"By polluting clear water with slime you will never find good drinking water." - AeschylusTweet
"From year to year, environmental changes are incremental and often barely register in our lives, but from evolutionary or geological perspectives, what is happening is explosive change." - David SuzukiTweet
"Toxins love to get you while you're young. Lead, mercury, secondhand smoke and sundry other environmental nasties do a lot more damage when tissue is immature, vulnerable and growing than when it's mature and comparatively fixed." - Jeffrey KlugerTweet
"No one does a better, cleaner, or environmental friendlier, than the United States, when it comes to drilling for oil, gas, coal, oil refineries and fish friendly hydroelectric." - David PrattTweet
"Economists treat economics as if it is a pure science divorced from the facts of life. The result of this false accountancy is a willful confusion under cover of which industry wreaks its havoc scot-free and ignores the environmental cost." - Vivienne WestwoodTweet
"The most meaningful engine of change, powerful enough to confront corporate power, may be not so much environmental quality, as the economic development and growth associated with the effort to improve it." - Barry CommonerTweet
"Environmental protection doesn't happen in a vacuum. You can't separate the impact on the environment from the impact on our families and communities." - Jim ClyburnTweet
"It is extremely important to me that the social and environmental issues associated with the production of fashion clothing are addressed." - Bonnie WrightTweet
"In the rich world, the environmental situation has improved dramatically. In the United States, the most important environmental indicator, particulate air pollution, has been cut by more than half since 1955, rivers and coastal waters have dramatically improved, and forests are increasing." - Bjorn LomborgTweet
"Harmony with land is like harmony with a friend you cannot cherish his right hand and chop off his left." - Aldo LeopoldTweet