Environmental Quotes - Page 8

• In a few decades, the relationship between the environment, resources and conflict may seem almost as obvious as the connection we see today between human rights, democracy and peace.

  Wangari Maathai

  Future, Rights, Vision

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

  Bill Gates

  Priorities, Needs, Climate

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• Architects in the past have tended to concentrate their attention on the building as a static object. I believe dynamics are more important: the dynamics of people, their interaction with spaces and environmental condition.

  John C. Portman, Jr.

  Believe, Past, Space

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• The collegiate idealists who fill the ranks of the environmental movement seem willing to do absolutely anything to save the biosphere, except take science courses and learn something about it.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Fun, College, Earth Day

  "Parliament of Whores". Book by P. J. O'Rourke, 1991.

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• An environment-based education movement--at all levels of education--will help students realize that school isn't supposed to be a polite form of incarceration, but a portal to the wider world.

  Richard Louv

  Nature, School, Parent

  Richard Louv (2013). “Last Child in the Woods: Saving our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder”, p.176, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Since we humans have the better brain, isn't it our responsibility to protect our fellow creatures from, oddly enough, ourselves?

  Joy Adamson

  Responsibility, Animal, Brain

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• An understanding of the natural world and what's in it is a source of not only a great curiosity but great fulfillment...

  David Attenborough

  Nature, Earth Day, Understanding

  "The Sum of You: Teach Yourself" by Alan Graham, Hachette UK, (p. 13), October 29, 2010.

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• There are no passengers on spaceship earth. We are all crew.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Motivational, Nature, Animal

  "Paradigms Lost: Learning from Environmental Mistakes, Mishaps and Misdeeds" by Daniel A. Vallero, (p. 367), 2005.

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• Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end by destroying the earth.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Nature, Men, Society

  Albert Schweitzer (1984). “The Words of Albert Schweitzer”

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• The idea of wilderness needs no defense, it only needs defenders.

  Edward Abbey

  Ideas, Needs, Defense

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• Our personal consumer choices have ecological, social, and spiritual consequences. It is time to re-examine some of our deeply held notions that underlie our lifestyles.

  David Suzuki

  God, Spiritual, Time

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• The nation behaves well if it treats the natural resources as assets which it must turn over to the next generation increased; and not impaired in value.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Science, History, Tree

  Theodore Roosevelt (2015). “Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century”, p.47, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• If we want children to flourish, to become truly empowered, then let us allow them to love the earth before we ask them to save it. Perhaps this is what Thoreau had in mind when he said, “the more slowly trees grow at first, the sounder they are at the core, and I think the same is true of human beings.

  David Sobel

  Love, Inspirational, Children

  "Fighting Climate Change Through ‘Nature Connectedness’" by Nancy Shulins, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 25, 2014.

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

  Dalai Lama

  Inspirational, Responsibility, Individual

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• To put your hands in a river is to feel the chords that bind the earth together.

  Barry Lopez

  Nature, Hands, Rivers

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• The air, the water and the ground are free gifts to man and no one has the power to portion them out in parcels. Man must drink and breathe and walk and therefore each man has a right to his share of each.

  James F. Cooper

  Men, Air, Free Gifts

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• We have been too kind to those who are killing the planet. We have been inexcusably, unforgivably, insanely kind.

  Derrick Jensen

  Kind, Killing, Planets

  Derrick Jensen (2012). “The Derrick Jensen Reader: Writings on Environmental Revolution”, p.198, Seven Stories Press

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• When we realize we can make a buck cleaning up the environment, it will be done!

  Dennis Weaver

  Done, Bucks, Cleaning

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• The insufferable arrogance of human beings to think that Nature was made solely for their benefit, as if it was conceivable that the sun had been set afire merely to ripen men's apples and head their cabbages.

  Cyrano de Bergerac

  Nature, Thinking, Men

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• The solution of present-day problems lie in the re-establishment of a harmonious relationship between man and nature. To keep this relationship permanent we will have to digest the definition of real development: development is synonymous with culture. When we sublimate nature in a way that we achieve peace, happiness, prosperity and, ultimately, fulfilment along with satisfying our basic needs, we march towards culture.

  Sunderlal Bahuguna

  Relationship, Happiness, Peace

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• Every time I have some moment on a seashore, or in the mountains, or sometimes in a quiet forest, I think this is why the environment has to be preserved.

  Bill Bradley

  Inspirational, Motivational, Thinking

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• The most alarming of all man's assaults upon the environment is the contamination of air, earth, rivers, and sea with dangerous and even lethal materials.

  Rachel Carson

  Men, Rivers, Air

  Rachel Carson (2002). “Silent Spring”, p.6, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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

  Ottmar Edenhofer

  Change, Climate, World

  "Climate Talks or Wealth Redistribution Talks?" by Nicolas Loris, www.dailysignal.com. November 19, 2010.

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• You think OWS is radical? You think 350.org was radical for helping organize mass civil disobedience in D.C. in August against the Keystone Pipeline? We're not radical. Radicals work for oil companies. The CEO of Exxon gets up every morning and goes to work changing the chemical composition of the atmosphere. No one has ever done anything as radical as that, not in all of human history.

  Bill McKibben

  Change, Morning, Work

  "The Most Important News Story of the Day/Millennium" by Bill McKibben, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 5, 2011.

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• Self-centeredness will bring on the destruction of our world. National pride separates people. All people need the same thing. When you really get down to it, you'll find that all people need good food, clean water, clean air, and a decent environment, meaning education as to how to relate to one another and to avoid conflict, how to accept the differences where different people draw different conclusions.

  Jacque Fresco

  Education, Food, Pride

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