Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them
— Bill Vaughn
The highest wisdom has but one science - the science of the whole - the science explaining the whole creation and man's place in it
— Leo Tolstoy
At least 150,000 anthropogenic or human made chemicals at a total that increases by 2,000 each year end up in the oceans
— Kevin Brown, Durham University, England
..put the environmental lobby out of business....There is no greater imperative....If the petroleum industry is to survive, it must render the environmental lobby superfluous, an anachronism
— Bob Williams (Advisor to the gas and oil industry)
You must turn the public against environmentalists or you will lose your environmental battle as surely as the U.S. Timber industry has lost theirs
— Ron Arnold (Industry Consultant)
If sunbeams were weapons of war, we would have had solar energy long ago
— George Porter
I think that I shall never see, A poem lovely as a tree
— Alfred Joyce Kilmer
Population growth is the primary source of environmental damage
— Jacques Cousteau
The big corporations, our clients, are scared shitless of the environmental movement.....They sense that there's a majority out there and that the emotions are all on the other side-if they can be heard. They think the politicians are going to yield up to the emotions. I think the corporations are wrong about that. I think the companies will have to give in only at insignificant levels. Because the companies are too strong, they're the establishment. The environmentalists are going to have to be like the mob in the square in Romania before they prevail
— Frank Mankiewic (Senior executive at transnational firm, Hill and Knowlton)
Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell
— Edward Abbey
There is a sufficiency in the world for man's need but not for man's greed
— Gandhi
The growth of ecological awareness in industrialized countries may be one of the last internal obstacles to the complete hegemony of transnational corporate capitalism
— Brian Tokar
Only when the last tree has been cut down, Only when the last river has been poisoned, Only when the last fish has been caught, Only then will you find that money cannot be eaten
— Cree Indian Prophecy
In wildness is the preservation of the world
— Henry David Thoreau
Climate change is the greatest market failure the world has ever seen