1. I find it interesting that many of the people who want to restrict fossil fuels live in well-developed countries where abundant and affordable energy is readily available. - Lee R. Raymond 

2. You don't have to live in the country and grow your own food to be green. - Shalom Harlow 

3. Green-tech could be the largest economic opportunity of the 21st Century. - John Doerr 

4. We must move away from our dependency on fossil fuels, and I am glad that GM has invested over $1 billion in hydrogen fuel cells cars to meet this goal. - Albert Wynn 

5. Public discourse has been polluted now for decades by corporate-funded disinformation - not just with climate change but with a host of health, environmental and societal threats. The implications for the planet are grim. - Michael E. Mann

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

7. Not all is doom and gloom. We are beginning to understand the natural world and are gaining a reverence for life - all life. - Roger Tory Peterson 

8. Pushing production out of America to nations without our environmental standards increases global environmental risks. - Frank Murkowski 

9. I firmly believe that we can have a healthy environment and a sustainable timber industry. - Frank Murkowski 

10. Good environmental policy is good economic policy. - Bernie Sanders 

11. There are two problems for our species' survival - nuclear war and environmental catastrophe - and we're hurtling towards them. Knowingly. - Noam Chomsky 

12. No clean energy development is complete without extensive environmental protections, and I've been proud to work in a bipartisan fashion with my colleagues in Congress to protect our most precious natural resources. - Elise Stefanik 

13. The discrimination of women and girls goes to the core of any and all analyses of the world's economic, political, and environmental problems. - Winnie Byanyima 

14. If the federal government had been around when the Creator was putting His hand to this state, Indiana wouldn't be here. It'd still be waiting for an environmental impact statement. - Ronald Reagan 

15. I think it makes people in the Pentagon kind of nervous to know that chemical agents and environmental factors could cause so much damage in terms of what may happen in the future. - Bernie Sanders 

16. I see a future where states compete with one another to see which can be the most efficient, and where businesses seek out efficient states in which to locate so they can reap the economic and environmental benefits for their businesses and employees. - Bernie Sanders 

17. Clinton understands that climate change is real, is caused by human activity and is one of the great environmental crises facing our planet. She knows that we must transform our energy system away from fossil fuels and move aggressively to energy efficiency and sustainable energy. - Bernie Sanders

18. Election days come and go. But the struggle of the people to create a government which represents all of us and not just the one percent - a government based on the principles of economic, social, racial and environmental justice - that struggle continues. - Bernie Sanders 

19. This is absolutely bizarre that we continue to subsidize highways beyond the gasoline tax, airlines, and we don't subsidize, we don't want to subsidize a national rail system that has environmental impact. - Joe Biden 

20. The Chinese have figured out that they have a giant environmental problem. Folks in Beijing, some days, literally can't breathe. Over a million Chinese die prematurely every year because of air pollution. - Joe Biden 

21. I have voted against only one of President Obama's nominees: Michael Forman, a Citigroup alumnus who is currently storming the halls of Congress as U.S. Trade Representative pushing trade deals that threaten to undermine financial regulation, workers' rights, and environmental protections. - Elizabeth Warren 

22. Congressional Republicans are dismantling the limited environmental protections initiated by Richard Nixon, who would be something of a dangerous radical in today's political scene. - Noam Chomsky 

23. I have a private plane. But I fly commercial when I go to environmental conferences. - Arnold Schwarzenegger 

24. Human civilization as we know it is like the Titanic headed for the iceberg, whether the iceberg be nuclear, environmental or terrorism-related. - Marianne Williamson 

25. Advertising is an environmental striptease for a world of abundance. - Marshall McLuhan 

26. All we can hope for is that the thing is going to slowly and imperceptibly shift. All I can say is that 50 years ago there were no such thing as environmental policies. - David Attenborough 

27. All our environmental problems become easier to solve with fewer people and harder - and ultimately impossible to solve - with ever more people. - David Attenborough 

28. The environmental problems of developing countries are not the side effects of excessive industrialization but reflect the inadequacy of development. - Indira Gandhi 

