quotations about environment
My world, my Earth is a ruin. A planet spoiled by the human species. We multiplied and fought and gobbled until there was nothing left, and then we died. We controlled neither appetite nor violence; we did not adapt. We destroyed ourselves. But we destroyed the world first.
URSULA K. LE GUIN
The Dispossessed
Plans to protect air and water, wilderness and wildlife are in fact plans to protect man.
STEWART UDALL
1976: Agenda for Tomorrow
The environment is the infrastructure of our communities. As a nation, as a civilization, it's our obligation to create communities for our children that provide them with opportunities for dignity and good health. When we destroy nature, we diminish ourselves and impoverish our children. We ignore that at our own peril.
BOBBY KENNEDY
O Magazine, Feb. 2007
All our efforts to defeat poverty and pursue sustainable development will be in vain if environmental degradation and natural resource depletion continue unabated.
KOFI ANNAN
2005 report for the United Nations 60th anniversary summit
If you put good apples into a bad situation, you'll get bad apples.
PHILIP ZIMBARDO
"A Conversation with Philip G. Zimbardo: Finding Hope in Knowing the Universal Capacity for Evil", The New York Times, Apr. 3, 2007
Pleasure is Nature’s test, her sign of approval. When man is happy, he is in harmony with himself and his environment.
OSCAR WILDE
The Soul of Man Under Socialism
I want to make it clear, if there is ever a conflict (between environmental quality and economic growth), I will go for beauty, clean air, water, and landscape.
JIMMY CARTER
The New York Times, September 19, 1976
It is time for a sustainable energy policy which puts consumers, the environment, human health, and peace first.
DENNIS KUCINICH
speech, Sep. 27, 2005
When environment changes, there must be a corresponding change in life.
CHARLES LINDBERGH
The Wartime Journals
Perhaps catastrophe is the natural human environment, and even though we spend a good deal of energy trying to get away from it, we are programmed for survival amid catastrophe.
GERMAINE GREER
Sex and Destiny
Man is the control experiment of heredity and environment; and since his heredity controls him, he tries to control his environment.
EVAN ESAR
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