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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
Socialism failed because it couldn't tell the economic truth. Capitalism may fail because it couldn't tell the ecological truth.
— Lester R. Brown
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
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
We are aware only of the empty space in the forest, which only yesterday was filled with trees.
— Anna Freud
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
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
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
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
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
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We ignore slow environmental changes unless they are crisis-driven, such as hurricanes in Florida.
— Natalie Jeremijenko
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
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
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— Nicholson Baker
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
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
Every man ought to plant a tree.
— Lailah Gifty Akita