Environmental Quotes

The planet is not something we inherit from our parents but something we borrow from our children — you will find that sentiment echoed throughout these quotes on nature, conservation, climate, and our responsibility to the world we live in.

“While the Environmental Genome Project does not seek to assign allele frequencies, we are aware of the importance of accurate allele frequency estimates for future epidemiologic studies and the large sample sizes such estimates will require.”

Samuel Wilson

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“I think Captain Cousteau might be the father of the environmental movement.”

Ted Turner

“Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.”

Henry David Thoreau

“The most meaningful engine of change, powerful enough to confront corporate power, may be not so much environmental quality, as the economic development and growth associated with the effort to improve it.”

Barry Commoner

“The real cure for our environmental problems is to understand that our job is to salvage Mother Nature. We are facing a formidable enemy in this field. It is the hunters... and to convince them to leave their guns on the wall is going to be very difficult.”

Jacques Yves Cousteau

“It is important to consider whether the sample size selected by the Environmental Genome Project will provide sufficient power to discover most alleles relevant to gene-environment interactions.”

Samuel Wilson

“I have a private plane. But I fly commercial when I go to environmental conferences.”

Arnold Schwarzenegger

“When a man wantonly destroys one of the works of man we call him a vandal. When he destroys one of the works of god we call him a sportsman.”

Joseph Wood Krutch

“Mark Ruffalo, aka the Incredible Hulk, is the natural gas industry's worst nightmare: a serious, committed activist who is determined to use his star power as a superhero in the hottest movie of the moment to draw attention the environmental and public health risks of fracking.”

Jeff Goodell

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

Leonardo DiCaprio

“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

“We assume that everything's becoming more efficient, and in an immediate sense that's true our lives are better in many ways. But that improvement has been gained through a massively inefficient use of natural resources.”

Paul Hawken

“I am on the board of corporations who contribute both to environmental problems and their solutions. And I am on the NGO side: the Earth Council and other organizations.”

Maurice Strong

“In every case, the environmental hazards were made known only by independent scientists, who were often bitterly opposed by the corporations responsible for the hazards.”

Barry Commoner

“Global markets must be balanced by global values such as respect for human rights and international law, democracy, security and sustainable economic and environmental development.”

Anna Lindh

“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

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