Environmental Quotes - Page 3

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

There must be a reason why some people can afford to live well. They must have worked for it. I only feel angry when I see waste. When I see people throwing away things we could use.

There is something about dolphins. It is difficult to put into words.

The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand the exponential function.

A small grove massacred to the last ash, An oak with heart-rot, give away the show: This great society is going to smash; They cannot fool us with how fast they go, How much they cost each other and the gods. A culture is no better than its woods.

Why would anyone believe it is possible to lay down such barrage of poisons on the surface of the earth without making it unfit for all life? They should not be called insecticides, but biocides.

The environmental crisis is fundamentally a spiritual crisis.

We must strive to become good ancestors.

I really wonder what gives us the right to wreck this poor planet of ours.

They kill good trees to put out bad newspapers.

Hopelessly uneconomic on any substantial scale, since it requires a conventional power back-up for when the wind stops blowing, forests of wind turbines are rightly regarded in most countries as an environmental monstrosity.

There must be more to life than having everything.

While the rich reap most of the benefits of technological development, the poor bear an unequal burden of dealing with the consequences of the resulting increased pollution. The poor continue to live in greatest proximity to the sources of pollution, the infrastructure and machinery of industry. They work in the most polluted and physically dangerous workplaces. And these same individuals, living and working closest to the sources of environmental catastrophe, are also the ones most lacking decent health care.

I stress that I am not attacking Friends of the Earth, Greenpeace, and the environmental movement in general. They have done some good work overall. I am merely pointing out that they can, and are, used to promote the New World Order, mostly (though certainly not in every case), without their knowledge.

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

In Kenya women are the first victims of environmental degradation, because they are the ones who walk for hours looking for water, who fetch firewood, who provide food for their families.

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

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

This planet might be able to support perhaps as many as half a billion people who could live a sustainable life in relative comfort. Human populations must be greatly diminished, and as quickly as possible to limit further environmental damage.

Waste not the smallest thing created, for grains of sand make mountains, and atomies infinity.

If I live to be old enough, I may sit down under some bush, the last left in the utilitarian world, and feel thankful that intellect in its march has spared one vestige of the ancient forest for me to die by.

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

We do not face a choice between protecting our environment or protecting our economy. We face a choice between protecting our economy by protecting our environment - or allowing environmental havoc to create economic havoc.

Society is defined not only by what it creates, but by what it refuses to destroy.

Advertising is an environmental striptease for a world of abundance.