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I think it is far more important to save one square mile of wilderness, anywhere, by any means, than to produce another book on the subject. — Edward Abbey

A clean pond is more useful than a dirty ocean. — Matshona Dhliwayo

I'm sick of environmentalism. — Tracey Ullman

We need to ground environmentalism on something other than data. — Charles Eisenstein

Wine is a gateway drug to environmentalism. — Katherine Cole

We cannot fulfill that purpose [environmentalism] if we are heaping contempt on God's creation. — Joe Lieberman

What are we individually doing to join effects to combat climate change? — Lailah Gifty Akita

If environmentalism is a fad, it will be the last one. — Barry Commoner

Centrally planned economies are upended by out of control population. Their escape valve is eugenics. — A.E. Samaan

Part of the irony of environmentalism is questing for solutions when you know you're part of the problem. — Diane Ackerman

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

Time is what we have in this life, and how we use it determines what our life is. — Andy Couturier

All must pay the debt of nature. — Annie Proulx

One planet, one experiment. — Edward O. Wilson

Here we are, the most clever species ever to have lived. So how is it we can destroy the only planet we have? — Jane Goodall

I want to show people that environmentalism can be fun! — Adrian Grenier

I once took a poo in the woods while hunched over like an animal. It was AWESOME. — Drew Barrymore

We live in a society where those that do the greatest damage to humanity and nature reap the greatest financial rewards. — Steven Magee

The beautiful green earth. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Environmentalism has already killed somewhere between 10-30 million people since the 1970s — Michael Crichton

Peace is a conscious choice. — John Denver

If owning frivolous articles of excess were indeed the trappings of malevolence, my home was ready to play host to the Axis powers. — Michael Gurnow

I'm going to draw up a human-rights contract that says everyone on earth must agree we are here as caretakers of the planet, first and foremost. — Jenni Fagan

Environmentalism is a dangerous ideology endangering human freedom. — Vaclav Klaus

Instead of taking environmentalism away from the left, conservatives condemn it as a counsel of doom. — Christopher Lasch

Communism was replaced by the threat of ambitious environmentalism. — Vaclav Klaus

Environmentalism is not about the environment. It is about people. It is about a vision for a better life-for people. — Colin Beavan

Apocalyptic thinking happens on the left as well as on the right, and in environmentalism, that's a terrible approach to take. Because it isn't true. — Kim Stanley Robinson

My goal is to draw a line with some 'flavor' to it. — Andy Couturier

Ethical vegetarians eat only plant-based food in order to show compassion toward animals and other humans and to benefit the planet. — Sharon Gannon

We don't inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children. — David Brower

Mankind is busily manufacturing its way into extinction. — Steven Magee

There's only three things you need to do when you are finished editing your book - Sleep! Sleep! and Sleep! — A. Louise Robertson

We risk losing what nature is if we couch its value in human terms. — Richard Black

Man steps on an ant when he can't catch the fly. — Bill Gaede

Forests should not be walked on, they should be walked under and through. — Courtney M. Privett

No one will protect what they don't care about; and no one will care about what they have never experiened — David Attenborough

Did I just see you litter?'
'I'm driving a hybrid. It cancels out. — Michelle Hodkin

In looking at waste as an entirely modern, man-made idea, I stopped viewing garbage as garbage and instead slowly started to see it as a commodity. — Tom Szaky

The Holy Land is everywhere — Black Elk

What's wrong with being naked?
Zeena Schreck on AMLA to Christian Minister Jerry Johnston — Zeena Schreck

We need to be rid of the insane policy of environmentalism. No more 'green', anti-growth, anti-science environmental policy. — Kesha Rogers

Good environmentalism is good economics — Barber Conable

Truly environmentalism has displaced economics as the dismal science. — Steven F. Hayward

So many people think you have to be rich and famous to really create an impact, and it's just not true. Especially when it comes to environmentalism. — Eva Longoria

I thought I should make a place to bring light down into this world. All things that become realities start in that place of someone imagining them. — Andy Couturier

Environmentalism has failed. — David Suzuki

I've tried to approach environmentalism the same way I do my climbing: by setting small, concrete goals that build on each other. — Alex Honnold

... most of the damage we cause to the planet is the result of our own ignorance. — Yvon Chouinard

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

The obligation to endure gives us the right to know. — Jean Rostand

I finally understood that I couldn't avoid working to provide for myself, but that can also be a wonderful
thing, a beautiful thing. — Andy Couturier

Sometimes just to touch the ground is enough for me, even if not a single thing grows from what I plant. — Andy Couturier

Today humanity faces a stark choice: save the planet and ditch capitalism, or save capitalism and ditch the planet. — Fawzi Ibrahim

This book was written using 100% recycled words. — Terry Pratchett

Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth. — Henry David Thoreau

Well, sir. I look at facts. And the fact is that our world is dying and if we don't all do our best to save it, we aren't going to last much longer. — A.J. Lauer

The idea of finding value in what people are willing to pay to get rid of it one of the fundamental backbones of ecocapitalism, as I think of it now. — Tom Szaky

My wife simply quoted, 'For better or worse.' It was only then that I realized the phrase was not multiple-choice. — Michael Gurnow

The idea that humans are yet intelligent enough to serve as stewards of the Earth is among the most hubristic ever. — James E. Lovelock

We can all avoid travel that is unnecessary; we do not need to travel around the world when the source of all joy and all beauty is right within us. — Eknath Easwaran

Management of anything as complicated as a woods requires more humility than comes easily to our species, at least in its American incarnation. — Bill McKibben

Only people with full stomachs become environmentalists. — David Brin

I think all people want freedom, but they've got this idea inserted into their head about money. — Andy Couturier

Environmentalism opposes reckless innovation and makes conservation the central order of business. — Christopher Lasch

They have taken the idea of nonharming, of gentleness toward the earth, to a very radical level. Even the weeds are not enemies. — Andy Couturier

Environmentalism is a way of seeing our place within the biosphere. — David Suzuki

Nothing short of the end of the world would get our eco-conscious techies to toss their latest gadgets onto the street. — Susan Ee

Bloom where planted — Karin Boutall

Your power stations, your cars, your creature comforts. Well, you lived too long. The bill's due. Today. — David Mitchell

Why is it that so many people start to value money so much that they trade in most of the hours and years of their life in order to get it? — Andy Couturier

You know what happens when windmills collapse into the sea? A splash. — Bill Maher

That's the key to walking through the Wall.... You have to first see it as not being a Wall, even though everyone you know still sees it as a Wall. — Kevin J. Shay

There is a reason why trash bags aren't made of transparent plastic. — Colin Beavan

Recycling and speed limits are bullshit. They're like someone who quits smoking on his deathbed. — Chuck Palahniuk

I had fought on behalf of man against the sea, but I realised that it had become more urgent to fight on behalf of the sea against men. — Alain Bombard