Quotes about Environment

We all love the environment, but we have placed creatures above people. A rat is a rat.

and our seeming disregard for its effect on our already-changing climate—in an entirely new light.

A person has to be thoroughly disgusted with the way things are to find the motivation to set out on the Christian way. As long as we think the next election might eliminate crime and establish justice or another scientific breakthrough might save the environment or another pay raise might push us over the edge of anxiety into a life of tranquility, we are not likely to risk the arduous uncertainties of the life of faith.

Every time I have some moment on a seashore, or in the mountains, or sometimes in a quiet forest, I think this is why the environment has to be preserved.

Edgar Wayburn has worked to preserve the most breath-taking examples of the American landscape. In fact, over the course of more than a half-century, both as President of the Sierra Club and as a private citizen, he has saved more of our wilderness than any person alive.

Climate change is a terrible problem, and it absolutely needs to be solved. It deserves to be a huge priority.

It's really kind of cool to have solar panels on your roof.

The care of the Earth is our most ancient and most worthy, and after all our most pleasing responsibility. To cherish what remains of it and to foster its renewal is our only hope.

Without electricity, the air would rot.

For in the true nature of things, if we rightly consider, every green tree is far more glorious than if it were made of gold and silver.

It is said that in some countries trees will grow, but will bear no fruit because there is no winter there.

The Lorax: Which way does a tree fall? The Once-ler: Uh, down? The Lorax: A tree falls the way it leans. Be careful which way you lean.