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

    Business Week, June 18, 1990.
  • If ordinary people really knew that consciousness and not matter is the link that connects us with each other and the world, then their views about war and peace, environmental pollution, social justice, religous values, and all other human endeavors would change radically.

    War   Views   People  
    Amit Goswami (1995). “The Self-Aware Universe”, p.8, Penguin
  • In the rich world, the environmental situation has improved dramatically. In the United States, the most important environmental indicator, particulate air pollution, has been cut by more than half since 1955, rivers and coastal waters have dramatically improved, and forests are increasing.

    Cutting   Rivers   Air  
    "The Future of the World" by Bjorn Lomborg, www.esquire.com. April 21, 2009.
  • It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment.

    "Playboy Interview: Ansel Adams". Interview with David Sheff, Playboy (p. 226), May 1, 1983.
  • The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river.

    Dirty   Men   Rivers  
  • Environmental pollution is a blight on people's quality of life and a trouble that weighs on their hearts.

    Life   Heart   People  
    "China sets 7 per cent growth target, but challenges lie ahead". "PM", www.abc.net.au. March 5, 2015.
  • The use of solar energy has not been opened up because the oil industry does not own the sun.

    Fun   Green World   Oil  
  • The earth we abuse and the living things we kill will, in the end, take their revenge; for in exploiting their presence we are diminishing our future.

    Marya Mannes (1958). “More in Anger”
  • We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place.

    "Günter Grass in quotes: 12 of the best", www.theguardian.com. April 13, 2015.
  • We experience ourselves our thoughts and feelings as something separate from the rest. A kind of optical delusion of consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us.

    Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.15, St. Martin's Press
  • Our environmental problems originate in the hubris of imagining ourselves as the central nervous system or the brain of nature. We're not the brain, we are a cancer on nature.

  • 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?

  • Water and air, the two essential fluids on which all life depends, have become global garbage cans.

    Ocean   Air   Aquariums  
  • Keep close to Nature's heart... and break clear away, once in awhile, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean.

  • 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.

    A Sand County Almanac foreword (1949)
  • Environmental pollution is an incurable disease. It can only be prevented.

    "At 90, an Environmentalist From the '70s Still Has Hope". Interview With Thomas Vinciguerra, www.nytimes.com. June 19, 2007.
  • Today the great gift of God's Creation is exposed to serious dangers and lifestyles which can degrade it. Environmental pollution is making particularly unsustainable the lives of the poor of the world ... we must pledge ourselves to take care of creation and to share its resources in solidarity.

  • Contempt for science could perhaps depend on the fact that, science hasn't been able to solve any of our basic problems, for example the environmental pollution or the problems with HIV and AIDS. This is the worst disease of our time, and scientists are lost. I believe that many people are disappointed with science when the answers we need are not delivered.

    "Björn Ulvaeus Speaks on Humanism". iheu.org. July 14, 2006.
  • We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us.

    Aldo Leopold (1989). “A Sand County Almanac, and Sketches Here and There”, p.8, Oxford University Press, USA
  • You show me pollution and I will show you people who are not paying their own way, people who are stealing from the public, people who are getting the public to pay their costs of production. All environmental pollution is a subsidy.

  • We should stop the non-scientific, pseudo-scientific, and anti-scientific nonsense emanating from the right wing, and start demanding immediate action to reduce global warming and prevent catastrophic climate change that may be on our horizon now. We must not let the [Bush] Administration distort science and rewrite and manipulate scientific reports in other areas. We must not let it turn the Environmental Protection Agency into the Environmental Pollution Agency.

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

    Time   Future   Kids  
  • Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we've been ignorant of their value.

  • 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.

    Life   Lonely   Nature  
  • Today we're dumping 70 million tons of global-warming pollution into the environment, and tomorrow we will dump more, and there is no effective worldwide response. Until we start sharply reducing global-warming pollution, I will feel that I have failed.

  • Something will have gone out of us as a people if we ever let the remaining wilderness be destroyed; if we permit the last virgin forests to be turned into comic books and plastic cigarette cases; if we drive the few remaining members of the wild species into zoos or to extinction; if we pollute the last clear air and dirty the last clean streams and push our paved roads through the last of the silence . . .

    Zoos   Dirty   Book  
    Wallace Earle Stegner (2007). “The Selected Letters of Wallace Stegner”, Counterpoint
  • The favorite statistic is that the U.S. contains 6 to 7% of the world population but consumes more than half the world's resources and is responsible for that fraction of the total environmental pollution. But this statistic hides another vital fact: that not everyone in the U.S. is so affluent.

  • There's so much pollution in the air now that if it weren't for our lungs there'd be no place to put it all.

    Fun   Air   Earth Day  
    "Waiting to Inhale: Don't Take a Breath Without the Report From Our Air Pollution Control District". The San Diego Union-Tribune, January 31, 2008.
  • People 'over-produce' pollution because they are not paying for the costs of dealing with it.

  • You go into a community and they will vote 80 percent to 20 percent in favor of a tougher Clean Air Act, but if you ask them to devote 20 minutes a year to having their car emissions inspected, they will vote 80 to 20 against it. We are a long way in this country from taking individual responsibility for the environmental problem.

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