29. A very Faustian choice is upon us: whether to accept our corrosive and risky behavior as the unavoidable price of population and economic growth, or to take stock of ourselves and search for a new environmental ethic. - E. O. Wilson 

30. I think the environmental problem will be the number one item on the agenda of the 21st century... This is a problem that cannot be postponed. - Mikhail Gorbachev 

31. Justice Scalia was a person who effectively bludgeoned the life out of the living Constitution, the Constitution that gave us desegregation, that gave us women's rights, that gave us environmental protections and political access. - Kimberle Williams Crenshaw 

32. We the people have the strength to bring our country from our weak-kneed stumbling gait in the last ranks of reason to the leadership of the great march to environmental victory. - Walter Cronkite 

33. I've used the prestige and influence of having been a president of the United States as effectively as possible. And secondly, I've still been able to carry out my commitments to peace and human rights and environmental quality and freedom and democracy and so forth. - Jimmy Carter 

34. If one of the arguments against eating meat is to do with cruelty and animal intelligence, then lab meat avoids that. There's also the environmental argument for it. - Margaret Atwood 

35. I took the initiative in moving forward a whole range of initiatives that have proven to be important to our country's economic growth, environmental protection, improvements in our educational system. - Al Gore 

36. People in Slow Food understand that food is an environmental issue. - Michael Pollan 

37. Meat is a mighty contributor to climate change and other environmental problems. The amount of meat we're eating is one of the leading causes of climate change. It's as important as the kind of car you drive - whether you eat meat a lot or how much meat you eat. - Michael Pollan

38. In a world of serious threats to the U.K. and to global stability, where we see violence and conflict pulling people back into poverty, international terrorism, migration crises, children dying from preventable diseases and global environmental concerns on the rise, Britain's leadership on the world stage is more important than ever. - Priti Patel 

39. When you buy a jacket, you pick the size to ensure it fits. Similarly, we live in a universe in which the amount of dark energy fits our biological make-up. If the amount of dark energy were substantially different from what we've measured, the environmental conditions would be inhospitable to our form of life. - Brian Greene 

40. Nature's patterns sometimes reflect two intertwined features: fundamental physical laws and environmental influences. It's nature's version of nature versus nurture. - Brian Greene 

41. I'd been making music that was intended to be like painting, in the sense that it's environmental, without the customary narrative and episodic quality that music normally has. I called this 'ambient music.' But at the same time I was trying to make visual art become more like music, in that it changed the way that music changes. - Brian Eno 

42. Over and over, we hear politicians say they can't spend our tax dollars on environmental protection when the economy is so fragile. - David Suzuki 

43. If we want to address global warming, along with the other environmental problems associated with our continued rush to burn our precious fossil fuels as quickly as possible, we must learn to use our resources more wisely, kick our addiction, and quickly start turning to sources of energy that have fewer negative impacts. - David Suzuki 

44. From year to year, environmental changes are incremental and often barely register in our lives, but from evolutionary or geological perspectives, what is happening is explosive change. - David Suzuki 

45. Beyond reducing individual use, one of our top priorities must be to move from fossil fuels to energy that has fewer detrimental effects on water supplies and fewer environmental impacts overall. - David Suzuki 

46. I always felt that if someone shot me, it would be great for the environmental movement, because they would make me a martyr. Our biggest fear was our children, because there was a tremendous amount of threat and intimidation, and my wife was terrified that the children might be grabbed or assaulted in some way. That was the real fear. - David Suzuki 

47. Our message to leaders from every continent was simple: California has succeeded on climate and clean energy because we've emphasized local, human values and built a coalition that includes community and environmental leaders, working families, and communities of color - as well as unions and progressive business. - Tom Steyer 

48. I always thought we had an environmental problem, but I hadn't realized how urgent it was. James Lovelock writes that by the end of this century there will be one billion people left. - Vivienne Westwood 

49. Economists treat economics as if it is a pure science divorced from the facts of life. The result of this false accountancy is a willful confusion under cover of which industry wreaks its havoc scot-free and ignores the environmental cost. - Vivienne Westwood 

