Top environmental Quotes Collection - Page 8

Discover a curated collection of environmental quotes. Find inspiration, motivation, and wisdom from the best quotes in this category. Page 8 provides more environmental quotes.

Image of Galen Rowell
These days, most nature photographers are deeply committed to the environmental message.
- Galen Rowell
Collection: Environmental
Image of Timothy Morton
Invoking Nature always measures the distance we have yet to travel to achieve real progress on environmental issues.
- Timothy Morton
Collection: Environmental
Image of Hilary Benn
I agree on the need for environmental sustainability. It is no good raising gross national income while at the same time destroying natural assets.
- Hilary Benn
Collection: Environmental
Image of Sheldon Whitehouse
Fossil fuel companies and their allies are funding a massive and sophisticated campaign to mislead the American people about the environmental harm caused by carbon pollution.
- Sheldon Whitehouse
Collection: Environmental
Image of Nikolaas Tinbergen
The majority of autists - as well as their parents - seem to be genuine victims of environmental stress.
- Nikolaas Tinbergen
Collection: Environmental
Image of Bill Maris
There are environmental threats to health; there are internal threats to health - genetic conditions, viral threats, diseases like cancer and Parkinson's. And then there are societal and global ones, like poverty and lack of nutrition. And unknown viral threats - everything from a new kind of influenza to hemorrhagic fever.
- Bill Maris
Collection: Environmental
Image of Jean-Francois Cope
There has been a banking crisis, a financial crisis, an economic crisis, a social crisis, a geostrategic crisis and an environmental crisis. That's considerable in a country that's used to being protected.
- Jean-Francois Cope
Collection: Environmental
Image of Stewart Udall
Lady Bird Johnson did more than plant flowers in public places. She served the country superbly by planting environmental values in the minds of the nation's leaders and citizens.
- Stewart Udall
Collection: Environmental
Image of Frances Beinecke
Climate change is the central environmental ill of our time. We have an obligation to protect our children from the dangers of this widening scourge, and we aren't yet doing enough about it.
- Frances Beinecke
Collection: Environmental
Image of Joel Salatin
Our land-healing ministry really is about cultivating relationships: between the people, the loving stewards, and the ecology of a place, what I call the environmental umbilical that we're nurturing here.
- Joel Salatin
Collection: Environmental
Image of Tyler Cowen
For the U.S., I think we should have a carbon tax, for environmental reasons.
- Tyler Cowen
Collection: Environmental
Image of Bernice King
Environmental injustice is a tangible, intolerable example of an exhibited moral laxity and minimal concern for healthy standards by corporations and political structures based on the race, ethnicity, and class of those being impacted.
- Bernice King
Collection: Environmental
Image of Barbara Boxer
We have fought for social justice. We have fought for economic justice. We have fought for environmental justice. We have fought for criminal justice. Now we must add a new fight - the fight for electoral justice.
- Barbara Boxer
Collection: Environmental
Image of Ed Begley, Jr.
The environmental crisis is all a result of rushing.
- Ed Begley, Jr.
Collection: Environmental
Image of Michael Shellenberger
Sunlight and wind are inherently unreliable and energy-dilute. As such, adding solar panels and wind turbines to the grid in large quantities increases the cost of generating electricity, locks in fossil fuels, and increases the environmental footprint of energy production.
- Michael Shellenberger
Collection: Environmental
Image of Michelle Lujan Grisham
Congress created tax-exempt 501(c)(4)s to operate exclusively for social welfare purposes like early childhood education, environmental protection, and veteran's assistance. However, an IRS regulation allows 501(c)(4)s to operate primarily for the promotion of social welfare.
- Michelle Lujan Grisham
Collection: Environmental
Image of Martin Luther King III
Many people of color live on the front lines of environmental hazard and harm.
- Martin Luther King III
Collection: Environmental
Image of John Mackey
I've always thought the main argument for organic was more environmental than a health argument. I just don't think spraying a lot of pesticides into the environment on a routine basis is a good thing.
- John Mackey
Collection: Environmental
Image of Jaggi Vasudev
Automobile companies are always allergic to any kind of environmental movement.
- Jaggi Vasudev
Collection: Environmental
Image of Muhammad Yunus
Peace should be understood in a human way - in a broad social, political and economic way. Peace is threatened by unjust economic, social and political order, absence of democracy, environmental degradation and absence of human rights.
- Muhammad Yunus
Collection: Environmental
Image of Andrew Nikiforuk
If Canada could simply apply the basic principles of sustainable development, such as the internalization of costs and 'polluters pay,' it would have long-term beneficial effects, both environmental and economic.
- Andrew Nikiforuk
Collection: Environmental
Image of David James Duncan
Ecosystems are holy. The word "environmental" is a deadly compromise itself. It's a policy word that lives only in the head, and barely there.
- David James Duncan
Collection: Environmental
Image of John Bel Edwards
I am committed to working with industry leaders, environmental advocates, and the people of Louisiana on a robust plan that provides much needed protection for our coast and environment and that meets the needs of offshore drilling.
- John Bel Edwards
Collection: Environmental
Image of Ramez Naam
Producing food to eat is the single most destructive environmental activity humans engage in.
- Ramez Naam
Collection: Environmental
Image of Alex Steffen
Climate change is not a discrete issue; it's a symptom of larger problems. Fundamentally, our society as currently designed has no future. We're chewing up the planet so fast, in so many different ways, that we could solve the climate problem tomorrow and still find that environmental collapse is imminent.
- Alex Steffen
Collection: Environmental
Image of David Suzuki
Beyond reducing individual use, one of our top priorities must be to move from fossil fuels to energy that has fewer detrimental effects on water supplies and fewer environmental impacts overall.
