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All our environmental problems become easier to solve with fewer people and harder - and ultimately impossible to solve - with ever more people. — David Attenborough

Once government's objectives were economic growth and social cohesion. Now they are prosperity, fairness and environmental care — Gordon Brown

Our planet has not seen an extinction crisis as serious as the one in progress for 65 million years. — David Suzuki

Healthy ecosystems promote healthy life. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Over and over, we hear politicians say they can't spend our tax dollars on environmental protection when the economy is so fragile. — David Suzuki

If you stand for great service, low prices, superb quality, stylish design and environmental friendliness, you actually stand for nothing. — Josh Linkner

Socialism failed because it couldn't tell the economic truth. Capitalism may fail because it couldn't tell the ecological truth. — Lester R. Brown

At least if we don't close down the Environmental Protection Agency, we at least put a snaffle bit on them and ride the pony down. — Dick Armey

Like I said, I'm more worried long term about the environmental issues then the use of arms. — Hans Blix

A shift is necessary toward lifestyles less geared to environmental damaging consumption patterns. — Maurice Strong

The choices and decisions we make in terms of how we use the land ultimately affect our very DNA. Environmental issues are life issues. — Terry Tempest Williams

It appears to be a law that you cannot have a deep sympathy with both man and nature. — Henry David Thoreau

People need to be cautious because anything built by man can be destroyed by Mother Nature. — Russel Honore

Sadly, it's much easier to create a desert than a forest. — James Lovelock

It strikes me as being morally repulsive and intellectually absurd that people die of want in a world of surplus. — Bob Geldof

In today's world, it is no longer unimaginable to think that business can operate - and even thrive - in an environmentally-friendly manner. — Olympia Snowe

In America, you complain about job losses because of China, but here, we carry all of the environmental costs. — Ma Jun

Native communities are focal points for the excrement of industrial society. — Winona LaDuke

Good environmental policy is good economic policy. — Bernie Sanders

I'm planting a tree to grow with me all the days of my life. — Andrea Koehle Jones

China will soon emit more greenhouse gases than America, but its regime knows if it caps aspirations there will be a revolution. — James Lovelock

The love for God is the love to protect the environment. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Unless we keep this planet healthy, everything else is for naught. — Victoria Principal

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

If we gave up eating beef we would have roughly 20 to 30 times more land for food than we have now. — James Lovelock

All is connected ... no one thing can change by itself. — Paul Hawken

Everything we see in nature is manifested truth; only we are not able to recognize it unless truth is manifest within ourselves. — Jakob Bohme

We are aware only of the empty space in the forest, which only yesterday was filled with trees. — Anna Freud

I believe in a sound, strong environmental policy that protects the health of our people and a wise stewardship of our nation's natural resources. — Ronald Reagan

Because of the Incarnation, I salute all remaining matter with reverence. — John Of Damascus

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

We learned that economic growth and environmental protection can and should go hand in hand. — Christopher Dodd

I'm sure that many people who are involved in an environmental effort ... they will be pretty much encouraged by this recognition. — Wangari Maathai

Much of the debate over global warming is predicated on fear, rather than science. — James Inhofe

Most of what I know about environmental conservation I learned from my father, who has been a leader within the movement for over 30 years. — Edward Norton

Global food insecurity is increasing ... the slim excess of growth in food production over population is narrowing. — Lester R. Brown

Every global concern - economic, environmental or security-related - can be addressed more effectively when the U.S. and China work together. — Henry Paulson

Without the oceans there would be no life on Earth. — Peter Benchley

Climate change is happening, humans are causing it, and I think this is perhaps the most serious environmental issue facing us. — Bill Nye

In places where this beauty has already disappeared, we will reconstruct it. — Fritz Todt

We must strictly enforce the Environmental Law, closing down the polluters that fail to meet the standards. — Ma Jun

In fact, the environmental crisis is related to the crisis of aesthetics, crisis of social cohesion and the crisis of spiritual values. — Satish Kumar

In losing stewardship we lose fellowship; we become outcasts from the great neighborhood of creation. — Wendell Berry

America has not led but fled on the issue of global warming. — John F. Kerry

Earth Citizens have minds and hearts that know the Earth is the foundation of everything they do. — Ilchi Lee

A social impact bond is a new way of bringing financing into social and environmental support issues. — Judith Rodin

You completely rediscovered & relived everything to do with wildlife. — Terri Irwin

I've been a longtime supporter of all sorts of environmental groups. — John Densmore

We need a new environmental consciousness on a global basis. To do this, we need to educate people. — Mikhail Gorbachev

Global warming has already triggered a sea level rise that could reach from 6 metres (19.69 ft) to 25 metres (27.34 yards). — James Hansen

