Environmental Quotes and Sayings

Environmental Quotes and Sayings

Environmental concern is now firmly embedded in public life: in education, medicine and law; in journalism, literature and art. ~ Barry Commoner


Environmental degradation, overpopulation, refugees, narcotics, terrorism, world crime movements, and organized crime are worldwide problems that don't stop at a nation's borders. ~ Warren Christopher

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. ~ Bill Bradley

For me, going vegan was an ethical and environmental decision. I'm doing the right thing by the animals. ~ Alexandra Paul


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. ~ John Muir


Harmony with land is like harmony with a friend; you cannot cherish his right hand and chop off his left. ~ Aldo Leopold

I can find God in nature, in animals, in birds and the environment. ~ Pat Buckley

I consider myself to have been the bridge between the shotgun and the binoculars in bird watching. Before I came along, the primary way to observe birds was to shoot them and stuff them. ~ Roger Tory Peterson

Birds are indicators of the environment. If they are in trouble, we know we'll soon be in trouble. ~ Roger Tory Peterson

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

Conservation is a state of harmony between men and land. ~ Aldo Leopold

Earth Day 1970 was irrefutable evidence that the American people understood the environmental threat and wanted action to resolve it. ~ Barry Commoner