- David Suzuki
Collection: Environmental
Image of Doug McMillon
We are a retailer - we are a merchant. That is our business. But we look for places to make a positive difference. There is such a thing as a double bottom line, whether it is the wage increase or what we do with environmental sustainability to limit waste.
- Doug McMillon
Collection: Environmental
Image of Chai Jing
Environmental protection and economic development are not in conflict. Environmental protection is not a burden but a source for innovation. It can increase competition, create jobs, and lifts the economy.
- Chai Jing
Collection: Environmental
Image of Godfrey Reggio
So to hope to be able to have peace, to be able to have justice and environmental balance, are consequences of our behavior, not just our intentions.
- Godfrey Reggio
Collection: Environmental
Image of Ben Peek
I'd like to avoid the environmental apocalypse if I could. Zombies, robots - I don't know - I'd probably do alright hidden in the middle of the herd and sacrificing people to keep myself alive, but where you gonna hide when all the food is gone?
- Ben Peek
Collection: Environmental
Image of Paul Hawken
The responses that environmentalists evoke - fear, anxiety, numbness, despair - are not helpful, even if they are understandable. It should be fascinating, even enthralling, to be in the milieu of environmental change.
- Paul Hawken
Collection: Environmental
Image of Radhanath Swami
Religious and spiritual leaders should be held accountable for environmental activism, not only because they have access to large communities and can influence votes, but because service is integral to religious and spiritual life.
- Radhanath Swami
Collection: Environmental
Image of Sherwood Boehlert
Let me start by emphasizing that I am open to efforts to expedite environmental procedures for true emergencies or in other clear cases where current laws are needlessly burdensome.
- Sherwood Boehlert
Collection: Environmental
Image of Walter Cronkite
We the people have the strength to bring our country from our weak-kneed stumbling gait in the last ranks of reason to the leadership of the great march to environmental victory.
- Walter Cronkite
Collection: Environmental
Image of Andrew Solomon
I started traveling out of curiosity, but I have come to believe in travel's political importance, that encouraging a nation's citizenry to travel may be as important as encouraging school attendance, environmental conservation, or national thrift. You cannot understand the otherness of places you have not encountered.
- Andrew Solomon
Collection: Environmental
Image of Jeff Goodell
Have we failed to slow global warming pollution in part because climate and environmental activists have been too polite and well behaved?
- Jeff Goodell
Collection: Environmental
Image of Klaus Schwab
Environmental pollution, terrorism, and many other global threats do not stop at borders. We all bear global responsibility and thus need a global identity to enable us to cope with them. We must learn to integrate different levels of identity in ourselves. What matters is not either/or, but both/and.
- Klaus Schwab
Collection: Environmental
Image of Issey Miyake
I feel it is urgently necessary to train people who are capable of tackling the various problems we face today in regards to environmental turmoil and the relevancy of clothing.
- Issey Miyake
Collection: Environmental
Image of Markwayne Mullin
Without question, I'm not a fan of the EPA. The EPA has overstepped their boundaries each and every day. They get into areas they shouldn't be involved in... the states have the right to regulate themselves if they have the ability to do so - and we do because we have the Department of Environmental Quality.
- Markwayne Mullin
Collection: Environmental
Image of Susan Burton
We know that the environment and political information is important, and we expose and teach the women about some of the environmental factors that lead to their incarceration.
- Susan Burton
Collection: Environmental
Image of Keith Ellison
Environmental spending creates jobs in engineering, manufacturing, construction, materials, operations and maintenance.
- Keith Ellison
Collection: Environmental
Image of Ramez Naam
Threats that could wipe out the bulk of life on earth abound. Planetary catastrophe could come in the form of a killer asteroid impact, the eruption of massive supervolcanoes, a nearby gamma ray burst that sterilizes the earth, or by human-driven environmental collapse.
- Ramez Naam
Collection: Environmental
Image of Steven Crowder
It's no secret that the environmental movement is ultimately designed to create new inroads into increased government control. All of the shots taken at emissions, the dependence on fossil fuels, and noise pollution are designed to paint those things as symptoms of a problem, with the government able to step in as the solution.
- Steven Crowder
Collection: Environmental
Image of Barry Commoner
Earth Day 1970 was irrefutable evidence that the American people understood the environmental threat and wanted action to resolve it.
- Barry Commoner
Collection: Environmental
Image of Donella Meadows
Like the other great revolutions, an environmental revolution will require sacrifices and lead to enormous gains. It, too, will change the face of the land and human institutions, hierarchies, self-definitions, cultures. It will take centuries. If it happens. There is no guarantee, of course.
- Donella Meadows
Collection: Environmental
Image of Natalie Jeremijenko
Wealth and vegetation go together, and that exacerbates environmental injustice. The poor bear the burden of degraded environments.
- Natalie Jeremijenko
Collection: Environmental
Image of Joe Kaeser
While the transition from a combustion-powered society to electrification is already underway due to market forces alone, this transition will take generations without support. But we have every incentive - environmental, economic, and yes, moral - to speed the evolution.
- Joe Kaeser
Collection: Environmental
Image of William Clay Ford, Jr.
There's a rising tide of environmental awareness and activism among consumers that's going to continue to swell in the 21st century. Smart companies will get ahead of that wave and ride it to success and prosperity. Those that don't are headed for a wipeout.
- William Clay Ford, Jr.
Collection: Environmental
Image of Jeffrey Kluger
Toxins love to get you while you're young. Lead, mercury, secondhand smoke and sundry other environmental nasties do a lot more damage when tissue is immature, vulnerable and growing than when it's mature and comparatively fixed.
- Jeffrey Kluger
Collection: Environmental