Environment Quotes

"Today we use 100 million barrels of oil every single day. There are no politics to change that. There are no rules to keep that oil in the ground. We can’t save the world by playing by the rules. The rules have to be changed."

- Greta Thunberg

"We are like tenant farmers chopping down the fence around our house for fuel when we should be using Nature’s inexhaustible sources of energy – sun, wind and tide. I’d put my money on the sun and solar energy. What a source of power! I hope we don’t have to wait until oil and coal run out before we tackle that."

- Thomas Edison

"If future generations are to remember us with gratitude rather than contempt, we must leave them something more than the miracles of technology. We must leave them a glimpse of the world as it was in the beginning, not just after we got through with it."

- Lyndon B. Johnson

"But there must be the look ahead, there must be a realization of the fact that to waste, to destroy our natural resources, to skin and exhaust the land instead of using it so as to increase its’ usefulness will result in undermining in the days of our children the very prosperity which we ought by right to hand down to them amplified and developed."

- Theodore Roosevelt

"What is the use of a house if you haven’t got a tolerable planet to put it on?"

- Henry David Thoreau

"The question is whether any civilization can wage relentless war on life without destroying itself, and without losing the right to be called civilized."

- Rachel Carson

"How inappropriate to call this planet Earth when it is clearly Ocean."

- Arthur C. Clarke

"You wouldn’t think you could kill an ocean, would you? But we’ll do it one day. That’s how negligent we are."

- Ian Rankin

"The sea, the great unifier, is man’s only hope. Now, as never before, the old phrase has a literal meaning: We are all in the same boat."

- Jacques Cousteau

"If we wipe out the fish, the oceans are going to die. If the oceans die, we die. We can’t live on this planet with a dead ocean."

- Paul Watson

"We won’t have a society if we destroy the environment."

- Margaret Mead

"A nation that destroys its soils destroys itself."

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

"Water and air, the two essential fluids on which all life depends, have become global garbage cans."

- Jacques Yves Cousteau

"Why use up the forests, which were centuries in the making, and the mines which required ages to lay down if we can get the equivalent of forest and mineral products in the annual growth of the hemp fields?"

- Henry Ford

"I think it's important to get your surroundings as well as yourself into a positive state - meaning surround yourself with positive people, not the kind who are negative and jealous of everything you do."

- Heidi Klum

"The negative side to globalization is that it wipes out entire economic systems and in doing so wipes out the accompanying culture."

- Peter L. Berger

"Perhaps most important for nomads was the belief in the symbiosis that existed between wolf and humans on the steppe. Wolves were an integral part of keeping the balance of nature, ensuring that plagues of rabbits and rodents didn't break out, which in turn protected the all-important pasture for the nomads' herds."

- Tim Cope

"If you aren't fired up with enthusiasm, you'll be fired with enthusiasm."

- Vince Lombardi

"No water, no life. No blue, no green. No sea turtles, no complete marine scene"

- Sylvia Earle

"Planting trees, I myself thought for a long time, was a feel-good thing, a nice but feeble response to our litany of modern-day environmental problems. In the last few years, though, as I have read many dozens of articles and books and interviewed scientists here and abroad, my thinking on the issue has changed. Planting trees may be the single most important ecotechnology that we have to put the broken pieces of our planet back together."

- Jim Robbins

"It is not hard to start a small garden, all you need is a sapling, a planting pot, a small bag of soil, and regular watering. There you go, you helped cooling the earth down by one plant."

- Noora Ahmed Alsuwaidi

"We can't stop the seasons' changing, but we can fix the Earth by replanting it. The world was created in perfect balance, but our wrong actions led to having freezing winters in some regions and burning hot summers in others. This planet that God created was made perfectly; it only needs help to regain its original beautiful state."

- Noora Ahmed Alsuwaidi

"What happens to other species also happens to us."

- Bill Nye

"Snow Leopards are the ambassadors of Asia's high mountains. Conserving these endangered animals and their habitats means managing ecosystems sustainable, adapting to the impacts of climate change and maintaining water security for over a quarter of the world's people."

- Carlos Drews

"Diseased Nature oftentimes breaks forth In strange eruptions."

- William Shakespeare

"We must learn to live with nature, rather than against it."

- Richard Rogers

"Sustainability is not about doing less harm. It’s about doing more good."

- Jochen Zeitz

"There is no separation between architecture and nature; there is a connection."

- Toyo Ito

"We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children."

"Sea turtles remind us that the environment is a life support system we are all connected to"

- Unknown