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Environmental Quotes

On awareness, activism, and the politics neither can escape.

One quote points to women in Kenya walking for hours to find water and firewood as the first to feel environmental degradation, grounding the topic in daily life rather than policy debate. For related themes, see our Earth quotes.

By polluting clear water with slime you will never find good drinking water.

Quotes by Aeschylus

Unless action is taken soon - unless we can display the same vision of that earlier period - we will lose the treasure of California's open space and environmental beauty.

Quotes by Adam Schiff

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.

Quotes by Ace Frehley

It is undeniable that the looming environmental crisis is partly the consequence of population growth.

Quotes by Abhijit Banerjee

Change Quotes

I do wonder if it's my responsibility to spread a message of environmental awareness or political awareness or just, like, don't be racist or whatever, but I don't want to be the person who's like, 'Everyone be vegan forever!'

Quotes by Zazie Beetz

GM has never been about feeding the world or tackling environmental problems. It is and has always been about control of the global food economy by a tiny handful of giant corporations. It's not wicked to question that process. It...

Quotes by Zac Goldsmith

We always hear from newspapers that while people understand the environmental challenge, they are unwilling to stomach the solutions. The trouble is, we only ever hear about the solutions from the media, and for whatever reason, they are almost always...

Quotes by Zac Goldsmith

Politicians usually get the blame for dragging their feet on environmental issues. And fair enough. Most of them do just that. But the blame isn't theirs alone. For politicians afraid of losing votes, a bristling media waiting to transform good...

Quotes by Zac Goldsmith

By uploading 40 years of 'Ecologist' editions online, we will be creating the world's most extensive ecological archive. 'The Ecologist' will continue to set the environmental and political agenda here and abroad.

Quotes by Zac Goldsmith

Earth Quotes

Politics colours everything, and anyone who wants change is necessarily political. As an environmental campaigner more or less since I left school in the early '90s, I have always been involved in lobbying, campaigning and pushing for changes.

Quotes by Zac Goldsmith

'Green' is likely to be a big issue in the 2008 U.S. presidential election - largely in response to George Bush's suicidal refusal to engage with environmental issues.

Quotes by Zac Goldsmith

Every drop in the ocean counts.

Quotes by Yoko Ono

No one is an environmentalist by birth. It is only your path, your life, your travels that awaken you.

Quotes by Yann Arthus-Bertrand

I have American in-laws, and I care about the environment. We don't use disposable diapers, which, of course, creates an environmental problem of our own.

Quotes by Yakov Smirnoff

Energy Quotes

The discrimination of women and girls goes to the core of any and all analyses of the world's economic, political, and environmental problems.

Quotes by Winnie Byanyima

We have enslaved the rest of the animal creation, and have treated our distant cousins in fur and feathers so badly that beyond doubt, if they were able to formulate a religion, they would depict the Devil in human form.

Quotes by William Inge

I believe very strongly that corporations could and should be a major force for resolving social and environmental concerns in the twenty-first century.

Quotes by William Clay Ford, Jr.

There's a rising tide of environmental awareness and activism among consumers that's going to continue to swell in the 21st century. Smart companies will get ahead of that wave and ride it to success and prosperity. Those that don't are...

Quotes by William Clay Ford, Jr.

If we bestow but a very little attention to the economy of the animal creation, we shall find manifest examples of premeditation, perseverance, resolution, and consumate artifice, in order to effect their purpose.

Quotes by William Bartram

Environmental Protection Quotes

Within 10 years it will be impossible to travel to the North Pole by dog team. There will be too much open water.

Quotes by Will Steger

Frequently Asked Questions

Is there a quote about women being the first victims of environmental degradation?
Yes: "In Kenya women are the first victims of environmental degradation, because they are the ones who walk for hours looking for water, who fetch firewood, who provide food for their families."
Is there a quote about weighing environmental awareness against other responsibilities?
Yes, one wonders aloud whether it's their responsibility to spread "a message of environmental awareness or political awareness or just, like, don't be racist or whatever" - a candid, informal reflection on which causes to speak up for.
Is there a quote criticizing a U.S. president's environmental record?
Yes, one calls the issue likely to loom large in the 2008 U.S. election "largely in response to George Bush's suicidal refusal to engage with environmental issues." This is presented as that speaker's own political opinion, not a fact this page verifies.
Is there a quote from someone describing themselves as an environmental campaigner?
Yes: "Politics colours everything, and anyone who wants change is necessarily political." It comes from someone describing their own history as an environmental campaigner since leaving school in the early '90s.
Where can I find more related quotes?

Others describe environmental campaigning as unavoidably political, and one writer wonders aloud whether spreading environmental awareness can ever really be separated from political awareness at all. Explore more with our Change quotes or dig deeper into Environmental Protection.