Quotes about Environment
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
People who minister worldwide to protect and conserve the environment are of no lower status than those who minister to plant churches.
— Leonard Sweet
The choice to 'do nothing' in response to the mounting evidence is actually a choice to continue and even accelerate the reckless environmental destruction that is creating the catastrophe at hand.
— Al Gore
The ecological crisis is a moral issue.
— Pope John Paul II
In losing stewardship we lose fellowship; we become outcasts from the great neighborhood of creation.
— Wendell Berry
Every American expects and deserves clean air, and then we act on that belief, then we will set an example for the rest of the world to follow.
— George H. W. Bush
We are facing a tipping point of environmental crisis unprecedented in human history and our very survival is dependent on protecting nature.
— Leonardo DiCaprio
A different world can be created or re-created-but not until we stop enshrining the economic values of invisible labor, infinite and obsessive growth, and a slow environmental suicide.
— Gloria Steinem
Birds are extremely valued as indicators of overall environmental health. If there's a problem in a wild bird population, it's indicative that something went wrong.
— Jim Elliot
The "hole in the moral ozone" is really what's behind the hole in the ozone.
— Leonard Sweet
Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren't used to an environment where excellence is expected.
— Steve Jobs
Have you ever thought that the only ugly things in this Cove are man's fault, while the beautiful things are God's work? Look at those mountains.
— Catherine Marshall