Top environmental Quotes Collection - Page 16

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Image of Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva
No sustainable development, environmental harmony or lasting security will happen if we are unable to eradicate hunger and extreme inequality
- Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva
Collection: Environmental
Image of Walt Whitman
Where the earth is, we are.
- Walt Whitman
Collection: Environmental
Image of David Suzuki
In nature there is no such thing as waste. In nature nothing is wasted; everything is recycled.
- David Suzuki
Collection: Environmental
Image of Pete Seeger
If it can’t be reduced, reused, repaired, rebuilt, refurbished, refinished, resold, recycled or composted, then it should be restricted, redesigned or removed from production.
- Pete Seeger
Collection: Environmental
Image of Thomas  Moore
There is no way to re-enchant our lives in a disenchanted culture except by becoming renegades from that culture and planting the seeds for a new one.
- Thomas Moore
Collection: Environmental
Image of Terri Irwin
You completely rediscovered & relived everything to do with wildlife.
- Terri Irwin
Collection: Environmental
Image of Ilya Prigogine
Now we see evolutionary trends in a variety of areas ranging from atomic and molecular physics through fluid mechanics, chemistry and biology to large scale systems of relevance in environmental and economic sciences
- Ilya Prigogine
Collection: Environmental
Image of Seyyed Hossein Nasr
To be modern is to destroy nature.
- Seyyed Hossein Nasr
Collection: Environmental
Image of Mark Bittman
If you embrace moderation, eat whole foods instead of junk, live within your physical, monetary, and environmental budget rather than constantly exceeding it, you will lose weight, tread more lightly on the planet, and gain satisfaction from these things.
- Mark Bittman
Collection: Environmental
Image of Warren Christopher
Environmental degradation, overpopulation, refugees, narcotics, terrorism, world crime movements, and organized crime are worldwide problems that don't stop at a nation's borders.
- Warren Christopher
Collection: Environmental
Image of Thom Hartmann
A species may eat a particular bacterium, phytoplankton, smaller fish, or plant in an area. Lacking a predator, these species/populations will overgrow and alter the area's biology, overwhelming and driving to extinction dozens or hundreds or thousands of other local species.
- Thom Hartmann
Collection: Environmental
Image of Jakob Bohme
Everything we see in nature is manifested truth; only we are not able to recognize it unless truth is manifest within ourselves.
- Jakob Bohme
Collection: Environmental
Image of Joan Dye Gussow
Nature does not pile up 1000 hogs, then hope for the best.
- Joan Dye Gussow
Collection: Environmental
Image of Wes Jackson
If we are really serious about protecting the environment, the discharge pipes and stacks of industry would all plug directly into their intake side, and costs would not be externalized to a voiceless environment.
- Wes Jackson
Collection: Environmental
Image of Lester R. Brown
Socialism failed because it couldn't tell the economic truth. Capitalism may fail because it couldn't tell the ecological truth.
- Lester R. Brown
Collection: Environmental
Image of James H. Cone
If we save the planet and have a society of inequality, we wouldn't have saved much.
- James H. Cone
Collection: Environmental
Image of Alice Waters
Eating is an environmental act.
- Alice Waters
Collection: Environmental
Image of David W. Orr
The dialogue about sustainability is about a change in the human trajectory that will require us to rethink old assumptions and engage the large questions of the human condition that some presume to have been solved once and for all.
- David W. Orr
Collection: Environmental
Image of Denis Hayes
I feel more confident than ever that the power to save the planet rests with the individual consumer.
- Denis Hayes
Collection: Environmental
Image of Denis Hayes
We got everyone's attention, but we didn't solve any environmental problems.
- Denis Hayes
Collection: Environmental
Image of Yvon Chouinard
Everything we personally own that’s made, sold, shipped, stored, cleaned, and ultimately thrown away does some environmental harm every step of the way, harm that we’re either directly responsible for or is done on our behalf.
- Yvon Chouinard
Collection: Environmental
Image of Mike Farrell
What we are seeing here is environmental injustice
- Mike Farrell
Collection: Environmental
Image of Julia Hill
You have to hold yourself accountable for your actions, and that's how we're going to protect the Earth.
- Julia Hill
Collection: Environmental
Image of Eberhard Arnold
Whoever is gripped by God's spirit turns to his creation with all the interest that comes from God's love.
- Eberhard Arnold
Collection: Environmental
Image of John of Damascus
Because of the Incarnation, I salute all remaining matter with reverence.
- John of Damascus
Collection: Environmental
Image of Matthew Simmons
We need to find three Saudi Arabias just to offset [the] decline.
- Matthew Simmons
Collection: Environmental
Image of Chris Kluwe
In an ideal world, entertainment would be regarded as what it is - entertainment - and wouldn't be valued more heavily than education, than science, than environmental awareness.