I don't see this planet being ... they're talking about how they're turning around the environmental problems here, but I think it's already too late. — Ace Frehley

My lens of choice was always the 35 mm. It was more environmental. You can't come in closer with the 35 mm. — Annie Leibovitz

You may think your actions are meaningless and that they won't help, but that is no excuse, you must still act. — Mahatma Gandhi

Nothing can ever fix nature' not even all monies in the world and money rules, are never worthy following. — Auliq Ice

DNA is not an autocrat. Animal behaviour is also influenced by environmental factors and individual quirks. — Yuval Noah Harari

Environmental justice [means that] no community should be saddled with more environmental burdens and less environmental benefits than any other. — Majora Carter

We copied laws and regulations from western countries, but enforcement remains weak, and environmental litigation is still quite near impossible. — Ma Jun

Environmental protection doesn't happen in a vacuum. You can't separate the impact on the environment from the impact on our families and communities. — Jim Clyburn

Ethanol is a premier, high performance fuel. It has tremendous environmental benefits and is a key component to energy independence for our country. — Richard Lugar

We ignore slow environmental changes unless they are crisis-driven, such as hurricanes in Florida. — Natalie Jeremijenko

There is a gyre of discarded floating plastic the size of the continental USA in the ocean. In it, plastic trash outweighs plankton 40 to 1. — David Suzuki

You are an indispensable and irreplaceable asset to the human family. — Ilchi Lee

There are no articles any more that dream about the cities of tomorrow. — Neil DeGrasse Tyson

We should restore a proper balance in environmental regulation and energy production that is based on common sense, not political agendas. — Mac Thornberry

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

When civilization stands at the edge of a cliff, a step forward doesn't make much sense. — Denis Hayes

There's something very environmental about quality. We live in such a disposable society, but real style doesn't change that much. — Elizabeth Rogers

Climate change isn't just an environmental issue; it's a technology, water, food, energy, population issue. None of this happens in a vacuum. — David Titley

In order for people to live their own lives and fulfill their destiny, they must differentiate themselves from destructive environmental influences. — Lisa Firestone

Birds are indicators of the environment. If they are in trouble, we know we'll soon be in trouble. — Roger Tory Peterson

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

environmental movement — Nicholson Baker

The reality of life is that we are exposed to a multiplicity of toxic substances. — Al Meyerhoff

Why are genetic determinants thought to be any more ineluctable, or blame-absolving, than 'environmental' ones? — Richard Dawkins

I do not know of any environmental group in any country that does not view its government as an adversary. — Gro Harlem Brundtland

An environment of infinite economic expansion is unsustainable in a world of finite resources. — Bryant McGill

I want Canada to be the country that is the best in the world at combining economic growth, social justice and environmental sustainability ... — Stephane Dion

The sun is the only safe nuclear reactor, situated as it is some ninety-three million miles away. — Stephanie Mills

The generation that destroys the environment is not the generation that pays the price. That is the problem. — Wangari Maathai

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

China is bearing the environmental cost for much of the world because China is the factory of the world. — Ma Jun

Yes, environmental problems do constrain human societies, but the societies' responses also make a difference. So, — Jared Diamond

Is that theory true which would have us believe that man is no more than a product of many conditional and environmental factors - — Viktor E. Frankl

While progress should never come to a halt, there are many places it should never come to at all. — Paul Newman

There is a muscular energy in sunlight corresponding to the spiritual energy of wind. — Annie Dillard

Advertising is an environmental striptease for a world of abundance. — Marshall McLuhan

Living in filth is dark doom. The light of awaken leads to cleanliness. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Why has it seemed that the only way to protect the environment is with heavy-handed government regulation? — Gale Norton

Without environmental sustainability, economic stability and social cohesion cannot be achieved — Phil Harding

Franklin Roosevelt was very concerned about environmental issues. — Gaylord Nelson

The only way forward, if we are going to improve the quality of the environment, is to get everybody involved. — Richard Rogers

Our stewardship of the Earth is brief. We owe it to those who follow to keep that in perspective, to be responsible passengers along the way. — George H. W. Bush

Practically every environmental problem we have can be traced to our addiction to fossil fuels, primarily oil. — Dennis Weaver

Food and the way we grow it and produce it are a major cause of environmental degradation. — Jose Andres

Environmental challenges have the power to deny equality of opportunity and hold back the progress of communities. — Lisa P. Jackson

The love of nature is the love for the Creator. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Human civilization as we know it is like the Titanic headed for the iceberg, whether the iceberg be nuclear, environmental or terrorism-related. — Marianne Williamson

We don't have to sacrifice a strong economy for a healthy environment. — Dennis Weaver

anxiety due to environmental stress is a major cause of myopia. Gottlieb — Jacob Liberman

Every man ought to plant a tree. — Lailah Gifty Akita