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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.

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

Quotes by Aeschylus

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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

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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

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

Quotes by Abhijit Banerjee

Change Quotes

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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.