100+ Environmental Issues Quotes

source: John Muir (2011). “My First Summer in the Sierra: Illustrated Edition”, p.104, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

topic: Motivational, Wisdom, Nature, Talkative, Wild Animal

The most important environmental issue is one that is rarely mentioned, and that is the lack of a conservation ethic in our culture.

- Gaylord Nelson

topic: Issues, Environmental, Important, Environmental Issues

I like the outdoors and the natural world. Environmental issues.

- Mackenzie Crook

source: "Goodbye cruel Slough". Interview with Sam Wollaston, www.theguardian.com. February 19, 2004.

topic: Issues, Environmental, World, Environmental Issues

I'd say that animal rights and environmental issues have always been at the forefront of my mind.

- Corey Feldman

topic: Animal, Rights, Issues, Environmental Issues

Like I said, I'm more worried long term about the environmental issues then the use of arms.

- Hans Blix

topic: Issues, Long, Environmental, Environmental Issues

Franklin Roosevelt was very concerned about environmental issues.

- Gaylord Nelson

topic: Issues, Environmental, Franklin, Environmental Issues

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

topic: Nature, I Hate You, Heart, Beautiful Nature, National Parks

I believe that in order to tackle the big issues of the world today, like environmental issues, we need everybody's involvement. We need the resources of the corporate world. We need the cooperation of governments. We need the wisdom of indigenous people.

- Michael Franti

topic: Believe, Government, Order, Indigenous People, Environmental Issues

The language "it's too late" is very unsuitable for most environmental issues. It's too late for the dodo and for people who've starved to death already, but it's not too late to prevent an even bigger crisis. The sooner we act on the environment, the better.

- Jeremy Grantham

source: "Jeremy Grantham on population growth, China and climate sceptics" by Leo Hickman, www.theguardian.com. April 15, 2013.

topic: Environmental Issues

Now is not the time to repudiate environmental balance, but rather it is the time for all of us to work together - politician, advocate, rancher, scientist, and citizen. Only by doing this will the United States move forward and be a leader in environmental issues and ensure sustainability to our delicate ecosystem.

- Robert Redford

topic: Moving, Ecosystems, Issues, Environmental Issues, Ranchers

The interesting thing is, everybody focuses on the global warming as an environmental issue, as something outside our daily lives. But actually the impact of global warming is with us today. Communities are suffering. Communities in poor countries are the ones paying the price, they are not the ones who are polluting, and we need to help them adapt.

- Kofi Annan

source: Source: www.global-leaders.tv

topic: Country, Issues, Impact, Poor Countries, Environmental Issues

To the greatest extent possible, I try to make choices that involve the least amount of cruelty and environmental damage. I'm interested in sustainable agriculture, environmental issues, human rights, and my interconnectedness in the web of life. It is a great pleasure for me to find products and practices that have a positive effect on living beings and the environment, rather than a negative one.

- Vesanto Melina

topic: Rights, Practice, Agriculture, Sustainable Agriculture, Web Of Life

This whole idea that we address environmental issues by not doing stuff just doesn't work.

- Natalie Jeremijenko

source: "The Q&A: Natalie Jeremijenko, thingker". More Intelligent Life Interview, www.economist.com. September 20, 2010.

topic: Ideas, Issues, Environmental, Environmental Issues

I'm a latecomer to the environmental issue, which for years seemed to me like an excuse for more government regulation. But I can see that in rich societies, voters are paying less attention to economic issues and more to issues of the spirit, including the environment.

- David Frum

topic: Government, Years, Issues, Economic Issues, Environmental Issues

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

- Bill Nye

topic: Thinking, Issues, Environmental, Environmental Issues, Serious Issues

Americans don't pay much attention to environmental issues, because they aren't sexy. I mean, cleaning up coal plants and reining in outlaw frackers is hugely important work, but it doesn't get anybody's pulse racing.

- Jeff Goodell

topic: Sexy, Mean, Issues, Cleaning Up, Environmental Issues

Americans increasingly understand that clean energy is more than just an environmental issue. It is crucial to reducing our dangerous dependence on foreign countries.

- Martin Heinrich

topic: Country, Issues, Environmental, Environmental Issues, Foreign Countries

I assume we will have figured out a way to efficiently utilize solar energy and tied that to an efficient way to use nuclear energy in such a way that it doesn't pose a serious environmental issue.

- John Hickenlooper

topic: Issues, Environmental, Energy, Nuclear Energy, Solar Energy

At 82, Nelson (who wrote the song "On the Road Again," among a thousand or more others) is the elder statesman of country music, a steadying and powerful voice in the industry and on environmental issues, and he's still on the road much of the year. The music keeps calling.

