Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carl Jung

Our intellect has created a new world that dominates nature, and has populated it with monstrous machines.

Bertrand Russell

I never held Negroes to be inherently inferior. The statement in Marriage and Morals refers to environmental conditioning. I have had it withdrawn from subsequent editions because it is clearly ambiguous.

Bob Brown

The future will either be green or not at all.

John O'Neill

We are honored to have been selected to participate in this important project. We view this opportunity as an endorsement of our proven environmental management practices at our facility.

John Key

New Zealand needs to balance its environmental responsibilities with its economic opportunities, because the risk is that if you don't do that - and you want to lead the world - then you might end up getting unintended consequences.

Edward Norton

The "environmental movement" is becoming an economic movement, is joining the social justice movement, is becoming a sustainability movement. It's leaving behind the "People's Needs versus Nature's Needs" conflict in favor of making the case for environmental health as the essential underpinning of prosperous and stable human civilization.

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.

Ban Ki-moon

Since problems spill across borders, security anywhere depends on sustainable development everywhere.

Derrick Jensen

We have been too kind to those who are killing the planet. We have been inexcusably, unforgivably, insanely kind.

Derrick Jensen

The global industrial economy is the engine for massive environmental degradation and massive human (and nonhuman) impoverishment.

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

Humans react to danger when it is immediate, immoral, visible... Global warming does not press any of those buttons.

Dennis Kucinich

If you drill, there's going to be a spill. It's axiomatic.

Eberhard Arnold

Whoever is gripped by God's spirit turns to his creation with all the interest that comes from God's love.

Mike Love

One of the most important lessons we can glean from the environmental movement is to 'think globally and act locally.'

Alex Steffen

The planet's biggest problems have to do with sustainability, environmental decline, global poverty, disease, conflict and so forth. Really, they're all interconnected - it's one big problem, which is that the way we're doing things can't go on.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

On our crowded planet there are no longer any internal affairs!

Ali Smith

It's about the connecting force from form to form. It's the toe bone connecting to the shoulder bone. It's the bacterial kick of life force, something growing out of nothing, forming itself out of something else. Form never stops. And form is always environmental.

Noam Chomsky

Congressional Republicans are dismantling the limited environmental protections initiated by Richard Nixon, who would be something of a dangerous radical in today's political scene.

This Nation has realized significant environmental improvements over the last three decades.

Environmental scientists in Canada said it was impossible for me to get to the Pole in 2004... I said 'no,' it's still OK, and I can still get there, and I did.

Tristram Stuart

It is all very well for 2% of the population to live in a monastic state of meatlessness while everyone else gorges their way towards environmental meltdown or the nearest heart clinic. Vegetarianism is good for the willing minority, but not much use as a campaign tool.

Chris Stewart

There is no better example of the overreach of government than in environmental law.

Marlee Matlin

The Earth does not belong to us: we belong to the Earth.

Dick Cheney

Conservation may be a sign of personal virtue, but it is not a sufficient basis for a sound, comprehensive energy policy.

G. Gordon Liddy

Environmentalism is a form of pagan fundamentalism. These green wackos are fanatics like al-Quaida. Just like them.

Ed Rendell

There are a tremendous amount of environmental issues that are on the table.

Holly Robinson Peete

I'm not a doctor or scientist. I'm just a mom. But I do think there's a genetic predisposition, and there are environmental triggers. I feel like that combination, in my child's case, is what resulted in autism.

Katie Lee

My message is: Never, never give up on environmental issues. Keep pounding at the door.

I thought the prisoners wouldn't want to sort through the rubbish. But they were happy to do it because of the environmental benefits.

I am I plus my surroundings and if I do not preserve the latter, I do not preserve myself.

Woody Harrelson

Bur I think all the environmental groups have to focus on at least one main issue together. That's the move we need to do right now.

Alice Waters

Eating is an environmental act.