“No one should be able to enter a wilderness by mechanical means.”
Quotes about environmental
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“In a finite world this means that the per capita share of the world's goods must steadily decrease.”
“I think Captain Cousteau might be the father of the environmental movement.”
“Harmony with land is like harmony with a friend you cannot cherish his right hand and chop off his left.”
“The only way forward, if we are going to improve the quality of the environment, is to get everybody involved.”
“When we realize we can make a buck cleaning up the environment, it will be done!”
“I can find God in nature, in animals, in birds and the environment.”
“Not all is doom and gloom. We are beginning to understand the natural world and are gaining a reverence for life - all life.”
“I think the government has to reposition environment on top of their national and international priorities.”
“Our world faces a true planetary emergency. I know the phrase sounds shrill, and I know it's a challenge to the moral imagination.”
“You may be able to fool the voters, but not the atmosphere.”
“There is no place where we can safely store worn-out reactors or their garbage. No place!”
“It seems that every time mankind is given a lot of energy, we go out and wreck something with it.”
“It is absolutely imperative that we protect, preserve and pass on this genetic heritage for man and every other living thing in as good a condition as we received it.”
“We assume that everything's becoming more efficient, and in an immediate sense that's true our lives are better in many ways. But that improvement has been gained through a massively inefficient use of natural resources.”
“Unless we keep this planet healthy, everything else is for naught.”
“Population, when unchecked, goes on doubling itself every 25 years or increases in a geometrical ratio.”
“The modern assault on the environment began about 50 years ago, during and immediately after World War II.”
“Earth Day 1970 was irrefutable evidence that the American people understood the environmental threat and wanted action to resolve it.”
“If we bestow but a very little attention to the economy of the animal creation, we shall find manifest examples of premeditation, perseverance, resolution, and consumate artifice, in order to effect their purpose.”
“If you violate Nature's laws you are your own prosecuting attorney, judge, jury, and hangman.”
“For me, going vegan was an ethical and environmental decision. I'm doing the right thing by the animals.”
“People in Slow Food understand that food is an environmental issue.”
“We are now heading down a centuries-long path toward increasing the productivity of our natural capital - the resource systems upon which we depend to live - instead of our human capital.”