Top environmental Quotes Collection - Page 18

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Image of Kofi Annan
I often quote an African proverb that says: "The world is not ours, the earth is not ours, It's a treasure we hold in trust for future generations." And I often hope we will be worthy of that trust.
- Kofi Annan
Collection: Environmental
Image of Daniel Gilbert
We humans can look deep into future and predict what will happen, but then turn around and do nothing about it.
- Daniel Gilbert
Collection: Environmental
Image of Jacque Fresco
Science and education, when devoid of a social conscience or environmental and human concern, are meaningless.
- Jacque Fresco
Collection: Environmental
Image of Stephen Jay Gould
There is no gene "for" such unambiguous bits of morphology as your left kneecap or your fingernail. [...] Hundreds of genes contribute to the building of most body parts and their action is channeled through a kaleidoscopic series of environmental influences: embryonic and postnatal, internal and external. Parts are not translated genes, and selection doesn't even work directly on parts.
- Stephen Jay Gould
Collection: Environmental
Image of Mahatma Gandhi
God forbid that India should ever take to industrialism after the manner of the west... keeping the world in chains. If [our nation] took to similar economic exploitation, it would strip the world bare like locusts.
- Mahatma Gandhi
Collection: Environmental
Image of Janeane Garofalo
Without liberals we wouldn't have unions. We wouldn't have environmental protections. We wouldn't have seat belts or birth control or the ACLU! Any of these things!
- Janeane Garofalo
Collection: Environmental
Image of Mikhail Gorbachev
Humankind has no option but to protect and live in harmony with its natural environment. However, it would be regrettable if in putting an end to revolutionary extremism, we should then come to environmental extremism. We should not forget that all extremes are the same.
- Mikhail Gorbachev
Collection: Environmental
Image of Jacque Fresco
If our system continues without modification involving environmental and social concern, we will face an economic and social break down.
- Jacque Fresco
Collection: Environmental
Image of Carl Jung
Our intellect has created a new world that dominates nature, and has populated it with monstrous machines.
- Carl Jung
Collection: Environmental
Image of Michele Bachmann
Carbon dioxide is natural, it is not harmful, it is a part of Earth's lifecycle. And yet we're being told that we have to reduce this natural substance, reduce the American standard of living, to create an arbitrary reduction in something that is naturally occurring in Earth.
- Michele Bachmann
Collection: Environmental
Image of Derrick Jensen
The global industrial economy is the engine for massive environmental degradation and massive human (and nonhuman) impoverishment.
- Derrick Jensen
Collection: Environmental
Image of Dennis Kucinich
If you drill, there's going to be a spill. It's axiomatic.
- Dennis Kucinich
Collection: Environmental
Image of Satish Kumar
If we go on using the Earth uncaringly and without replenishing it, then we are just greedy consumers.
- Satish Kumar
Collection: Environmental
Image of Russell Baker
The twentieth century seems afflicted by a gigantic... power failure. Powerlessness and the sense of powerlessness may be the environmental disease of the age.
- Russell Baker
Collection: Environmental
Image of Ray Kurzweil
We only have to capture 1/10,000th of the solar energy landing on earth to completely satisfy all our energy needs.
- Ray Kurzweil
Collection: Environmental
Image of Barbara Kingsolver
There must be limits, somewhere, to the human footprint on this earth. When the whole of the world is reduced to nothing but human product, we will have lost the map that can show us how we got here, and can offer our spirits an answer when we ask why. Surely we are capable of declaring sacred some quarters that we dare not enter or possess.
- Barbara Kingsolver
Collection: Environmental
Image of John McCain
Our nation's continued prosperity hinges on our ability to solve environmental problems and sustain the natural resources on which we all depend.
- John McCain
Collection: Environmental
Image of Marshall McLuhan
The present is always invisible because its environmental. No environment is perceptible, simply because it saturates the whole field of attention.
- Marshall McLuhan
Collection: Environmental
Image of Marshall McLuhan
Pornography and violence are by-products of societies in which private identity has been ... destroyed by sudden environmental change.
- Marshall McLuhan
Collection: Environmental