Quotes and Environmentalists

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"It is our collective and individual responsibility... to preserve and tend the world which we all live in ." - Dalai Lama

"The environment and the economy are really both sides of the same coin. If we cannot sustain the environment, we cannot sustain ourselves." - Wangari Maathai

"There is such thing as 'away', when we throw things away it must go somewhere." - Annie Leonard

"I don't want to protect the environment, I want to create a world where the environment doesn't need protecting"

"We make the world we live in and shape our own environment" - Orison Swett Marden

"It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment." - Ansel Adams

"Imagine a fish without water. Can it survive? Now imagine a life without trees. Can men survive?"

"We are all connected; to each other, biologically, to the earth, chemically, to the rest of the universe automatically" - Neil Degrasse Tyson

"No challenge poses a greater threat to future generations than climate change" - President Obama

"Every single person on this Earth has the power to change the world" - Emma Thompson

"The climate crisis has already been solved. We already have the facts and solutions. All we have have to do is wake up and change." - Greta Thunberg

"Twenty-five years ago people were excused for not knowing much, or not doing much, about climate change. Today we have no excuse." - Desmond Tutu

"Climate change is real, its happening right now. It is the most urgent threat facing our entire species, and we need to work collectively together and stop procrastinating" - Leonardo DiCaprio

"Climate change is no longer a far-off problem; it is happening here, it is happening now." Barack Obama.

"Climate change, if unchecked, is an urgent threat to health, food supplies, biodiversity and livelihoods across the globe" - John F. Kerry.

 "People need to stop financing denial of climate change." - Al Gore

"If we don't take climate action, the collapse of our civilisations and the extinction of much of the natural world is on the horizon." Sir David Attenborough 

"I am often asked whether I believe in global warming. I now just reply reply with the question: Do you believe in gravity?" - Neil deGrasse Tyson

"Climate change is the environmental challenge of this generation, and it is imperative that we act before it's too late." - John Delaney

"We can sit back, do nothing, and watch our planet be destroyed. Or we can take action, become advocates, and start making lifestyle choices which are kinder to the people and the planet." - Kira Simpson

"He that plants trees, loves others besides himself."

"We do not inherit the Earth from our ancestor, we borrow it from our children." - Native American Proverb.

"Try leaving Earth a better place that you arrived." - Sidney Sheldon

"We never know the worth of water until the well is dry."

"What I stand on, is what I stand for." - Wendell Berry

"The future will either be green or not at all." - Bob Brown

"Climate change is about something than justice, it is solidarity. Human solidarity" - Bill McKibben

"We learned that economic growth and environmental protection can and should go hand in hand." - Christopher Dodd 

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