- Willie Nelson

topic: Country, Song, Powerful, Environmental Issues

The American agenda is sweeping everything before it, and although it's not perfect, the EU is better on environmental issues. It's a less rapacious form of capitalism.

- Ken Livingstone

topic: Issues, Perfect, Environmental, Environmental Issues

Climate change isn't just an environmental issue; it's a technology, water, food, energy, population issue. None of this happens in a vacuum.

- David Titley

source: "'Climate Change War' Is Not a Metaphor". Interview with Eric Holthaus, www.slate.com. April 18, 2014.

topic: Technology, Issues, Water, Environmental Issues

Politicians had always viewed environmental issues as narrow things of no great political consequence. Sort of NIMBY issues. A big part of the reason was that the groups that cared about wilderness didn't talk with the groups that were trying to stop freeways from cutting through inner cities, and neither of them talked to the folks who wanted to stop the military from dumping Agent Orange on Vietnam.

- Denis Hayes

source: "The Rumpus Interview with Earth Day organiser Denis Hayes". Interview with Melissa Price, therumpus.net. April 22, 2009.

topic: Military, Cutting, Cities, Environmental Issues, Agent Orange

Earth Day gathered up those strands, and dozens more, and knitted them together in the public consciousness as "environmental" issues. The nation was pretty startled when 20 million people hit the streets. Congress, which had adjourned for the day to go back to its districts, was blown away.

- Denis Hayes

source: "The Rumpus Interview with Earth Day organiser Denis Hayes". Interview with Melissa Pric, therumpus.net. April 22, 2009.

topic: Issues, People, Earth Day, Environmental Issues

With time environmental issues got much more complicated. It is pretty easy, if you know what you are doing, to stop a company from pouring poison into a lake where kids swim. It is much harder to address all the myriad greenhouse gases emitted by different sources - from petrochemical refineries to hundreds of millions of peasants cutting down trees for their incredibly inefficient cook stoves.

- Denis Hayes

source: Source: therumpus.net

topic: Kids, Cutting, Lakes, Environmental Issues, Refinery

I've always been very involved with environmental issues. I was fortunate to be one of the speakers at the Earth Summit in Rio de Janiero some years back, and Bruce Johnson and I served on the board of the Surfrider Foundation here at home. Locally and globally, we need to be doing everything we can to help Mother Earth.

- Mike Love

source: "Mike Love of the Beach Boys". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. September 1, 2013.

topic: Environmental Issues

For me, the term "psychotherapy" is limiting. It implies that we work with mind and emotions, but excludes the body and pays scant attention to the spirit, soul, and broader environmental issues.

- Jed Diamond

source: Source: www.psychologytoday.com

topic: Issues, Soul, Mind, Environmental Issues

On almost every environmental issue I care about, in fact, I've been wrong at one point or another. I used to think that climate change was no big deal, that most environmental problems were massive exaggerations, that oil reserves were effectively unlimited, and more.

- Ramez Naam

topic: Thinking, Oil, Issues, Environmental Issues, Environmental Problems

Many people who live in big countries like ours thought that we had resources that would work for us for many, many years, but that was a mistake. Our natural wealth corrupted us. In this country, you were among the first to raise environmental issues. In Russia, despite all of its problems today, people are concerned about the environment, and it's become a central issue on the agenda.

- Mikhail Gorbachev

source: Interview with Amitabh Pal, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. November 12, 2003.

topic: Country, Mistake, Years, Environmental Issues

Once you figure out something about the watershed, you'll find out where the schools are going to hell, and the kids aren't learning, and there is no money. Social issues, class issues, and environmental issues were all connected.

- Robert Hass

source: Interview with Sarah Pollock, www.motherjones.com. March/April, 1997.

topic: School, Kids, Class, Watersheds, Environmental Issues

We've abnegated the Kyoto treaty, we've instituted a voluntary program that's obviously not been working, we've taken every effort to excise references to global warming from official documents, to try to undermine international conferences that work on environmental issues, and on and on and on.

- Bill McKibben

source: Source: theotherjournal.com

topic: Taken, Kyoto, Issues, Environmental Issues

We'll continue to see more and more brands integrate social causes, charitable components and environmental issues as underlying themes to their campaigns and messaging. Humans connect with humans after all, and brands are using this as a point of connection to engage with their audience, especially charity-minded Generation Y.

