John F. Kennedy Quotes About Environment

• One person can make a difference, and everyone should try.

  John F. Kennedy

  Inspirational, Bullying, Morning

• The supreme reality of our time is the vulnerability of our planet.

  John F. Kennedy

  Time, Reality, Environmental

  Speech to a joint session of the Dail and the Seanad, Dublin, Ireland, June 28, 1963.

• Never before has man had such a great capacity to control his own environment, to end hunger, poverty and disease, to banish illiteracy and human misery. We have the power to make the best generation of mankind in the history of the world.

  John F. Kennedy

  Men, Hunger Poverty, Volunteer

• Let us not be blind to our differences-but let us also direct attention to our common interests and to the means by which those differences can be resolved. And if we cannot end our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity. For, in the final analysis, our most common link is that we all inhabit this small planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children's future. And we are all mortal.

  John F. Kennedy

  Children, Mean, Air

  American University Commencement Address, delivered 10 June 1963

• I look forward to an America which will not be afraid of grace and beauty, which will protect the beauty of our natural environment, which will preserve the great old American houses and squares and parks of our national past and which will build handsome and balanced cities for our future.

  John F. Kennedy

  Nature, Past, Squares

  Speech at Amherst College, Amherst, Massachusetts, on October 26, 1963. "Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy", p. 817, 1963.

• Our national conservation effort must include the complete spectrum of resources: air, water, and land; fuels, energy, and minerals; soils, forests, and forage; fish and wildlife. Together they make up the world of nature which surrounds us- of the American heritage.

  John F. Kennedy

  Air, Land, Water

  Kennedy, John F. (1963). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1962”, p.177, Best Books on

• Automation does not need to be our enemy. I think machines can make life easier for men, if men do not let the machines dominate them.

  John F. Kennedy

  Men, Thinking, Enemy

  "Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1963".

• There is something that happens when we leave the land and enter the ocean. It's unexpected, the environment feels strangely welcoming. The ocean almost feels like... home.

  John F. Kennedy

  Ocean, Home, Land

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