Environmental Quotes

The Endangered Species Act is the strongest and most effective tool we have to repair the environmental harm that is causing a species to decline.

No one does a better, cleaner, or environmental friendlier, than the United States, when it comes to drilling for oil, gas, coal, oil refineries and fish friendly hydroelectric.

Of the 55 refineries closed in America in the last 10 years, they were all closed for economic reasons, mostly oil company mergers. Not a single one was closed for environmental purposes or objections.

I firmly believe that we can have a healthy environment and a sustainable timber industry.

I've developed a huge regard for Toyota for its environmental awareness, for its immense commitment to research and development in this field, and for its leadership in developing hybrids which others are now following.

If China is helping its domestic industries charge an artificially low price for solar panels and other environmental goods, then China is violating international trade rules that it agreed to when it became a member of the World Trade Organization.

If we do not permit the earth to produce beauty and joy, it will in the end not produce food, either.

There is no question that photography has played a major role in the environmental movement.

I decided that now is the time to start doing the things that really interest me and I find important. It was in the 10 years of the MacArthur grant that I began working on my first book... and I began putting more work into environmental history.

If people destroy something replaceable made by mankind, they are called vandals; if they destroy something irreplaceable made by God, they are called developers.

We're not trying to reinvent the wheel; for any environmental organization to claim sole responsibility for any kind of victory is insane, because everybody attacks these problems as a group.

I reflect back 35 years ago, and look how far we have come in America with our environmental policy to improve the conditions of our air and water, and we have had some real successes.

A primary function of art and thought is to liberate the individual from the tyranny of his culture in the environmental sense and to permit him to stand beyond it in an autonomy of perception and judgment.

People blame their environment. There is only one person to blame - and only one - themselves.

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

In the environmental movement, every time you lose a battle it's for good, but our victories always seem to be temporary and we keep fighting them over and over again.

If we talk about the environment, for example, we have to talk about environmental racism - about the fact that kids in South Central Los Angeles have a third of the lung capacity of kids in Santa Monica.

Population, when unchecked, goes on doubling itself every 25 years or increases in a geometrical ratio.

Within 10 years it will be impossible to travel to the North Pole by dog team. There will be too much open water.

I've always been a strong supporter of environmental protection and initiatives in that area. But I'm willing to set priorities. If we have to make reductions in one place, we'll have to-in order to increase another place, I'm willing to do that.

Environmental pollution is an incurable disease. It can only be prevented.

I have a private plane. But I fly commercial when I go to environmental conferences.

The position I took at the time was that we hadn't really examined any of the potential environmental consequences of introducing genetically modified organisms.

Raising awareness on the most pressing environmental issues of our time is more important than ever.

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.

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

I am going to confront the old-fashioned negative thinking which says that all government needs to do to generate growth is cut worker and environmental protections, cut taxes on the rich and stroke 'fat cats' until they purr with pleasure. I'm completely repudiating the idea that government has to get out of the way.

When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.

I assume we will have figured out a way to efficiently utilize solar energy and tied that to an efficient way to use nuclear energy in such a way that it doesn't pose a serious environmental issue.

Mankind is considered (by the radical environmentalists) the lowest and the meanest of all species and is blamed for everything.