1. Sadly, it's much easier to create a desert than a forest. - James Lovelock
2. If we gave up eating beef we would have roughly 20 to 30 times more land for food than we have now. - James Lovelock
3. China will soon emit more greenhouse gases than America, but its regime knows if it caps aspirations there will be a revolution. - James Lovelock
4. I see humanity now as one vast plant, needing for its highest fulfillment only love, the natural blessings of the great outdoors, and intelligent crossing and selection. - Luther Burbank
5. We must return to nature and nature's god. - Luther Burbank
6. We are aware only of the empty space in the forest, which only yesterday was filled with trees. - Anna Freud
7. If we bestow but a very little attention to the economy of the animal creation, we shall find manifest examples of premeditation, perseverance, resolution, and consulates artifice, in order to effect their purpose. - William Bartram
8. The future will either be green or not at all. - Bob Brown
9. When all the world appears to be in a tumult, and nature itself is feeling the assault of climate change, the seasons retain their essential rhythm. Yes, fall gives us a premonition of winter, but then, winter, will be forced to relent, once again, to the new beginnings of soft greens, longer light, and the sweet air of spring. - Madeleine M. Kunin
10. I do believe very strongly that all of us and all of the other things in the context of our planet with Mother Nature, all of these things absolutely have a profound effect. - Kiefer Sutherland
11. Take air quality in the United States today: It's about 30 percent better than it was 25 years ago, even though there are now more people driving more cars. - Jared Diamond
12. 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
13. If we do not permit the earth to produce beauty and joy, it will in the end not produce food, either. - Joseph Wood Krutch
14. If people destroy something replaceable made by mankind, they are called vandals; if they destroy something irreplaceable made by God, they are called developers. - Joseph Wood Krutch
15. You cannot achieve environmental security and human development without addressing the basic issues of health and nutrition. - Gro Harlem Brundtland
16. Journey with me to a true commitment to our environment. Journey with me to the serenity of leaving to our children a planet in equilibrium. - Paul Tsongas
17. Energy conservation is the foundation of energy independence. - Tom Allen
18. I really believe in the environmental movement right now - it only takes a little effort to make a big difference. - Brooke Burke
19. Environmental pollution is an incurable disease. It can only be prevented. - Barry Commoner
20. Environmental concern is now firmly embedded in public life: in education, medicine and law; in journalism, literature and art. - Barry Commoner
21. Yet, despite our many advances, our environment is still threatened by a range of problems, including global climate change, energy dependence on unsustainable fossil fuels, and loss of biodiversity. - Dan Lipinski
22. The hydrogen powered car, with its high fuel mileage and zero emission rate, is just one example of the products under development that will help increase our energy independence. - Dan Lipinski
23. The high prices also highlight the fact that the U.S. is too heavily dependent on fossil fuels that we import from unstable parts of the world. To protect our national security, we must become more energy secure. - Dan Lipinski
24. 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
25. I think the government has to reposition environment on top of their national and international priorities. - Brian Mulroney
26. It seems to me like Mother Nature's mercy and forgiveness have run dry, as we ceaselessly abuse her and take her for granted in order for us to continue our addiction to using fossil fuels. I've gotta say, I don't blame her. Not one bit. - Gloria Reuben
27. The sooner we get started with alternative energy sources and recognize that fossil fuels makes us less secure as a nation, and more dangerous as a planet, the better off we'll be. - Lindsey Graham
28. After all, sustainability means running the global environment - Earth Inc. - like a corporation: with depreciation, amortization and maintenance accounts. In other words, keeping the asset whole, rather than undermining your natural capital. - Maurice Strong
29. Try to leave the Earth a better place than when you arrived. - Sidney Sheldon
30. 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
31. Environmentalism is a form of pagan fundamentalism. These green wackos are fanatics like al-Quaida. Just like them. - G. Gordon Liddy
32. I'm very concerned for the future of the earth and its amazing creatures. We've got to be careful and make sure we don't foul our own nest. - John Lithgow
33. People need to be cautious because anything built by man can be destroyed by Mother Nature. - Russel Honore
34. The environment has fallen to the wayside in politics. - Craig Venter
35. Unless we keep this planet healthy, everything else is for naught. - Victoria Principal
36. Under the Environmental Protection Agency's Energy Star Program, homes are independently verified to be measurably more energy efficient than average houses. - Melissa Bean
37. When we realize we can make a buck cleaning up the environment, it will be done! - Dennis Weaver
38. We don't have to sacrifice a strong economy for a healthy environment. - Dennis Weaver
39. I think the future for solar energy is bright. - Ken Salazar
