Quotes on Environmental Pollution

When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.

We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children

It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment.

We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place.

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.

The use of solar energy has not been opened up because the oil industry does not own the sun.

Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together. All things connect.

If ordinary people really knew that consciousness and not matter is the link that connects us with each other and the world, then their views about war and peace, environmental pollution, social justice, religous values, and all other human endeavors would change radically.

You go into a community and they will vote 80 percent to 20 percent in favor of a tougher Clean Air Act, but if you ask them to devote 20 minutes a year to having their car emissions inspected, they will vote 80 to 20 against it. We are a long way in this country from taking individual responsibility for the environmental problem.