: Environmental
Image of John Muir
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.
- John Muir
Collection: Environmental
Image of Jacques Yves Cousteau
Water and air, the two essential fluids on which all life depends, have become global garbage cans.
- Jacques Yves Cousteau
Collection: Environmental
Image of Albert Einstein
The environment is everything that isn't me.
- Albert Einstein
Collection: Environmental
Image of William Inge
We have enslaved the rest of the animal creation, and have treated our distant cousins in fur and feathers so badly that beyond doubt, if they were able to formulate a religion, they would depict the Devil in human form.
- William Inge
Collection: Environmental
Image of Richard Rogers
The only way forward, if we are going to improve the quality of the environment, is to get everybody involved.
- Richard Rogers
Collection: Environmental
Image of Kurt Vonnegut
We could have saved the Earth but we were too damned cheap.
- Kurt Vonnegut
Collection: Environmental
Image of Henry David Thoreau
Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.
- Henry David Thoreau
Collection: Environmental
Image of Bill Gates
Climate change is a terrible problem, and it absolutely needs to be solved. It deserves to be a huge priority.
- Bill Gates
Collection: Environmental
Image of Sidney Sheldon
Try to leave the Earth a better place than when you arrived.
- Sidney Sheldon
Collection: Environmental
Image of Bob Brown
The future will either be green or not at all.
- Bob Brown
Collection: Environmental
Image of Elon Musk
We're running the most dangerous experiment in history right now, which is to see how much carbon dioxide the atmosphere... can handle before there is an environmental catastrophe.
- Elon Musk
Collection: Environmental
Image of Carlos Ghosn
The time is right for electric cars - in fact the time is critical.
- Carlos Ghosn
Collection: Environmental
Image of Alex Trebek
If you can't be in awe of Mother Nature, there's something wrong with you.
- Alex Trebek
Collection: Environmental
Image of Mike Huckabee
The most important thing about global warming is this. Whether humans are responsible for the bulk of climate change is going to be left to the scientists, but it's all of our responsibility to leave this planet in better shape for the future generations than we found it.
- Mike Huckabee
Collection: Environmental
Image of Barry Commoner
Environmental pollution is an incurable disease. It can only be prevented.
- Barry Commoner
Collection: Environmental
Image of James Lovelock
Sadly, it's much easier to create a desert than a forest.
- James Lovelock
Collection: Environmental
Image of Ansel Adams
It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment.
- Ansel Adams
Collection: Environmental
Image of E. O. Wilson
If all mankind were to disappear, the world would regenerate back to the rich state of equilibrium that existed ten thousand years ago. If insects were to vanish, the environment would collapse into chaos.
- E. O. Wilson
Collection: Environmental
Image of Dennis Weaver
We don't have to sacrifice a strong economy for a healthy environment.
- Dennis Weaver
Collection: Environmental
Image of Leonardo DiCaprio
Raising awareness on the most pressing environmental issues of our time is more important than ever.
- Leonardo DiCaprio
Collection: Environmental
Image of Wangari Maathai
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.
- Wangari Maathai
Collection: Environmental
Image of Sitting Bull
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.
- Sitting Bull
Collection: Environmental
Image of Stewart Udall
Plans to protect air and water, wilderness and wildlife are in fact plans to protect man.
- Stewart Udall
Collection: Environmental
Image of Jacob Bronowski
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.
- Jacob Bronowski
Collection: Environmental
Image of Yoko Ono
Every drop in the ocean counts.
- Yoko Ono
Collection: Environmental
Image of G. Gordon Liddy
Environmentalism is a form of pagan fundamentalism. These green wackos are fanatics like al-Quaida. Just like them.
- G. Gordon Liddy
Collection: Environmental
Image of Robert Redford
I think the environment should be put in the category of our national security. Defense of our resources is just as important as defense abroad. Otherwise what is there to defend?
- Robert Redford
Collection: Environmental
Image of Aeschylus
By polluting clear water with slime you will never find good drinking water.
- Aeschylus
Collection: Environmental
Image of O. Henry
We may achieve climate, but weather is thrust upon us.
- O. Henry
Collection: Environmental
Image of Paul Hawken
All is connected... no one thing can change by itself.
- Paul Hawken
Collection: Environmental
Image of Al Gore
I think the cost of energy will come down when we make this transition to renewable energy.
- Al Gore
Collection: Environmental
Image of Tom Allen
Energy conservation is the foundation of energy independence.
- Tom Allen
Collection: Environmental
Image of John Garamendi
Mother Nature comes up against reality, and the reality is that the system doesn't work.
- John Garamendi
Collection: Environmental
Image of John Dewey
Nature is the mother and the habitat of man, even if sometimes a stepmother and an unfriendly home.
- John Dewey
Collection: Environmental
Image of Gloria Reuben
It seems to me like Mother Nature's mercy and forgiveness have run dry, as we ceaselessly abuse her and take her for granted in order for us to continue our addiction to using fossil fuels. I've gotta say, I don't blame her. Not one bit.
- Gloria Reuben
Collection: Environmental
Image of Unknown
A true conservationist is a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers, but borrowed from his children.
- Unknown
Collection: Environmental
Image of Luther Burbank
We must return to nature and nature's god.
- Luther Burbank
Collection: Environmental
Image of Lindsey Graham
The sooner we get started with alternative energy sources and recognize that fossil fuels makes us less secure as a nation, and more dangerous as a planet, the better off we'll be.
- Lindsey Graham
Collection: Environmental
Image of Russel Honore
People need to be cautious because anything built by man can be destroyed by Mother Nature.
- Russel Honore
Collection: Environmental
Image of Dan Lipinski
Yet, despite our many advances, our environment is still threatened by a range of problems, including global climate change, energy dependence on unsustainable fossil fuels, and loss of biodiversity.
- Dan Lipinski
Collection: Environmental
Image of John Doerr
Green-tech could be the largest economic opportunity of the 21st Century.
- John Doerr
Collection: Environmental
Image of Elon Musk
The reality is gas prices should be much more expensive then they are because we're not incorporating the true damage to the environment and the hidden costs of mining oil and transporting it to the U.S. Whenever you have an unpriced externality, you have a bit of a market failure, to the degree that eternality remains unpriced.
- Elon Musk
Collection: Environmental
Image of Joseph Wood Krutch
If we do not permit the earth to produce beauty and joy, it will in the end not produce food, either.
- Joseph Wood Krutch
Collection: Environmental
Image of Henry David Thoreau
If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen.
- Henry David Thoreau
Collection: Environmental
Image of Paul Tsongas
Journey with me to a true commitment to our environment. Journey with me to the serenity of leaving to our children a planet in equilibrium.
- Paul Tsongas
Collection: Environmental