78+ Best Environment Quotes: Exclusive Selection

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Famous Environment Quotes

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

Earth provides enough to satisfy every man’s needs, but not every man’s greed. Mahatma Gandhi

It appears to be a law that you cannot have a deep sympathy with both man and nature. Henry David Thoreau

We need the tonic of wildness. At the same time that we are earnest to explore and learn all things, we require that all things be mysterious and unexplorable, that land and sea be indefinitely wild, unsurveyed and unfathomed by us because unfathomable. We can never have enough of nature. Henry David Thoreau

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

I am glad I will not be young in a future without wilderness. Aldo Leopold

Climate change is happening, humans are causing it, and I think this is perhaps the most serious environmental issue facing us. Bill Nye

The poetry of the earth is never dead. John Keats

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

What we are doing to the forests of the world is but a mirror reflection of what we are doing to ourselves and to one another. Chris Maser

If you can’t be in awe of Mother Nature, there’s something wrong with you. Alex Trebek

Once there were brook trout in the streams in the mountains. You could see them standing in the amber current where the white edges of their fins wimpled softly in the flow. They smelled of moss in your hand. Polished and muscular and torsional. On their backs were vermiculate patterns that were maps of the world in its becoming. Maps and mazes. Of a thing which could not be put back. Not be made right again. In the deep glens where they lived all things were older than man and they hummed of mystery. Cormac McCarthy

We learned that economic growth and environmental protection can and should go hand in hand. Christopher Dodd

Here is your country. Cherish these natural wonders, cherish the natural resources, cherish the history and romance as a sacred heritage, for your children and your children’s children. Do not let selfish men or greedy interests skin your country of its beauty, its riches or its romance. Theodore Roosevelt

The most important thing about global warming is this. Whether humans are responsible for the bulk of climate change is going to be left to the scientists, but it’s all of our responsibility to leave this planet in better shape for the future generations than we found it. Mike Huckabee

What is the use of a house if you haven’t got a tolerable planet to put it on? Henry David Thoreau

Plans to protect air and water, wilderness and wildlife are in fact plans to protect man. Stewart Udall

Oh Beautiful for smoggy skies, insecticided grain, For strip mined mountain’s majesty above the asphalt plain. America, America, man sheds his waste on thee, And hides the pines with billboard signs, from sea to oily sea. George Carlin

Raising awareness on the most pressing environmental issues of our time is more important than ever. Leonardo DiCaprio

A nation that destroys its soils destroys itself. Forests are the lungs of our land, purifying the air and giving fresh strength to our people. Franklin D. Roosevelt

Raising awareness on the most pressing environmental issues of our time is more important than ever. Leonardo DiCaprio

People would rather believe than know. Edward O. Wilson

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 the bee disappeared off the face of the earth, man would only have four years left to live. Maurice Maeterlinck

Environmental pollution is an incurable disease. It can only be prevented. Barry Commoner

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

There is a muscular energy in sunlight corresponding to the spiritual energy of wind. Annie Dillard

Something will have gone out of us as a people if we ever let the remaining wilderness be destroyed. We simply need that wild country available to us, even if we never do more than drive to its edge and look in. Wallace Stegner

If you cut down a forest, it doesn’t matter how many sawmills you have if there are no more trees. Susan George

All my life I’d been told what to believe about politics, coloreds, being a girl. But with Constantine’s thumb pressed in my hand, I realized I actually had a choice in what I could believe. Kathryn Stockett

Energy conservation is the foundation of energy independence. Tom Allen

This readiness to assume the guilt for the threats to our environment is deceptively reassuring: We like to be guilty since, if we are guilty, it all depends on us. We pull the strings of the catastrophe, so we can also save ourselves simply by changing our lives. What is really hard for us at least in the West to accept is that we are reduced to the role of a passive observer who sits and watches what our fate will be. To avoid this impotence, we engage in frantic, obsessive activities. We recycle old paper, we buy organic food, we install long lasting light bulbs whatever just so we can be sure that we are doing something. We make our individual contribution like the soccer fan who supports his team in front of a TV screen at home, shouting and jumping from his seat, in the belief that this will somehow influence the game’s outcome. Slavoj Žižek

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

My world, my Earth is a ruin. A planet spoiled by the human species. We multiplied and fought and gobbled until there was nothing left, and then we died. We controlled neither appetite nor violence; we did not adapt. We destroyed ourselves. But we destroyed the world first. Ursula K. Le Guin

