Environmentalism Quotes - Page 3

• I don't think whole populations are villainous, but Americans are just extraordinarily unaware of all kinds of things. If you live in the middle of that vast continent, with apparently everything your heart could wish for just because you were born there, then why worry? [...] If people lose knowledge, sympathy and understanding of the natural world, they're going to mistreat it and will not ask their politicians to care for it.

  David Attenborough

  Heart, Thinking, People

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• The hole in the ozone layer is a kind of skywriting. At first it seemed to spell out our continuing complacency before a witch's brew of deadly perils. But perhaps it really tells of a newfound talent to work together to protect the global environment.

  Carl Sagan

  Ozone Layer, Together, Layers

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• Recycling and speed limits are bullshit. They're like someone who quits smoking on his deathbed.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Bullshit, Smoking, Limits

  Read Mercer Schuchardt, Chuck Palahniuk (2008). “You do not talk about Fight Club: I am Jack's completely unauthorized essay collection”, Benbella Books

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• To only responsible choice I can make is to be love and happiness." Vincellent "Love the world as you love yourself".Lao Tze "The next step in mans evolution will be the survival of the wisest.

  Deepak Chopra

  Spiritual, Love Yourself, Choices

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• As for environmentalism, I'm only an environmentalist by accident. I live in New York, so I bike, and the closest grocery store to me sells organic produce. I also shop with a book bag because I ride a bike, and it's hard to carry the paper or plastic bags.

  Jesse Eisenberg

  New York, Book, Bags

  "Venice star Jesse Eisenberg on fame, film and politics". Interview with Jon Frosch, www.france24.com. September 1, 2013.

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• Global warming is not a threat. But environmentalism's response to it is....Even if global warming is a fact, the free citizens of an industrial civilization will have no great difficulty in coping with it-that is, of course, if their ability to use energy and to produce is not crippled by the environmental movement and by government controls otherwise inspired.

  George Reisman

  Government, Civilization, Environmental

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• Climate science has been targeted by a major political movement, environmentalism, as the focus of their efforts, wherein the natural disasters of the earth system, have come to be identified with man's activities - engendering fear as well as an agenda for societal reform and control... This greatly facilitates any conscious effort to politicize science via influence in such bodies where a handful of individuals (often not even scientists) speak on behalf of organizations that include thousands of scientists, and even enforce specific scientific positions and agendas.

  Richard Lindzen

  Men, Organization, Focus

  "Climate Science: Is it currently designed to answer questions?". Richard Lindzen's remarks for Program in Atmospheres, Oceans and Climate at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, arxiv.org. September 19, 2008.

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• Grassroots groups challenge the "business-as-usual" environmentalism that is generally practiced by the more privileged wildlife-and conservation-oriented groups. The focus of activists of color and their constituents reflects their life experiences of social, economic, and political disenfranchisement.

  Robert D Bullard

  Color, Racism, Focus

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• The first law of ecology is that everything is related to everything else.---->I dont believe in environmentalism as the solution to anything. What I believe is that environmentalism illuminates the things that need to be done to solve all of the problems together.

  Barry Commoner

  Believe, Law, Together

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• Global warming, indeed much of environmentalism, has become a new religion. Like the old religions, environmentalism preaches much good sense, is well meaning, but has a worrying lack of logic at its core.

  Michael Hanlon

  Worry, Logic, Global Warming

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• This book was written using 100% recycled words.

  Terry Pratchett

  Book, Recycled, Written

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• . . . the wellspring for the passion that drove public speech and action in behalf of the environment was in large part religious and ethical. Environmentalism, in short, had become one version of nature religion in the lingering shadow of American transcendentalism.

  Catherine L. Albanese

  Religious, Passion, Shadow

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• Passion is lifted from the earth itself by the muddy hands of the young; it travels along grass-stained sleeves to the heart. If we are going to save environmentalism and the environment, we must also save an endangered indicator species: the child in nature.

