Jim Clyburn Quotes

I wanted to help raise awareness, so I created an environmental foundation called Just Within Reach.

I do believe very strongly that all of us and all of the other things in the context of our planet with Mother Nature, all of these things absolutely have a profound effect.

We must not be the generation responsible for irreversibly damaging the environment. We must hand it over to our children in as near pristine condition as we were lent it from our parents.

I'm a latecomer to the environmental issue, which for years seemed to me like an excuse for more government regulation. But I can see that in rich societies, voters are paying less attention to economic issues and more to issues of the spirit, including the environment.

Journey with me to a true commitment to our environment. Journey with me to the serenity of leaving to our children a planet in equilibrium.

Fundamentally, if you look at where the environmental issues are coming from, it's all because of humans and our impact on the environment, so while it's true that one individual is not going to sufficiently fix the environment, it is a necessary thing.

Environmental concern is a little like dieting or paying off credit-card debt - an episodically terrific idea that burns brightly and then seems to fade when we realize there's a reason we need to diet or pay down our debt. The reason is that it's really, really hard, and too many of us in too many spheres of life choose the easy over the hard.

Before computers, telephone lines and television connect us, we all share the same air, the same oceans, the same mountains and rivers. We are all equally responsible for protecting them.

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.'

We won't have a society if we destroy the environment.

One Earth, one mother - one does not sell the Earth.

We can have technology, prosperity, nice homes and cars, but at the same time we must be conscious of what we are dumping into the water, the air and our food.

The need to protect the environment has emerged as an undeniably important priority for me.

No compromise in defense of Mother Earth.

Environmentalism is a dangerous ideology endangering human freedom.

The central organizing principle of governments everywhere must be the environment.

The earth is the only home that any of us have—so far, anyway.

What turned me into an environmentalist, on my eleventh birthday, was seeing the first strip mine.

I think its important to speak up for the environment because the Earth is not saying something.

I always knew that I was going be an environmental advocate when I was very young.

I have a major respect for nature. I'm an environmentalist.

The environmental movement does not always have to be about stopping things. It can be about fixing problems.

I definitely want to get into environmental science and environmental politics, learning a lot more and preserving what's left of the world. That's such a sacred circle to be in. I'd love to contribute to that.

I have my own career. I'm an environmentalist.

We only have one earth. Let's take care of it.