- Chris Kluwe
Collection: Environmental
Image of Richard Heinberg
When a caterpillar eats a leaf, then a thrush eats the caterpillar, or when a hawk eats the thrush only 5 to 20% of usable energy is transferred from one level to the next. ... Thus herbivores will account for a much smaller fraction of the biomass [than plants] and the carnivores for a still smaller fraction.
- Richard Heinberg
Collection: Environmental
Image of Alan AtKisson
There can be no question about whether we should or should not transform our society in the direction of sustainability.
- Alan AtKisson
Collection: Environmental
Image of Gordon R. Sullivan
Climate change is and will be a significant threat to our national security and in a larger sense to life on earth as we know it to be.
- Gordon R. Sullivan
Collection: Environmental
Image of Barry Commoner
The favorite statistic is that the U.S. contains 6 to 7% of the world population but consumes more than half the world's resources and is responsible for that fraction of the total environmental pollution. But this statistic hides another vital fact: that not everyone in the U.S. is so affluent.
- Barry Commoner
Collection: Environmental
Image of Christiana Figueres
Quite frankly, there is no answer to climate change without substantially, dramatically, increasing the amount of renewable energy in the global energy system.
- Christiana Figueres
Collection: Environmental
Image of Mike Patton
Stan Slaughter is the thoroughbred of the environmental educators I've hired. Second place is not even close.
- Mike Patton
Collection: Environmental
Image of Brooks Stevens
Our whole economy is based on planned obsolescence.
- Brooks Stevens
Collection: Environmental
Image of Sandra Steingraber
Between the late 1950s and the late 1980s, more than 750 million tons of chemical wastes were discarded.
- Sandra Steingraber
Collection: Environmental
Image of Sandra Steingraber
Indeed, the quantity of PCBs still in use plus the quantity still languishing in waste dumps exceeds the total amount that has already escaped into the general environment. Without a program to recall and contain them, semivolatile PCBs will continue to insinuate themselves into the food chain for decades.
- Sandra Steingraber
Collection: Environmental
Image of Ottmar Edenhofer
But one must say clearly that we redistribute de facto the world's wealth by climate policy...One has to free oneself from the illusion that international climate policy is environmental policy any more.
- Ottmar Edenhofer
Collection: Environmental
Image of Ottmar Edenhofer
Climate policy has almost nothing to do anymore with environmental protection, says the German economist and IPCC official Ottmar Edenhofer. The next world climate summit in Cancun is actually an economy summit during which the distribution of the worlds resources will be negotiated.
- Ottmar Edenhofer
Collection: Environmental
Image of John C. Sawhill
Society is defined not only by what it creates, but by what it refuses to destroy.
- John C. Sawhill
Collection: Environmental
Image of William Cronon
By seeing the otherness in that which is most unfamiliar, we can learn to see it too in that which at first seemed merely ordinary. If wilderness can do this - if it can help us perceive and respect a nature we had forgotten to recognize as natural - then it will become part of the solution to our environmental dilemmas rather than part of the problem.
- William Cronon
Collection: Environmental
Image of Philip Sherrard
We do not have any respect, let alone reverence, for the world of nature because we do not have any respect, let alone reverence, for ourselves. It is because we cripple and mutilate ourselves that we cripple and mutilate everything else as well. Our contemporary crisis is really our own depravity writ large.
- Philip Sherrard
Collection: Environmental
Image of Gregg Easterbrook
Though environmental orthodoxy holds that Third World deforestation is caused by rapacious clear-cutters and ruthless cattle barons, penniless peasants seeking fuel wood may be the greatest threat to our forests.
- Gregg Easterbrook
Collection: Environmental
Image of Alison Hawthorne Deming
The environment is becoming so much a central concern, I see environmental concerns just bleeding into poetries all over the place. My hope is that we won't have these environmental poets tucked over here and everybody else doing cool stuff with language and consciousness elsewhere, but that all of it will become one thing.
- Alison Hawthorne Deming
Collection: Environmental
Image of William Kittredge
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
Collection: Environmental
Image of Brian Swimme
The universe is an inexhaustible celebration of ultimate mystery!
- Brian Swimme
Collection: Environmental
Image of Michael O'Leary
We want to annoy the whenever we can. The best thing we can do with environmentalists is shoot them.
- Michael O'Leary
Collection: Environmental
Image of Arthur Jensen
The orthodox environmental theories [of heredity] have been accepted not because they have stood up under proper scientific investigations, but because they harmonize so well with our democratic belief in human equality.
- Arthur Jensen
Collection: Environmental
Image of John Densmore
I've been a longtime supporter of all sorts of environmental groups.
- John Densmore
Collection: Environmental
Image of Daniel Gilbert
Humans react to danger when it is immediate, immoral, visible... Global warming does not press any of those buttons.
- Daniel Gilbert
Collection: Environmental