Environmental Quotes - Page 4

All is connected ... no one thing can change by itself.

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

But reducing harmful emissions, abating our dependence on foreign oil and developing alternative renewable energy sources have benefits that go beyond environmental health, they improve personal health, enhance national security and encourage our nations economic viability.

Environmentalists have a very conflicted relationship with their cars.

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

Energy Policy will be and should be driven by environmental policy in the future.

Dear future generations: Please accept our apologies. We were rolling drunk on petroleum.

Economic advance is not the same thing as human progress.

Climate change is and will be a significant threat to our national security and in a larger sense to life on earth as we know it to be.

Where the quality of life goes down for the environment, the quality of life goes down for humans.

In America today you can murder land for private profit. You can leave the corpse for all to see, and nobody calls the cops.

Pushing production out of America to nations without our environmental standards increases global environmental risks.

Judi Bari did something that I believe is unparalleled in the history of the environmental movement. She is an Earth First! activist who took it upon herself to organize Georgia Pacific sawmill workers into the IWW…Well guess what friends, environmentalists and rank and file timber workers becoming allies is the most dangerous thing in the world to the timber industry!

There can be no question about whether we should or should not transform our society in the direction of sustainability.

If we save the planet and have a society of inequality, we wouldn't have saved much.

Even if smog were a risk to human life, we must remember that life in nature, without technology, is wholesale death.

The young generation can influence their elders and can make them understand the environmental problems that are faced by us today. The youth can make them see that our environment is deteriorating day by day.

A river, though, has so many things to say that it is hard to know what it says to each of us.

Christ wears "two shoes" in the world: scripture and nature. Both are necessary to understand the Lord, and at no stage can creation be seen as a separation of things from God.

Once destroyed, nature's beauty cannot be repurchased at any price

People will always try to stop you from doing the right thing if it is unconventional.

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.

He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation. For by him all things were created: things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or powers or rulers or authorities; all things were created by him and for him. He is before all things, and in him all things hold together.

Eventually we'll realize that if we destroy the ecosystem, we destroy ourselves.

In the eternal youth of Nature, you may renew your own.