- Amy Jo Martin

source: "What’s Around the Social Media Corner for Brands in 2013" by Amy Jo Martin, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 24, 2013.

topic: Issues, Environmental, Generations, Environmental Issues, Generation Y

Do not listen to those who say there is nothing you can do to the very real and large social and environmental issues of our time,

- Maude Barlow

topic: Real, Issues, Environmental, Environmental Issues

It is a fact that, in the West, we live in a capitalist society, but that does not mean that we cannot be guided by the idea of a social conscience in our work. Yes, fashion design requires consumers to consume, but we can do our bit for society by running our companies in a socially responsible way, and by creating products that promote respect for social and environmental issues. There is also the possibility for power and influence to be a force for change.

- Giorgio Armani

topic: Change, Running, Fashion, Fashion Design, Environmental Issues

Kyoto protocol is not a simple environmental issue, where you can say scientists are not unanimous. This is about international relations, this is about the economy, about trying to create a level playing field for big businesses throughout the world. You have to understand what is at stake, and that is why it is serious,...

- Margot Wallstrom

topic: Simple, Kyoto, Issues, Level Playing Field, Kyoto Protocol

I have come to believe that extracting natural gas from shale using the newish technique called hydrofracking is the environmental issue of our time. And I think you should, too.

- Sandra Steingraber

topic: Believe, Thinking, Issues, Environmental Issues

When future generations judge those who came before them on environmental issues, they may conclude "they didn't know": let us not go down in history as the generations who knew, but didn't care

- Mikhail Gorbachev

topic: Future, Issues, Judging, Environmental Issues, Sustainable Development

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

- Michael Pollan

topic: Issues, People, Environmental, Slow Food, Environmental Issues

Providing a real way to deal with the urgent needs of environmental issues that is accessible to everyone is the new fight for the democratization of design.

- Philippe Starck

topic: Real, Fighting, Issues, Democratization, Environmental Issues

In a flat choice between smoke and jobs, we're for jobs... But just keep me out of trouble on environmental issues.

- Richard M. Nixon

topic: Jobs, Issues, Choices, Environmental Issues

The Nile Project is the performing side of an effort that also includes education in music and environmental issues, raising awareness of the entire Nile basin as an ecosystem. With such vibrant music, the good intentions were a bonus; the Nile Project was a superb example of what I call small-world music, of what happens to traditions in the information age.

- Jon Pareles

topic: Ecosystems, Issues, Effort, Information Age, Small World

I've been a philanthropist for all my life, and... I've had many involvements in humanitarian and environmental issues.

- Julian Lennon

source: "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Issues, Environmental, Humanitarian, Environmental Issues

Climate change is not an environmental issue, but much more to do with security and economics

- Jonathon Porritt

topic: Issues, Environmental, Climate, Environmental Issues

[D]id you really expect fairness on the environmental issue? For a swathe of reporters, this is not a matter of empirical reporting; it's a matter of faith. Bush cannot be pro-environment because he's Bush.

- Andrew Sullivan

topic: Issues, Environmental, Politics, Environmental Issues

I feel privileged to be a U.N. ambassador. It gives me an opportunity to use my voice to help raise awareness about important social and environmental issues.

- Gisele Bundchen

topic: Opportunity, Voice, Issues, Environmental Issues

The environmental issues we face today are complex and span many knowledge domains. This undergraduate degree programme in Environmental Studies will nurture a pool of graduates who are able to think deeply and broadly about these issues, and help develop novel solutions for Singapore, Asia and beyond. I am delighted at this programme for another reason - it is the first undergraduate course that draws on expertise from eight Faculties in NUS, making full use of the comprehensive strengths of our University.

- Tan Chorh Chuan

topic: Thinking, Eight, Issues, Environmental Issues, Undergraduate

The choices and decisions we make in terms of how we use the land ultimately affect our very DNA. Environmental issues are life issues.

- Terry Tempest Williams

topic: Dna, Decisions We Make, Land, Choices And Decisions, Environmental Issues

When people denounced [former Iranian president Mahmoud] Ahmadinejad for rejecting and criminalizing homosexuality, it should be remembered that was true of the United States until very recently. Women's rights were unheard of. Civil rights proponents were horribly treated, not just in the South. It was awful there, but pretty bad here. Environmental issues did not exist. Opposition to aggression was virtually zero. In fact, so little, that to this day, even scholarship mentions the Vietnam War as beginning in 1965.

- Noam Chomsky

source: Source: www.truth-out.org

topic: Zero, War, Rights, Environmental Issues, Rejecting

We need more emphasis on linking jobs and economic progress with environmental issues, and not allowing environmentally damaging industries to be brought into the country simply to provide employment. It's not easy to balance.

- Mary Robinson

source: Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org

topic: Country, Jobs, Issues, Economic Progress, Environmental Issues

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