Environmentalist Quotes - Page 3

• Environmentalists have been outspoken in their support of smaller family size and abortion rights as keys to reducing global warming. But when it comes to immigration, the single biggest contributor to population growth in the industrial world, they stand largely silent.

  Gary Bauer

  Keys, Rights, Support

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• I think when a surfer becomes a surfer, it's almost like an obligation to be an environmentalist at the same time.

  Kelly Slater

  Thinking, Surfing, Surfer

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• I think that environmentalists have been terribly misunderstood over the years. I believe that anyone that cares about the earth is an environmentalist. People that make a decision to not throw garbage out on the street because they consider the possible impacts. That's environmentalism in its most basic form.

  Jerome Ringo

  Believe, Thinking, Impact

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I've always been an environmentalist, but my life changed the day I had children. I realized that I wasn't doing enough to protect the planet. People need nature, and of course I want my children to have the best possible opportunity in life. I also realized how important it was for me to raise them to be conscientious people that are aware of their impact on the earth.

  Julia Roberts

  Children, Life Changing, Opportunity

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• Our forests are not for toilet paper. They are worth more standing than cut. That deserves to be defended, not only by native peoples but also by environmentalists.

  Winona LaDuke

  Cutting, Paper, Toilets

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• Environmentalists and rank and file timber workers becoming allies is the most dangerous thing in the world to the timber industry!

  Darryl Cherney

  Allies, World, Becoming

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• Im an environmentalist; I recycle.

  Kyrsten Sinema

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• Mountain Pine bark beetles need -37°C (-35°F) for three days to freeze to death. Unfortunately, with global warming, that no longer happens in British Columbia [Canada]. This means the population of the beetles have exploded. They have destroyed more forests than all the environmentalists put together have saved.

  Mark Leiren-Young

  Mean, Together, Mountain

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• The airline business is it is mostly run by a bunch of spineless nincompoops who actually don't want to stand up to the environmentalists and call them the lying wankers that they are.

  Michael O'Leary

  Running, Lying, Airline Business

  "Michael O’Leary: a gift for controversy and an eye on the bottom line" by Rob Davies, www.execreview.com. September 24, 2017.

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• An environmentalist that eats meat is like a philanthropist that won't give money to charities.

  Howard Lyman

  Giving, Meat, Charity

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• I think environmentalists do no service to their cause by taking fundamentalist stances. I am not defending corporate India's track record, but for many environmental problems, there are technological solutions.

  Jairam Ramesh

  Thinking, Track, Environmental

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• There’s more to being an environmentalist than occasionally signing an online petition and mailing your check to the Sierra Club. Really the most effective environmental actions you can take have to do with crafting your home and surroundings, your workplace decisions and your investment habits.

  Alex Steffen

  Work, Home, Decision

  "On green building, urban development, and reviving rural America". Interview with David Roberts, grist.org. September 1, 2005.

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• The forests are the lungs of the world. I’ve always believed if you breathe, you’re an environmentalist.

  Woody Harrelson

  World, Forests, Breathe

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• A book came out recently written by scientists and environmentalists that made me so angry. It said the only thing we have to worry about is big industry. Each individual who tries to make his or her own environment better is useless. I find this criminal, because then you have a billion people all saying, It doesn't matter what I do because I'm just one person. But if you turn that around and a billion people say, What I do does make a difference, then it will make a difference.

  Jane Goodall

  Women, Book, Differences

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• If the human species, or indeed any part of the biosphere, is to continue to survive, it must eventually leave the Earth and colonize space. For the simple fact of the matter is, the planet Earth is doomed... Let us follow many environmentalists and regard the Earth as Gaia, the mother of all life (which indeed she is). Gaia, like all mothers, is not immortal. She is going to die. But her line of descent might be immortal. . . . Gaia's children might never die out-provided they move into space. The Earth should be regarded as the womb of life-but one cannot remain in the womb forever.

  Frank J. Tipler

  Mother, Children, Moving

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• We want to annoy the whenever we can. The best thing we can do with environmentalists is shoot them.

  Michael O'Leary

  Environmental, Want, Annoying

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• I drove an electric car for seven years because of its advanced technology, not because I have any concerns about energy resources. I have none at all. And when environmentalists say that global warming is dangerous, unprecedented and that we'll have a tipping point for atmospheric carbon dioxide, it's just nonsense.

  Burt Rutan

  Technology, Years, Car

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• Environmentalism isn't a discipline or specialty. It's a way of seeing our place in the world. And we need everybody to see the world that way. Don't think 'In order to make a difference I have to become an environmentalist.'

  David Suzuki

  Thinking, Order, Differences

  "David Suzuki and his daughter, Severn, in town to talk of adventures and activism". The Star Interview, www.thestar.com. February 25, 2013.

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• I am an environmentalist. ... I am for clean air.

  Ronald Reagan

  Air, Dictator, Clean

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• ...whatever the self-righteous excesses of the environmentalist left, it is impossible to be true to traditional conservative values (to say nothing of the Christian faith conservatives like me profess) and hold laissez faire attitudes about the use and abuse of the natural world.

  Rod Dreher

  Christian, Attitude, Self

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• Environmentalists and secular humanists insist that humans will destroy the planet. Corporate capitalists and many religious fundamentalists have no regard for wildlife and nature. Ultimately, this dualistic battle is based on false premises. In fact, this planet is more powerful than the human species.

  Zeena Schreck

  Religious, Powerful, Battle

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• It's incredible to see labor unions and environmentalists getting together to stop the corporate mentality that destroys both jobs and the environment.

  Bonnie Raitt

  Jobs, Work, Together

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• We've got to ride the global-warming issue. Even if the theory of global warming is wrong, we will be doing the right thing in terms of economic policy and environmental policy.

  Tim Wirth

  Kyoto Protocol, Issues, Environmental

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• I would take even money that England will not exist in the year 2000.

  Paul R. Ehrlich

  Years, England, Alarmists

  "The Doomslaye" by Ed Regis, www.wired.com. February 1, 1997.

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• When I was very young, biology, the diversity of life, was one of my main interests. I know there's this image people have that I'm this spoiled, cocky punk of an actor. Honestly, that's not who I am. I really care that so many species have been wiped out, like genocide of entire races. I believe in the divine right of all species to survive on this planet. So I decided I want to be active as an environmentalist. I learned. I asked experts. I got active.

  Leonardo DiCaprio

  Believe, Cocky, Divine Right

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