40. We learned that economic growth and environmental protection can and should go hand in hand. - Christopher Dodd
41. Fracking has been used for more than 60 years to successfully drill over a million oil and gas wells in the U.S. Nonetheless, the prevailing mythology on the radical left is that the technology is 'poisoning our children' by polluting the water we drink and the air we breathe. - Bob Beauprez
42. A majority of American citizens are now becoming skeptical of the claim that our carbon footprints, resulting from our use of fossil fuels, are going to lead to climatic calamities. But governments are not yet listening to the citizens. - John Coleman
43. For me, going vegan was an ethical and environmental decision. I'm doing the right thing by the animals. - Alexandra Paul
44. I had never been able to get a car that said how much I cared about the environment until I drove electric. - Alexandra Paul
45. No one should be able to enter a wilderness by mechanical means. - Garrett Hardin
46. Why are ecologists and environmentalists so feared and hated? This is because in part what they have to say is new to the general public, and the new is always alarming. - Garrett Hardin
47. Plans to protect air and water, wilderness and wildlife are in fact plans to protect man. - Stewart Udall
48. No one is an environmentalist by birth. It is only your path, your life, your travels that awaken you. - Yann Arthus-Bertrand
49. The government should set a goal for a clean environment but not mandate how that goal should be implemented. - Dixie Lee Ray
50. Mankind is considered (by the radical environmentalists) the lowest and the meanest of all species and is blamed for everything. - Dixie Lee Ray
51. A knowledgeable and courageous U.S. president could help enormously in leading the world's nations toward saving the climate. - Donella Meadows
52. You may be able to fool the voters, but not the atmosphere. - Donella Meadows
53. It's obvious nonsense, but it makes nice people feel good about themselves to do their bit for the planet. It's vanity of a grotesque kind to believe that mankind, and our 'carbon footprint', has more impact on the future of Earth than Nature, which bends our planet to its will, as it sees fit. - Charles Saatchi
54. To be clear, climate change is a true 800 pound gorilla in the room. The effects of global warming threaten global environmental upheaval over the coming century. But for South Florida and the Everglades, it could be our death knell if urgent action is not taken. - Debbie Wasserman Schultz
55. Mother Nature comes up against reality, and the reality is that the system doesn't work. - John Garamendi
56. Within 10 years it will be impossible to travel to the North Pole by dog team. There will be too much open water. - Will Steger
57. Maintaining healthy forests is essential to those who make a living from the land and for those of us who use them for recreational purposes. - Cathy McMorris Rodgers
58. In today's world, it is no longer unimaginable to think that business can operate - and even thrive - in an environmentally-friendly manner. - Olympia Snowe
59. If you cut down a forest, it doesn't matter how many sawmills you have if there are no more trees. - Susan George
60. Liberals in Congress have spent the past three decades pandering to environmental extremists. The policies they have put in place are in large part responsible for the energy crunch we are seeing today. We have not built a refinery in this country for 30 years. - Marsha Blackburn
61. Without the oceans there would be no life on Earth. - Peter Benchley
62. 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
63. I would point out that if you're a believer in the Bible, one would have to say the Great Flood is an example of climate change and that certainly wasn't because mankind had overdeveloped hydrocarbon energy. - Joe Barton
64. In fact, because of their connection to the land, farmers do more to protect and preserve our environment than almost anyone else. They are some of the best environmentalists around. - Ike Skelton
65. 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. - Norm Dicks
66. We can have technology, prosperity, nice homes and cars, but at the same time we must be conscious of what we are dumping into the water, the air and our food. - Kevin Richardson
67. If we don't continue to pursue alternative, emissions-free energy sources like nuclear fuel, we are at risk of increasing our dependence on costly natural gas. - Judy Biggert
68. In places where this beauty has already disappeared, we will reconstruct it. - Fritz Todt
69. There is no place where we can safely store worn-out reactors or their garbage. No place! - David R. Brower
70. It seems that every time mankind is given a lot of energy, we go out and wreck something with it. - David R. Brower
71. Much of the debate over global warming is predicated on fear, rather than science. - Jim Inhofe
72. I can find God in nature, in animals, in birds and the environment. - Pat Buckley
73. Nevertheless, there is another threat on the horizon. I see this threat in environmentalism which is becoming a new dominant ideology, if not a religion. Its main weapon is raising the alarm and predicting the human life endangering climate change based on man-made global warming. - Vaclav Klaus
74. Local innovation and initiative can help us better understand how to protect our environment. - Gale Norton
75. Why has it seemed that the only way to protect the environment is with heavy-handed government regulation? - Gale Norton
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