Kutipan (Quote) - Environmental (1)

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

God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fools.
John Muir

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.
John Muir

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

The environment is everything that isn't me.
Albert Einstein

Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.
Henry David Thoreau

When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.
John Muir

Conservation is a state of harmony between men and land.
Aldo Leopold

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

I see humanity now as one vast plant, needing for its highest fulfillment only love, the natural blessings of the great outdoors, and intelligent crossing and selection.
Luther Burbank

Birds are indicators of the environment. If they are in trouble, we know we'll soon be in trouble.
Roger Tory Peterson

We must return to nature and nature's god.
Luther Burbank

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

By polluting clear water with slime you will never find good drinking water.
Aeschylus

I did not become a vegetarian for my health, I did it for the health of the chickens.
Isaac Bashevis Singer

We won't have a society if we destroy the environment.
Margaret Mead

I think the environment should be put in the category of our national security. Defense of our resources is just as important as defense abroad. Otherwise what is there to defend?
Robert Redford

Environmental degradation, overpopulation, refugees, narcotics, terrorism, world crime movements, and organized crime are worldwide problems that don't stop at a nation's borders.
Warren Christopher

If we gave up eating beef we would have roughly 20 to 30 times more land for food than we have now.
James Lovelock

You will die but the carbon will not; its career does not end with you. It will return to the soil, and there a plant may take it up again in time, sending it once more on a cycle of plant and animal life.
Jacob Bronowski

After all, sustainability means running the global environment - Earth Inc. - like a corporation: with depreciation, amortization and maintenance accounts. In other words, keeping the asset whole, rather than undermining your natural capital.
Maurice Strong

If we do not permit the earth to produce beauty and joy, it will in the end not produce food, either.
Joseph Wood Krutch

If people destroy something replaceable made by mankind, they are called vandals; if they destroy something irreplaceable made by God, they are called developers.
Joseph Wood Krutch

I don't think we're going to save anything if we go around talking about saving plants and animals only; we've got to translate that into what's in it for us.
Jim Fowler

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.
Sitting Bull

People blame their environment. There is only one person to blame - and only one - themselves.
Robert Collier

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

Take a course in good water and air; and in the eternal youth of Nature you may renew your own. Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you.
John Muir

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

I think Captain Cousteau might be the father of the environmental movement.
Ted Turner

I can find God in nature, in animals, in birds and the environment.
Pat Buckley

Why are ecologists and environmentalists so feared and hated? This is because in part what they have to say is new to the general public, and the new is always alarming.
Garrett Hardin

There is no place where we can safely store worn-out reactors or their garbage. No place!
David R. Brower

It seems that every time mankind is given a lot of energy, we go out and wreck something with it.
David R. Brower

It is absolutely imperative that we protect, preserve and pass on this genetic heritage for man and every other living thing in as good a condition as we received it.
David R. Brower

I think the cost of energy will come down when we make this transition to renewable energy.
Al Gore

Environmental concern is now firmly embedded in public life: in education, medicine and law; in journalism, literature and art.
Barry Commoner

Journey with me to a true commitment to our environment. Journey with me to the serenity of leaving to our children a planet in equilibrium.
Paul Tsongas

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

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