"The only way forward, if we are going to improve the quality of the environment, is to get everybody involved."
"There is no place where we can safely store worn-out reactors or their garbage. No place!"
"They claim this mother of ours, the Earth, for their own use, and fence their neighbors away from her, and deface her with their buildings and their refuse."
"Under the Environmental Protection Agency's Energy Star Program, homes are independently verified to be measurably more energy efficient than average houses."
"Unless we keep this planet healthy, everything else is for naught."
"We are now heading down a centuries-long path toward increasing the productivity of our natural capital - the resource systems upon which we depend to live - instead of our human capital."
"We assume that everything's becoming more efficient, and in an immediate sense that's true; our lives are better in many ways. But that improvement has been gained through a massively inefficient use of natural resources."
"We don't have to sacrifice a strong economy for a healthy environment."
"We learned that economic growth and environmental protection can and should go hand in hand."
"We must return to nature and nature's god."
"We won't have a society if we destroy the environment."
"When a man wantonly destroys one of the works of man we call him a vandal. When he destroys one of the works of god we call him a sportsman."
"When we realize we can make a buck cleaning up the environment, it will be done!"
"When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe."
"Why are ecologists and environmentalists so feared and hated? This is because in part what they have to say is new to the general public, and the new is always alarming."
"Why has it seemed that the only way to protect the environment is with heavy-handed government regulation?"
"Within 10 years it will be impossible to travel to the North Pole by dog team. There will be too much open water."
"You may be able to fool the voters, but not the atmosphere."
"By polluting clear water with slime you will never find good drinking water."
"Conservation is a state of harmony between men and land."
"Earth Day 1970 was irrefutable evidence that the American people understood the environmental threat and wanted action to resolve it."
"Environmental concern is now firmly embedded in public life: in education, medicine and law; in journalism, literature and art."
"Environmental degradation, overpopulation, refugees, narcotics, terrorism, world crime movements, and organized crime are worldwide problems that don't stop at a nation's borders."
"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."
"For me, going vegan was an ethical and environmental decision. I'm doing the right thing by the animals."
"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."
"Harmony with land is like harmony with a friend; you cannot cherish his right hand and chop off his left."
"I can find God in nature, in animals, in birds and the environment."
"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."
"I did not become a vegetarian for my health, I did it for the health of the chickens."