Environmental Quotes - Page 2

Future generations are not going to ask us what political party were you in. They are going to ask what did you do about it, when you knew the glaciers were melting.

If humans are to fully attain their destinies, so far as earthly development permits this; if they are to become truly whole, unbroken units, they must feel and know themselves to be one, not only with God and humanity, but also with nature.

The whole earth is a living icon of the face of God.

Population growth is the primary source of environmental damage.

Casein [the main protein found in dairy], in fact, is the most 'relevant' chemical carcinogen ever identified; its cancer-producin g effects occur in animals at consumption levels close to normal-striking ly unlike cancer-causing environmental chemicals that are fed to lab animals at a few hundred or even a few thousand times their normal levels of consumption.

Nobody on this planet is going to be untouched by the impacts of climate change.

But one must say clearly that we redistribute de facto the world's wealth by climate policy...One has to free oneself from the illusion that international climate policy is environmental policy any more.

Quite frankly, there is no answer to climate change without substantially, dramatically, increasing the amount of renewable energy in the global energy system.

People in Slow Food understand that food is an environmental issue.

We're terrible animals. I think that the Earth's immune system is trying to get rid of us, as well it should.

It is our collective and individual responsibility to preserve and tend to the environment in which we all live.

Loads of chemicals and hazardous wastes have been introduced into the atmosphere that didn't even exist in 1948. The environmental condition of the planet is far worse than it was 42 years ago.

I consider myself to have been the bridge between the shotgun and the binoculars in bird watching. Before I came along, the primary way to observe birds was to shoot them and stuff them.

Climate change policy is about how we redistribute de facto the world’s wealth.

In the real world there is no nature vs. nurture argument, only an infinitely complex and moment-by-moment interaction between genetic and environmental effects

By polluting clear water with slime you will never find good drinking water.

The universe is a communion of subjects, not a collection of objects.

The bulldozer and not the atomic bomb may turn out to be the most destructive invention of the 20th century.

The health of our waters is the principle measure of how we live on the land.

Factory farming is one of the biggest contributors to the most serious environmental problems. The meat industry causes more greenhouse gas emissions than all the cars, trucks, planes and ships in the world.

In nature there is no such thing as waste. In nature nothing is wasted; everything is recycled.

I think the environmental impact of this disaster is likely to have been very, very modest.

More and more companies are reaching out to their suppliers and contractors to work jointly on issues of sustainability, environmental responsibility, ethics, and compliance.

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

Everything we personally own that’s made, sold, shipped, stored, cleaned, and ultimately thrown away does some environmental harm every step of the way, harm that we’re either directly responsible for or is done on our behalf.