Environment Quotes

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

"Modern technology
Owes ecology
An apology."
Alan M. Eddison

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

"I'm not an environmentalist. I'm an Earth warrior."
Darryl Cherney

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

"When we heal the earth, we heal ourselves."
David Orr

"Reduce Energy Consumption by buying efficient equipment and turning it *off* when it's not in use. This can save you money while you're helping the environment."
Donna Schwartz Mills

"While this may seem as a wonderful environment to be in, it is one that most city dwellers only have for a short summer vacation, or as a cottage retreat. It all seems so inviting that you may wish you could live in every day. But, imagine the changes you have to adapt to when this living environment is a constant 365 days a year."
Bryon Pulsifer, from Ideal Environment Means Adaptation

"The earth we abuse and the living things we kill will, in the end, take their revenge; for in exploiting their presence we are diminishing our future."
Marya Mannes

"This is the first age that's ever paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one."
Arthur C. Clarke

"Man must feel the earth to know himself and recognize his values.... God made life simple. It is man who complicates it."
Charles A. Lindbergh

"Our environmental problems originate in the hubris of imagining ourselves as the central nervous system or the brain of nature. We're not the brain, we are a cancer on nature."
Dave Foreman

"Sooner or later, wittingly or unwittingly, we must pay for every intrusion on the natural environment."
Barry Commoner

"When I think of the harm that we have done to the environment and the money we have spent on products for cleaning our home I shudder. Since our move to the country and a simple life we have been talking to our family and friends and researching cleaning products. It is alarming when you realize the chemicals put in some of these products."
Catherine Pulsifer, from Environmentally Safe Cleaning Solutions

"Avid gardeners say working a garden is the best way to control stress and worry. An added benefit is the creation of a more beautiful, restful environment."
Kathy Thompson

"Our environmental problems originate in the hubris of imagining ourselves as the central nervous system or the brain of nature. We're not the brain, we are a cancer on nature.
Dave Foreman

"As a society, we are bombarded with negative information about the environment and our resources constantly. Feeling powerless because we cannot afford to donate cash or time to a cause, we begin to feel overwhelmed by the immense environmental problems our world faces."
Lillian & Dave Brummet, from The Beginnings of the Environmental Book on Everyone's Lips

"Implementing the three R's - reduce, recycle, reuse, will help you save money and help protect the environment! And, if we protect the environment we are reducing our stress by living in a healthy world."
Catherine & Byron Pulsifer, from Recycle, Reduce, Reuse

"What can I do to celebrate Earth Day, you ask? This year, pick at least one thing from our list. You can make a difference in celebrating Earth Day and help the environment."
Catherine Pulsifer, from How To Celebrate Earth Day

"So, practice recycle, reuse, and reduce when it comes to your ink print cartridge and help our environment either by refilling your empty container, or by donating your empty cartridge. Doing this one thing can help our environment, and together we can all make a difference!"
Catherine Pulsifer, from Millions of Ink Cartridges in Landfill Sites!

"Take action on climate change. Use less energy, save money, improve air quality and protect our environment."
The One-Tonne Challenge

"All of these things may seem small, but the savings do add up! And, in addition, we are helping the environment by reducing our electricity consumption!"
Catherine Pulsifer, from The Dreaded Electricity Bill

"Living simply has resulted in us becoming more aware of the environment and the impact we have on it."
Catherine Pulsifer, from A Frugality Lifestyle

"Lemon Juice, a product found in most of our homes and one which is friendly to our environment."
Catherine Pulsifer, from Simplicity, Cleaning Solution

"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."
Edward O. Wilson

"Strict economy in the use of natural resources has not been practiced, but it must be henceforth unless we are immoral enough to impair conditions in which our children are to live."
Daniel Burnham

"Environments are not just containers, but are processes that change the content totally."
Marshall McLuhan

"It isn't pollution that's harming the environment. It's the impurities in our air and water that are doing it."
Dan Quayle

"The difference between animals and humans is that animals change themselves for the environment, but humans change the environment for themselves."
Ayn Rand

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

"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

"We generate our own environment. We get exactly what we deserve. How can we resent a life we've created ourselves? Who's to blame, who's to credit but us? Who can change it, anytime we wish, but us?"
Richard Bach

"It seems to me that we all look at Nature too much, and live with her too little."
Oscar Wilde

"We have modified our environment so radically that we must now modify ourselves to exist in this new environment."
Norbert Wiener

"The struggle to save the global environment is in one way much more difficult than the struggle to vanquish Hitler, for this time the war is with ourselves. We are the enemy, just as we have only ourselves as allies. In a war such as this, then, what is victory and how will we recognize it?"
Al Gore

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