Concern For The Environment Quotes

• Religious leaders could play a significant role in making explicit the connections between current concerns for the environment and age-old teachings about our dependence on the natural world, and the dangers of greed and excess

  Ian Christie

  Religious, Teaching, Future

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• There is, however, a moral basis for the vegetarian diet for which the indeterminate value of an animal's life takes on irrelevance. And that moral basis is a concern for the environment, a value as absolute as the value we all place on human life, since humanity will not survive for long on a poisoned planet. To be an environmentalist who happens to eat meat is like being a philanthropist who doesn't happen to give to charity.

  Howard Lyman

  Animal, Irrelevance, Vegetarian Diet

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• It was truly an astonishing grassroots explosion, ... The objective was to get a nationwide demonstration of concern for the environment so large that it would shake the political establishment out of its lethargy.

  Gaylord Nelson

  Political, Environment, Grassroots

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• We should have no concern for the environment, because, after the great flood with Noah, God promised that He would never ruin the earth again.

  James Inhofe

  Should Have, Environmental, Earth

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• A second key area where you are called to make a contribution is in showing concern for the environment. This is not only because this country, more than many others, is likely to be seriously affected by climate change. You are called to care for Creation not only as responsible citizens, but also as followers of Christ!

  Pope Francis

  Country, Keys, Climate

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• If you do not have a loving concern for the environment... it will no longer sustain you - you will not be worthy of it. You will not be destroying the planet, you see. You will not be destroying the birds, or the flowers, or the grain, or the animals... they will be destroying you.

  Seth

  Flower, Animal, Bird

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• I'm particularly struck by the neo-socialist concern for the well-being of plants, animals, lakes and rivers, rain forests and deserts - particularly when the concern for the environment appears far more intense than the concern for the human family.

  Robert Sirico

  Rain, Animal, Lakes

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