Environment Quotes: Inspiring Words for a Greener Planet

"It's not just the effect of technology on the environment, on religion, on the economic structure, on society, on politics, etc. It's that everything now exists in technology to the point where technology is the new and comprehensive host of nature of life"

Godfrey Reggio, Director

"If you're old, don't try to change yourself, change your environment"

B. F. Skinner, Psychologist

"I had never been able to get a car that said how much I cared about the environment until I drove electric"

Alexandra Paul, Actress

"The war being fought in Afghanistan and Iraq is bringing about a fundamental change to the environment that has given rise and power to the extremists who export terrorism"

Craig L. Thomas, Politician

"While expanding market access for American industry, financial markets and farmers is critical, I believe it needs to be done responsibly, accounting for the treatment and protection of workers and the environment"

Mark Udall, Politician

"Man is a child of his environment"

Shinichi Suzuki, Musician

"The environment is everything that isn't me"

Albert Einstein, Physicist

"Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions"

Albert Einstein, Physicist

"The environment should act as an aquarium which reflects the ideas, ethics, attitudes, and culture of the people who live in it"

Loris Malaguzzi, Teacher

"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"

Wangari Maathai, Activist

"We need to promote development that does not destroy our environment"

Wangari Maathai, Activist

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

Margaret Mead, Scientist

"Nature favors those organisms which leave the environment in better shape for their progeny to survive"

James Lovelock, Scientist

"When a business group tells us there is nothing wrong with the environment, naturally they may have good arguments, but we are also sceptical, because we know that they have an interest in these things"

Bjorn Lomborg, Scientist

"If you're not adapting to the very rapidly changing environment, if you can't think creatively, you lose big in this society because there are very few jobs for you left"

Robert Sternberg, Educator

"Our environment, the world in which we live and work, is a mirror of our attitudes and expectations"

Earl Nightingale, Writer

"If you're going to be at a job environment, you should love it. You shouldn't do it just for money. You should do it because you love it. And the money comes naturally"

Debbi Fields, Businesswoman

"All the things that human beings suffer from are how their environment treats them, and how the elements of their planet affects their mind and body - like radiation, cancer, and all"

Ornette Coleman, Musician

"But in a turbulent environment the change is so widespread that it just routes around any kind of central authority. So it is best to manage the bottom-up change rather than try to institute it from the top down"

Kevin Kelly, Editor

"All the writers and producers around us that gave us the environment where we could play. They were able to provide us with a place where we could take chances to play with things, go against the grain and do things that people don't always do"

Matthew Ashford, Actor

"We don't have to sacrifice a strong economy for a healthy environment"

Dennis Weaver, Actor

"I think my perception of my own life is different and the fact that Lauren and myself are together. I've never felt this free or happy and so that permeates onto my onstage persona and to my working environment"

Rick Allen, Musician

"On the issues that I care deeply about - the environment, Roe vs. Wade, the war in Iraq, with no weapons of mass destruction, the tax cuts that are now leading to deficits, I've got some deep issues with the president"

Lincoln Chafee, Politician

"Once the image was in the digital environment, one of the problems was, we had no means to reproduce the color spectrum, grey scale, and contrast that film produces, without converting the digital file to film, evaluating it, then going back and changing the digital image"

John Dykstra, Scientist

"The gays like 'Project Runway' because it's a fashion, and the gays are into fashion and into design. It's a creative industry, and most of the gays are pretty creative, in general. That's just like the culture. We're not all into politics necessarily. We're more into the creative environment. I also think Heidi is a big draw. The boys love Heidi and think she's so fabulous. I just think it's a glitzy, fun show, and there are also always lots of gay boys on it, and, you know, that's fun"

Christian Siriano, Designer

"I think it's going to deliver on the promises we've said it's going to and it is going to be the most successful product ever to come into the handheld environment, and it just happens to have a number of different functions"

Ian Jackson, Scientist

"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?"

Robert Redford, Actor

"All of my work is based on nature. I grew up in a rural environment and living in the Bay Area allows for immediate access to wonderful natural environs. Basically nature is my Genus Loci, or the place where my spirit resides"

Judith Anderson, Actress

"The pressure to compete, the fear somebody else will make the splash first, creates a frenzied environment in which a blizzard of information is presented and serious questions may not be raised"

Carl Bernstein, Journalist

"We must learn to understand humanity better so that we can create an environment that is more beneficial to people, more rewarding, more pleasant to experience"

John Portman, Architect

"Organic buildings are the strength and lightness of the spiders' spinning, buildings qualified by light, bred by native character to environment, married to the ground"

Frank Lloyd Wright, Architect

"I think that being in an environment is a much richer experience than just working on a soundstage"

Kathy Bates, Actress

"Salad bars are like a restaurant's lungs. They soak up the impurities and bacteria in the environment, leaving you with much cleaner air to enjoy"

Doug Coupland, Author

"It isn't pollution that's harming the environment. It's the impurities in our air and water that are doing it"

Dan Quayle, Vice President

"The spoken word was the first technology by which man was able to let go of his environment in order to grasp it in a new way"

Marshall McLuhan, Sociologist

"A strong, successful man is not the victim of his environment. He creates favorable conditions. His own inherent force and energy compel things to turn out as he desires"

Orison Swett Marden, Writer

"Your outlook upon life, your estimate of yourself, your estimate of your value are largely colored by your environment. Your whole career will be modified, shaped, molded by your surroundings, by the character of the people with whom you come in contact every day"

Orison Swett Marden, Writer

"Why should we think upon things that are lovely? Because thinking determines life. It is a common habit to blame life upon the environment. Environment modifies life but does not govern life. The soul is stronger than its surroundings"

William James, Philosopher

"Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren't used to an environment where excellence is expected"

Steve Jobs, Businessman

"I am working to make sure we don't only protect the environment, we also improve governance"

Wangari Maathai, Activist

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