Environmental Sustainability Quotes:

Where the quality of life goes down for the environment, the quality of life goes down for humans.

- George Holland

topic: Quality, Environment, Quality Of Life, Environmental Quality, Environmental Sustainability

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

source: Margaret Mead, Robert B. Textor (2005). “The World Ahead: An Anthropologist Anticipates the Future”, p.12, Berghahn Books

topic: Inspirational, Life, Friendship, Social Democracy, Social Entrepreneurship

We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect.

- Aldo Leopold

source: A Sand County Almanac foreword (1949)

topic: Inspiring, Nature, Ocean, Inspirational Environmental, Inspiring Nature

Forests are the lungs of our land......

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

topic: Land, Forests, Inspirational Earth, Inspirational Environmental, Inspiring Nature

Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's needs, but not every man's greed.

- Mahatma Gandhi

topic: Inspirational, Spiritual, Nature, Inspirational Earth, Inspirational Environmental

Nature provides a free lunch, but only if we control our appetites.

- William Ruckelshaus

source: Business Week, June 18, 1990.

topic: Lunch, Environment, Appetite, Free Lunch, One With Nature

Economic advance is not the same thing as human progress.

- John Clapham

topic: Progress, Environment, Economic, Human Progress, World Environment

The issue of climate change is one that we ignore at our own peril. There may still be disputes about exactly how much we're contributing to the warming of the earth's atmosphere and how much is naturally occurring, but what we can be scientifically certain of is that our continued use of fossil fuels is pushing us to a point of no return. And unless we free ourselves from a dependence on these fossil fuels and chart a new course on energy in this country, we are condemning future generations to global catastrophe.

- Barack Obama

topic: Country, Ignorance, Issues, Condemning, Environmental Sustainability

He who knows what sweets and virtues are in the ground, the plants, the waters, the heavens, and how to come at these enchantments - is the rich and royal man.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

source: Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “The Selected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.154, Graphic Arts Books

topic: Sweet, Garden, Men, Inspirational Environmental, Environmental Sustainability

The human race is challenged more than ever before to demonstrate our mastery, not over nature but of ourselves.

- Rachel Carson

topic: Nature, Future, Character, Environmental Sustainability, Silent Spring

Listen up, you couch potatoes: each recycled beer can saves enough electricity to run a television for three hours.

- Denis Hayes

topic: Running, Fun, Beer, Environmental Sustainability, Recycled

When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.

- John Muir

topic: Inspirational, Peace, Nature, Natural Things, Beautiful Nature

Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together. All things connect.

- Chief Seattle

topic: Life, Lonely, Nature, Indian, Inspirational Earth

The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river.

- Ross Perot

topic: Dirty, Men, Rivers, Inspirational Environmental, Natural Environment

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.

- Mahatma Gandhi

topic: Peace, Nature, Reflection, Social Environment, Green World

Be The Peace You Wish To See In The World!

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Positive, Important Work, Social Good

In America today you can murder land for private profit. You can leave the corpse for all to see, and nobody calls the cops.

- Paul Brooks

source: Paul Brooks (1971). “The pursuit of wilderness”

topic: America, Land, Today, Land Conservation, Environmental Sustainability

Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell.

- Edward Abbey

source: Quoted in Reader's Digest, Jan. 1970

topic: Inspirational, Nature, Cancer, Wildlife And Nature, Political Environment

Until man duplicates a blade of grass, nature can laugh at his so called scientific knowledge.

- Thomas A. Edison

topic: Nature, Men, Laughing, Healthy Living, Inspirational Earth

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

- Ansel Adams

source: "Playboy Interview: Ansel Adams". Interview with David Sheff, Playboy (p. 226), May 1, 1983.

topic: Nature, Fighting, Government, Inspirational Environmental, Our Planet

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.

- Unknown

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Way In Life, Empowering Women

There are no passengers on spaceship earth. We are all crew.

- Marshall McLuhan

source: "Paradigms Lost: Learning from Environmental Mistakes, Mishaps and Misdeeds" by Daniel A. Vallero, (p. 367), 2005.

topic: Motivational, Nature, Past, Social Environment, Inspirational Earth

The Senegalese conservationist Baba Dioum can summarize: "In the end, we will conserve only what we love, we will love only what we understand, and we will understand only what we are taught."

- Ursula Goodenough

topic: Environmental, Understanding Love, End Of The World, Sustaining, Environmental Sustainability

The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us, the less taste we shall have for destruction.

- Rachel Carson

source: Rachel Carson (2002). “Silent Spring”, p.19, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

topic: Nature, Zoos, Ocean, Deep Ecology, Destruction Of Nature

People 'over-produce' pollution because they are not paying for the costs of dealing with it.

- Ha-Joon Chang

topic: People, Cost, Environment, Dealing With It, Sustainable Living

Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.

- Henrik Tikkanen

topic: Time, Thinking, Generations, Inspirational Environmental, Generation Gap

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

topic: Nature, Thinking, Earth Day, Natural Things, One With Nature

The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition.

- Carl Sagan

topic: Ambition, Science, Perfect, My Ambition, World Environment

Without environmental sustainability, economic stability and social cohesion cannot be achieved

- Phil Harding

topic: Future, Vision, Environmental, Economic Stability, Environmental Sustainability

Sara Scherr and Jeff McNeely have given us a thoughtful, sensible book about a topic of great importance to the world. There is no food security, no poverty reduction, no environmental sustainability without transforming our agricultural practices. The book ?presents well documented cases of best practices from all over the world. It should be required reading for all concerned with agriculture, the environment, food security or just the future of our children.

- Ismail Serageldin

topic: Children, Book, Reading, Best Practices, Environmental Sustainability

I want Canada to be the country that is the best in the world at combining economic growth, social justice and environmental sustainability...

- Stephane Dion

topic: Country, Justice, Growth, Combining, Environmental Sustainability

The planetary phase of history has begun, but the future shape of global society remains profoundly uncertain. Though perhaps improbable, a shift toward a planetary civilization of enriched lives, human solidarity, and environmental sustainability is still possible.

- Paul Raskin

topic: Civilization, Humanity, Environmental, Environmental Sustainability