  Richard Louv

  Nature, Children, Passion

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• There are insistent calls for autonomy, appeals for a new resource ethic based on the tradition of the commons, demands for the reinstatement of cultural primacy over corporate hegemony, and a rising demand for radical transparency in politics and corporate decision making. It has been said that environmentalism failed as a movement, or worse yet, died. It is the other way around. Everyone on earth will be an environmentalist in the not too distant future, driven there by necessity and experience.

  Paul Hawken

  Decision, Hegemony, Rising

  Paul Hawken (2007). “Blessed Unrest: How the Largest Social Movement in History Is Restoring Grace, Justice, and Beau ty to the World”, p.234, Penguin

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• Ecology is often confused with environmentalism, while in fact, environmentalism often leaves out the fact that people, too, can be a legitimate part of an ecosystem.

  Frank Herbert

  Funny, Confused, Animal

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• Good environmentalism is good economics

  Barber Conable

  Business, Management, Economics

  Barber B. Conable (1991). “The Conable years at the World Bank: major policy addresses of Barber B. Conable, 1986-91”

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• You know, people have tried to make out there is a split between environmentalism and labor over the years. And if that was ever true, it becomes less so all the time.

  Donald Trump

  People, Labor

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Truly environmentalism has displaced economics as the dismal science.

  Steven F. Hayward

  Economics

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• Environmentalism needs to be absolutely based in objective and verifiable science, it needs to be rational, and it needs to be flexible. And it needs to be apolitical. To mix environmental concerns with the frantic fantasies that people have about one political party or another is to miss the cold truth - that there is very little difference between the parties, except a difference in pandering rhetoric.

  Michael Crichton

  Party, Differences, People

  Remarks to the Commonwealth Club, San Francisco, www.cs.cmu.edu. September 15, 2003.

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• My environmentalism reared its head around the age of ten when I inexplicably become obsessed with littering. For some reason I considered it my personal responsibility to pick up litter wherever I found it and yell at anyone I saw contributing to the problem (much to the horror of my mother). I was a ten-year-old on a mission to clean up the streets! But it was years later when I became a mother myself that concern for my kids' future really ignited my passion and set me on my course. Once I started reading and educating myself, there was no turning back.

  Laurie David

  Mother, Reading, Kids

  Source: www.goodhousekeeping.com

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• We cannot fulfill that purpose [environmentalism] if we are heaping contempt on God's creation.

  Joe Lieberman

  Scary, God's Creation, Purpose

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• I think an erotics of place may be one of the reasons why environmentalists are seen as subversive. There is a backlash now:... [ellipsis in source] take all the regulations away; weaken existing legislation; the endangered species act is too severe, too restrictive; let there be carte blanche for real-estate developers. Because if we really have to confront wildness, solitude, and serenity, both the fierceness and compassionate nature of the land, then we ultimately have to confront it in ourselves, and it's easier to be numb, to be distracted, to be disengaged.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Nature, Real, Thinking

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• Environmentalism is a personal thing - but it's also a planetary thing. It's about making deep connections. But it's also about recognizing the very human connection between species diversification and ourselves.

  Stuart Franklin

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Under the constitution, there was never meant to be a federal police force. Even an FBI limited only to investigations was not accepted until this century. Yet today, fueled by the federal government's misdirected war on drugs, radical environmentalism, and the aggressive behavior of the nanny state, we have witnessed the massive buildup of a virtual army of armed regulators prowling the States where they have no legal authority. The sacrifice of individual responsibility and the concept of local government by the majority of American citizens has permitted the army of bureaucrats to thrive.

  Ron Paul

  War, Responsibility, Army

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• The religion and the environmentalism of the highly industrialized countries are at bottom a sham, because they make it their business to fight against something that they do not really wish to destroy. We all live by robbing nature, but our standard of living demands that the robbery shall continue. We must achieve the character and acquire the skills to live much poorer than we do.

  Wendell Berry

  Country, Character, Fighting

  Wendell Berry (2010). “What Are People For?: Essays”, p.201, Counterpoint

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