Famous Quotes

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

Barry Commoner on Environmental

More quotes about Environmental

• "The environment is everything that isn't me."

  Albert Einstein on Environmental

• "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world indeed, it's the only thing that ever has."

  Margaret Mead on Environmental

• "Keep close to Nature's heart... and break clear away, once in awhile, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean."

  John Muir on Environmental

• "Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth."

  Henry David Thoreau on Environmental

• "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 on Environmental

More quotes by Barry Commoner

• "Environmental concern is now firmly embedded in public life: in education, medicine and law in journalism, literature and art."

• "Environmental concern is now firmly embedded in public life: in education, medicine and law in journalism, literature and art."

• "The modern assault on the environment began about 50 years ago, during and immediately after World War II."

• "The environmental crisis arises from a fundamental fault: our systems of production - in industry, agriculture, energy and transportation - essential as they are, make people sick and die."

• "The most meaningful engine of change, powerful enough to confront corporate power, may be not so much environmental quality, as the economic development and growth associated with the effort to improve it."