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We have come tardily to the tremendous task of cleaning up our environment.

Gerald Ford

"Don't waste the Earth — it is our Jewel!"

Buzz Aldrin

All our efforts to defeat poverty and pursue sustainable development will be in vain if environmental degradation and natural resource depletion continue unabated.

Kofi Annan

We will look upon the earth and her sister planets as being with us, not for us.

Mary Daly Beyond God the Father (1973)

When the well's dry, we know the worth of water.

Benjamin Franklin

The Materials of wealth are in the earth, in the seas, and in their natural and unaided productions.

Daniel Webster

While the farmer holds the title to the land, actually, it belongs to all the people because civilization itself rests upon the soil.

Thomas Jefferson

In America today you can murder land for private profit. You can leave the corpse for all to see, and nobody calls the cops.

Paul Brooks

It seems to me that we all look at Nature too much, and live with her too little.

Oscar Wilde De Profundis (1897)

Were we and the rest of the back-boned animals to disappear overnight, the rest of the world would get on pretty well.

David Attenborough

I want to make it clear, if there is ever a conflict (between environmental quality and economic growth), I will go for beauty, clean air, water, and landscape.

Jimmy Carter

"The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe around us, the less taste we shall have for destruction."

Rachel Carson

As Earth's most messy, destructive and defective animal, man's record gives him little cause for pride. Our present intellectual superiority is no guarantee of great wisdom or survival power in our genes.

Charles Lindbergh

We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect.

Aldo Leopold

I've often thought that if our zoning boards could be put in charge of botanists, of zoologists and geologists, and people who know about the earth, we would have much more wisdom in such planning than we have when we leave it to the engineers.

William O. Douglas

Earth has undergone radical changes throughout its [4.5] billion year history, and as such, it would be curious if it had just now reached the state that is intrinsically valuable and ought to be preserved in perpetuity.

Ole Martin Moen The ethics of wild animal suffering (2016)

If you disagree with the majority opinion on global warming, you are an enemy of science. There is a secular religion around the world that we can call environmentalism.

Freeman Dyson

It is acceptable to debate whether the mass of the proton changes over time, but is the evidence for global warming really incontrovertible? It is a new religion.

Ivar Giaever

The one factor that you can’t find on a spreadsheet is the willingness of the people in government to lead change, And in Denmark every single one of them is engaged and willing to do whatever it takes to get Denmark to be a leader in electric vehicles.

Shai Agassi

We [in the Republican Party] need to think about the environment. Teddy Roosevelt was a great environmentalist and people forget Reagan was the one who dealt with the ozone layer with the Montreal protocol.

Arnold Schwarzenegger Reddit (2013)

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