Environment Quotes

"Putting our ecosystem in great peril is certainly not a part of Chinese culture that I know."

"No one is an environmentalist by birth. It is only your path, your life, your travels that awaken you."

"I never lose an opportunity to speak about my obsession: humankind and the environment."

"A pound invested in energy efficiency buys seven times more energy solution than a pound invested in nuclear power."

"The kids are always so passionate. I feel like they are our protectors. They care so much about recycling and climate change."

"We have an energy crisis but we continue to consume as if there will be a magical solution."

"It's the little things citizens do. That's what will make the difference. My little thing is planting trees."

Wangari Maathai

"Only if we understand, will we care. Only if we care, will we help. Only if we help, shall all be saved."

Jane Goodall

"Until you dig a hole, you plant a tree, you water it and make it survive, you haven't done a thing. You are just talking."

Wangari Maathai

"We need to explore our own deserts and land, which need to be healed and managed on the planet itself. We need to explore deep within more than without."

Sonam Wangchuk

"We have to recall the image of the planet from outer space: a single entity in which air, water, and continents are interconnected. That is our home."

David Suzuki

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

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

Margaret Mead

"The environment is where we all meet; where we all have a mutual interest; it is the one thing all of us share."

Lady Bird Johnson

"The greatest threat to our planet is the belief that someone else will save it."

Robert Swan

“We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us.”

“I definitely want to get into environmental science and environmental politics, learning a lot more and preserving what's left of the world. That's such a sacred circle to be in.”

“Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.”

“Nature doesn't need people; people need nature. Nature would survive the extinction of the human being and go on just fine, but human culture, human beings, cannot survive without nature.”

“The planet isn't going anywhere. We are!”

“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.”

"What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make."

Jane Goodall

"The greatest danger to our future is apathy."

Jane Goodall

"The truth is: the natural world is changing. And we are totally dependent on that world."

David Attenborough

“The environment is everything that isn't me.”

Albert Einstein