The Endangered Species Act is the strongest and most effective tool we have to repair the environmental harm that is causing a species to decline.
Sadly, it’s much easier to create a desert than a forest.
Climate change is a terrible problem, and it absolutely needs to be solved. It deserves to be a huge priority.
We have enslaved the rest of the animal creation, and have treated our distant cousins in fur and feathers so badly that beyond doubt, if they were able to formulate a religion, they would depict the Devil in human form.
We’re running the most dangerous experiment in history right now, which is to see how much carbon dioxide the atmosphere… can handle before there is an environmental catastrophe.
It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment.
Green-tech could be the largest economic opportunity of the 21st Century.
Conservation is a state of harmony between men and land.
I think the environment should be put in the category of our national security. Defense of our resources is just as important as defense abroad. Otherwise what is there to defend?
The sooner we get started with alternative energy sources and recognize that fossil fuels makes us less secure as a nation, and more dangerous as a planet, the better off we’ll be.
Birds are indicators of the environment. If they are in trouble, we know we’ll soon be in trouble.
People need to be cautious because anything built by man can be destroyed by Mother Nature.
We are aware only of the empty space in the forest, which only yesterday was filled with trees.
All is connected… no one thing can change by itself.
Population, when unchecked, goes on doubling itself every 25 years or increases in a geometrical ratio.
Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.
Take a course in good water and air; and in the eternal youth of Nature you may renew your own. Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you.
I did not become a vegetarian for my health, I did it for the health of the chickens.
I can find God in nature, in animals, in birds and the environment.
Our world faces a true planetary emergency. I know the phrase sounds shrill, and I know it’s a challenge to the moral imagination.
If we do not permit the earth to produce beauty and joy, it will in the end not produce food, either.
Without the oceans there would be no life on Earth.
In a few decades, the relationship between the environment, resources and conflict may seem almost as obvious as the connection we see today between human rights, democracy and peace.
Nuclear power will help provide the electricity that our growing economy needs without increasing emissions. This is truly an environmentally responsible source of energy.
We are using resources as if we had two planets, not one. There can be no ‘plan B’ because there is no ‘planet B.’