You cannot achieve environmental security and human development without addressing the basic issues of health and nutrition. Gro Harlem Brundtland

Before you call yourself a Christian, Buddhist, Muslim, Hindu or any other theology, learn to be human first. Shannon L. Alder

Sooner or later, we will have to recognise that the Earth has rights, too, to live without pollution. What mankind must know is that human beings cannot live without Mother Earth, but the planet can live without humans. Evo Morales

The earth will not continue to offer its harvest, except with faithful stewardship. We cannot say we love the land and then take steps to destroy it for use by future generations. Pope John Paul II

The Earth does not belong to us we belong to the Earth. Chief Seattle

The time is right for electric cars in fact the time is critical. Carlos Ghosn

Why should we tolerate a diet of weak poisons, a home in insipid surroundings, a circle of acquaintances who are not quite our enemies, the noise of motors with just enough relief to prevent insanity? Who would want to live in a world which is just not quite fatal? Rachel Carson

We don’t have to sacrifice a strong economy for a healthy environment. Dennis Weaver

We’re in a giant car heading towards a brick wall and everyones arguing over where they’re going to sit. David Suzuki

We may achieve climate, but weather is thrust upon us. O. Henry

Why worry about minor little details like clean air, clean water, safe ports and the safety net when Jesus is going to give the world an Extreme Makeover Planet Edition right after he finishes putting Satan in his place once and for all? Arianna Huffington

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

Hurricanes couldn’t remove you from my mind. You’re my world and I’m incapable of not loving you. Billie Jo Williams

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. E. O. Wilson

Anyone who believes in indefinite growth in anything physical, on a physically finite planet, is either mad or an economist. Kenneth Boulding

Try to leave the Earth a better place than when you arrived. Sidney Sheldon

One thing about which fish know exactly nothing is water, since they have no anti environment which would enable them to perceive the element they live in. Marshall McLuhan

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

If those, who call the shots, are tightrope walking between unconcern and ignorance, giving way to unrestrained vagaries, and bypassing all the priorities of our environment, we mustn’t fail to value those who take courage to stand up against random practices, institutional malfunction and flagrant injustice, and speak out against social decay and moral obliviousness. Erik Pevernagie

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

To me, a witch is a woman that is capable of letting her intuition take hold of her actions, that communes with her environment, that isn’t afraid of facing challenges. Paulo Coelho

Every drop in the ocean counts. Yoko Ono

To waste, to destroy our natural resources, to skin and exhaust the land instead of using it so as to increase its usefulness, will result in undermining in the days of our children the very prosperity which we ought by right to hand down to them amplified and developed. Theodore Roosevelt

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

Nature shrinks as capital grows. The growth of the market cannot solve the very crisis it creates. Vandana Shiva

Sadly, it’s much easier to create a desert than a forest. James Lovelock

Like music and art, love of nature is a common language that can transcend political or social boundaries. Jimmy Carter

Nature is the mother and the habitat of man, even if sometimes a stepmother and an unfriendly home. John Dewey

We are such spendthrifts with our lives, the trick of living is to slip on and off the planet with the least fuss you can muster. I’m not running for sainthood. I just happen to think that in life we need to be a little like the farmer, who puts back into the soil what he takes out. Paul Newman

Mother Nature is not sweet. John Shelby Spong

Odd as I am sure it will appear to some, I can think of no better form of personal involvement in the cure of the environment than that of gardening. A person who is growing a garden, if he is growing it organically, is improving a piece of the world. He is producing something to eat, which makes him somewhat independent of the grocery business, but he is also enlarging, for himself, the meaning of food and the pleasure of eating. Wendell Berry

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 C. Burgess

God has, in fact, written two books, not just one. Of course, we are all familiar with the first book he wrote, namely Scripture. But he has written a second book called creation. Sir Francis Bacon

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

No matter how valuable you are and your ideas, fools will certainly play both of you down, so exclude yourselves from the inflammatory environs of fools. Michael Bassey Johnson

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

Progress is measured by the speed at which we destroy the conditions that sustain life. George Monbiot

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

Real women fight for something, other than their own emotions. Shannon L. Alder

The quicker we humans learn that saving open space and wildlife is critical to our welfare and quality of life, maybe we’ll start thinking of doing something about it. Jim Fowler

There is a tendency at every important but difficult crossroad to pretend that it’s not really there. Bill McKibben

We are using resources as if we had two planets, not one. There can be no plan B because there is no planet B. Ban Ki moon