Environmental Quotes

"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has."

"Sooner or later, we will have to recognise that the Earth has rights, too, to live without pollution. What mankind must know is that human beings cannot live without Mother Earth, but the planet can live without humans."

"We're running the most dangerous experiment in history right now, which is to see how much carbon dioxide the atmosphere... can handle before there is an environmental catastrophe."

"The Earth does not belong to us: we belong to the Earth."

"The future will either be green or not at all."

"The environment is everything that isn't me."

"We have enslaved the rest of the animal creation, and have treated our distant cousins in fur and feathers so badly that beyond doubt, if they were able to formulate a religion, they would depict the Devil in human form."

"Climate change is happening, humans are causing it, and I think this is perhaps the most serious environmental issue facing us."

"We could have saved the Earth but we were too damned cheap."

"They claim this mother of ours, the Earth, for their own use, and fence their neighbors away from her, and deface her with their buildings and their refuse."

"The only way forward, if we are going to improve the quality of the environment, is to get everybody involved."

"Keep close to Nature's heart... and break clear away, once in awhile, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean."

"Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth."

"Harmony with land is like harmony with a friend; you cannot cherish his right hand and chop off his left."

"Our world faces a true planetary emergency. I know the phrase sounds shrill, and I know it's a challenge to the moral imagination."

"If all mankind were to disappear, the world would regenerate back to the rich state of equilibrium that existed ten thousand years ago. If insects were to vanish, the environment would collapse into chaos."

"The time is right for electric cars - in fact the time is critical."

"We may achieve climate, but weather is thrust upon us."

"You cannot achieve environmental security and human development without addressing the basic issues of health and nutrition."

"Water and air, the two essential fluids on which all life depends, have become global garbage cans."

"Plans to protect air and water, wilderness and wildlife are in fact plans to protect man."

"Environmental pollution is an incurable disease. It can only be prevented."

"Climate change is a terrible problem, and it absolutely needs to be solved. It deserves to be a huge priority."

"It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment."

"Try to leave the Earth a better place than when you arrived."

"No one is an environmentalist by birth. It is only your path, your life, your travels that awaken you."

"If you can't be in awe of Mother Nature, there's something wrong with you."

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

"Energy conservation is the foundation of energy independence."

"We are aware only of the empty space in the forest, which only yesterday was filled with trees."