1. Good environmental policy is good economic policy.-Bernie Sanders
2. With environmental progress continuing, environmental consciousness high among the american people and the environmental movement increasingly viewed as an obstacle to further environmental progress, both earth day and the environmental movement may have run their course.-David A. Ridenour
3. The potential in many environmental issues is that if you undertake corrective action without appropriate understanding of the problem, then you wind up doing more harm than good.-Hugh Ross
4. Let the mountains talk, let the river run. Once more, and forever.-David R Brower
5. Environmental concern is now firmly embedded in public life: in education, medicine and law; in journalism, literature and art.-Barry Commoner
6. Environmental quality was drastically improved while economic activity grew by the simple expedient of removing lead from gasoline which prevented it from entering the environment.-Barry Commoner
7. I do believe very strongly that all of us and all of the other things in the context of our planet with mother nature, all of these things absolutely have a profound effect.-Kiefer Sutherland
8. The love for all living creatures is the most noble attribute of man.-Charles Darwin
9. Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.-Albert Einstein
10. Curing environmental ills requires not a stance outside nature, but a stance within nature, a role not as onlooker without, but as an actor within.-Valerius Geist
11. Our environment, the world in which we live and work, is a mirror of our attitudes and expectations.-Earl Nightingale
12. The re-establishment of an ecological balance depends on the ability of society to counteract the progressive materialization of values. The ecological balance cannot be re-established unless we recognize again that only persons have ends and only persons can work towards them.-Ivan Illich
13. People need to be cautious because anything built by man can be destroyed by mother nature.-Russel Honore
14. Our challenge isn’t so much to teach children about the natural world but to find ways to nurture and sustain the instinctive connections they already carry.-Terry Krautwurst
15. The only way you can estimate environmental influences is by measuring them.-Richard Bentall
16. Environmental pollution is an incurable disease. It can only be prevented.-Barry Commoner
17. I really believe in the environmental movement right now it only takes a little effort to make a big difference.-Brooke Burke
18. 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
19. The use of sea and air is common to all; neither can a title to the ocean belong to any people or private persons, forasmuch as neither nature nor public use and custom permit any possession therof.-Elizabeth I
20. Environmental issues are on everyone’s mind. It’s part of our culture now and I can only applaud and laud anyone who is doing what they can and raising awareness.-Keanu Reeves
21. Our environmental problems originate in the hubris of imagining ourselves as the central nervous system or the brain of nature. We’re not the brain, we are a cancer on nature.-David Foreman
22. I don’t see this planet being they’re talking about how they’re turning around the environmental problems here, but I think it’s already too late.-Ace Frehley
23. All our environmental problems become easier to solve with fewer people and harder and ultimately impossible to solve with ever more people.-David Attenborough
24. Earth provides enough to satisfy every man’s needs, but not every man’s greed.-Mahatma Gandhi
25. Environmental challenges have the power to deny equality of opportunity and hold back the progress of communities.-Lisa P. Jackson
26. We learned that economic growth and environmental protection can and should go hand in hand.-Christopher Dodd
27. The real cure for our environmental problems is to understand that our job is to salvage mother nature. We are facing a formidable enemy in this field. It is the hunters and to convince them to leave their guns on the wall is going to be very difficult.-Jacques Yves Cousteau
28. On the environmental front there’s concern about global warming and high levels of carbon dioxide, and trees take in CO2 and store carbon.-Clive Anderson
29. Plans to protect air and water, wilderness and wildlife are in fact plans to protect man.-Stewart Udall
30. We must not put pressure on people, but by providing information on the population and the environments, and appropriate contraception for everyone doctors should help bring family size into the arena of environmental ethics, analogous to avoiding patio heaters and high carbon cars.-John Guillebaud