50. Food and the way we grow it and produce it are a major cause of environmental degradation. - Jose Andres 

51. The industrial processes in use today were developed at a time when no one had to consider what the environmental impact was. Who cared? But making ecological concerns matter to a company's bottom line will help it do the research and development that will reinvent everything we buy. - Daniel Goleman 

52. I thought I was gonna be an attorney, so I went to Dartmouth and I was a government major and I minored in environmental policy, and I didn't do anything academically around the arts. - Aisha Tyler 

53. I have American in-laws, and I care about the environment. We don't use disposable diapers, which, of course, creates an environmental problem of our own. - Yakov Smirnoff 

54. My lens of choice was always the 35 mm. It was more environmental. You can't come in closer with the 35 mm. - Annie Leibovitz 

55. The Body Shop Foundation is run by our staff and supports social activism and environmental activism. We don't tend to support big agencies. - Anita Roddick 

56. Because glass is at once structural and transparent, it is relatively easy to consider the integration of structural and environmental building performance within a single integrated skin. - Neri Oxman 

57. Prior to the Industrial Revolution, hand-production methods were abundant. Craft defined everything. The craftsman had an almost phenomenological knowledge of materials and intuited how to vary their properties according to their structural and environmental characteristics. - Neri Oxman 

58. 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 

59. I have a huge fan following in Bellary, and when they met me, they told me about their problems. I have seen mining done without proper safety measures and not taking environmental protection into account. - Pawan Kalyan 

60. Environmental spending creates jobs in engineering, manufacturing, construction, materials, operations and maintenance. - Keith Ellison 

61. Sustainable development is the pathway to the future we want for all. It offers a framework to generate economic growth, achieve social justice, exercise environmental stewardship and strengthen governance. - Ban Ki-moon 

62. Grave security concerns can arise as a result of demographic trends, chronic poverty, economic inequality, environmental degradation, pandemic diseases, organized crime, repressive governance and other developments no state can control alone. Arms can't address such concerns. - Ban Ki-moon 

63. Factory farming is one of the biggest contributors to the most serious environmental problems. The meat industry causes more greenhouse gas emissions than all the cars, trucks, planes and ships in the world. - Joan Jett 

64. I definitely want to get into environmental science and environmental politics, learning a lot more and preserving what's left of the world. That's such a sacred circle to be in. I'd love to contribute to that. - SZA 

65. During my travels in Iraq, Israel, Gaza, Brazil, Indonesia, Japan, Europe and all over the United States, I have seen and heard the voices of people who want change. They want the stabilization of the economy, education and healthcare for all, renewable energy and an environmental vision with an eye on generations to come. - Michael Franti 

66. I've been active in animal rights and all kinds of environmental stuff and children's charities over the years. - Martina Navratilova 

67. I think an old style of addressing environmental problems is ebbing, but the rise of the so-called conservative, political movement in this country is not a trend towards the future but a reaction to this very broad shift that we are undergoing. - Paul Hawken 

68. The responses that environmentalists evoke - fear, anxiety, numbness, despair - are not helpful, even if they are understandable. It should be fascinating, even enthralling, to be in the milieu of environmental change. - Paul Hawken 

69. If people are prepared to eat locally and seasonally, then they probably do pretty well in terms of environmental impact. - Peter Singer 

70. Taking on corporate greed is an environmental concern. - Rashida Tlaib 

71. What I remain opposed to is the idea that David Cameron could go around and give up workers' rights, give up environmental protection, give up a whole load of things that are very important. - Jeremy Corbyn 

72. Riding a bicycle is the summit of human endeavor - an almost neutral environmental effect coupled with the ability to travel substantial distances without disturbing anybody. The bike is the perfect marriage of technology and human energy. - Jeremy Corbyn 

73. It is not rational, never mind 'appropriate,' to impose billions of dollars in economic costs in return for a few dollars in health or environmental benefits. - Antonin Scalia 

74. Some of the environmental lobbyists of the Western nations are the salt of the earth, but many of them are elitists. - Norman Borlaug 

75. Ever since we achieved a breakthrough in the area of recombinant DNA in 1973, left-wing nuts and environmental kooks have been screaming that we will create some kind of Frankenstein bug or Andromeda Strain that will destroy us all. - James D. Watson