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Environmental Quotes


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

Our world faces a true planetary emergency. I know the phrase sounds shrill, and I know it's a challenge to the moral imagination.

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

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

Population, when unchecked, goes on doubling itself every 25 years or increases in a geometrical ratio.

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

Scientists worldwide agree that the reduction needed to stabilize the climate is actually more like 80 percent.

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.

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.

The environment is everything that isn't me.

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

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

The only way forward, if we are going to improve the quality of the environment, is to get everybody involved.

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

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

Unless we keep this planet healthy, everything else is for naught.

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.

We assume that everything's becoming more efficient, and in an immediate sense that's true; our lives are better in many ways. But that improvement has been gained through a massively inefficient use of natural resources.

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

We must return to nature and nature's god.