Environmental Quotes

People blame their environment. There is only one person to blame - and only one - themselves.

I don't see this planet being... they're talking about how they're turning around the environmental problems here, but I think it's already too late.

When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.

You may be able to fool the voters, but not the atmosphere.

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.

A variety of factors contribute to the price of gasoline in the United States. These factors include worldwide supply, demand and competition for crude oil, taxes, regional differences in access to gasoline supplies and environmental regulations.

The position I took at the time was that we hadn't really examined any of the potential environmental consequences of introducing genetically modified organisms.

God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fools.

I think the government has to reposition environment on top of their national and international priorities.

We created the Cabinet Committee on the Environment to review the environmental implications of all government initiatives. I think what made us successful was the fact that it was a sustained approach. We did something new every year.

I firmly believe that we can have a healthy environment and a sustainable timber industry.

Pushing production out of America to nations without our environmental standards increases global environmental risks.

The Body Shop Foundation is run by our staff and supports social activism and environmental activism. We don't tend to support big agencies.

The only way forward, if we are going to improve the quality of the environment, is to get everybody involved.

Unless we keep this planet healthy, everything else is for naught.

There is no question that photography has played a major role in the environmental movement.

These days, most nature photographers are deeply committed to the environmental message.

Journey with me to a true commitment to our environment. Journey with me to the serenity of leaving to our children a planet in equilibrium.

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

A primary function of art and thought is to liberate the individual from the tyranny of his culture in the environmental sense and to permit him to stand beyond it in an autonomy of perception and judgment.

A very Faustian choice is upon us: whether to accept our corrosive and risky behavior as the unavoidable price of population and economic growth, or to take stock of ourselves and search for a new environmental ethic.

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.

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.

In today's world, it is no longer unimaginable to think that business can operate - and even thrive - in an environmentally-friendly manner.

My idea of an amusement park story is getting adventurers to go tour environmental disaster areas. After all, if the entire Great Barrier Reef gets killed, which seems like an extremely lively possibility, what are you going to do with all that rotting limestone?