Environmental Quotes

The modern assault on the environment began about 50 years ago, during and immediately after World War II.
Barry Commoner

War, After, Modern

Earth Day 1970 was irrefutable evidence that the American people understood the environmental threat and wanted action to resolve it.
Barry Commoner

Wanted, American, Action

If we bestow but a very little attention to the economy of the animal creation, we shall find manifest examples of premeditation, perseverance, resolution, and consumate artifice, in order to effect their purpose.
William Bartram

Find, Purpose, Attention

If you violate Nature's laws you are your own prosecuting attorney, judge, jury, and hangman.
Luther Burbank

Nature, Judge, Laws

For me, going vegan was an ethical and environmental decision. I'm doing the right thing by the animals.
Alexandra Paul

Decision, Ethical, Vegan

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

Food, Understand, Issue

We are now heading down a centuries-long path toward increasing the productivity of our natural capital - the resource systems upon which we depend to live - instead of our human capital.
Paul Hawken

Live, Human, Down

A knowledgeable and courageous U.S. president could help enormously in leading the world's nations toward saving the climate.
Donella Meadows

Help, President, Courageous

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.
Roger Tory Peterson

Before, Between, Stuff

The Endangered Species Act is the strongest and most effective tool we have to repair the environmental harm that is causing a species to decline.
Norm Dicks

Act, Effective, Harm

Under the Environmental Protection Agency's Energy Star Program, homes are independently verified to be measurably more energy efficient than average houses.
Melissa Bean

Energy, Star, Protection

Maintaining healthy forests is essential to those who make a living from the land and for those of us who use them for recreational purposes.
Cathy McMorris

Living, Healthy, Land

Nuclear power will help provide the electricity that our growing economy needs without increasing emissions. This is truly an environmentally responsible source of energy.
Michael Burgess

Power, Help, Energy

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

Learned, Growth, Hand

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

Business, Today, Longer

The government should set a goal for a clean environment but not mandate how that goal should be implemented.
Dixie Lee Ray

Government, Goal, Clean

Mankind is considered (by the radical environmentalists) the lowest and the meanest of all species and is blamed for everything.
Dixie Lee Ray

Everything, Mankind, Radical

Local innovation and initiative can help us better understand how to protect our environment.
Gale Norton

Help, Understand, Innovation

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

Government, Why, Protect

Liberals in Congress have spent the past three decades pandering to environmental extremists. The policies they have put in place are in large part responsible for the energy crunch we are seeing today. We have not built a refinery in this country for 30 years.
Marsha Blackburn

Today, Past, Country

We don't have to sacrifice a strong economy for a healthy environment.
Dennis Weaver

Strong, Sacrifice, Healthy

Within 10 years it will be impossible to travel to the North Pole by dog team. There will be too much open water.
Will Steger

Travel, Impossible, Team

Industry is fortune's right hand, and frugality its left.
John Ray

Left, Hand, Industry

Much of the debate over global warming is predicated on fear, rather than science.
James Inhofe

Fear, Science, Rather

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

America, Nations, Production

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