George Monbiot Quotes

I think the greatest challenge in environmentalism and the most rewarding challenge is trying to figure out how humans can meet their needs while protecting the environment.

Pollution is nothing but resources we're not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we've been ignorant of their value.

Unless we keep this planet healthy, everything else is for naught.

Address these environmental issues and you will address every issue known to man. And we keep dabbling in things that aren't really that important in the long term.

So often we talk about saving the planet, but what we really mean is to save the planet the way it is, so we can live here. So that is can sustain us.

What I have experienced over time is that environmental problems are easier to deal with in ways that don't go into their interconnections to the rest of what we are.

We can make a concerted effort to stop poisoning the planet: that would be a good way of appeasing the gods.

To waste, to destroy, our natural resources, to skin and exhaust the land instead of using it so as to increase its usefulness, will result in undermining in the days of our children the very prosperity which we ought by right to hand down to them amplified and developed.

In the long term the economy and the environment are the same thing. If it is unenvironmental it is uneconomical. That is a rule of nature.

I agree on the need for environmental sustainability. It is no good raising gross national income while at the same time destroying natural assets.

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

Environment is of supreme importance. It is greater than will power.

We are now heading down a centuries-long path toward increasing the productivity of our natural capital - the resource systems upon which we depend to live - instead of our human capital.

I never lose an opportunity to speak about my obsession: humankind and the environment.

My main issue is sustainability of the Earth, and protection of those animals and people who dwell here.

A fascinating challenge facing today's environmental movement is how to best approach the reversal of past decisions that altered once-pristine environmental spaces for the sake of urgent man-made needs.

If you're a Conservative, why aren't you behind conserving the land?

I tell my environmental friends that they have won. Every issue we look at from an energy perspective is now also looked at from an environmental perspective.

I think it's important to be kind to the world before it disappears if we don't take care of it.

Raising awareness on the most pressing environmental issues of our time is more important than ever.

We're busily wrecking the chances for future generations at a rapid rate of knots by not recognizing the damage we're doing to the natural environment, bearing in mind that this is the only planet that we know has any life on it.

Genetic design is something we can use to fight the lack of sustainability we humans are forcing on the earth's environment.

Why are ecologists and environmentalists so feared and hated? This is because in part what they have to say is new to the general public, and the new is always alarming.

This Earth is our only home. Together, we must protect and cherish it.

Environmental activism against the resource industry is widespread all over the world, but at the same time we have to realise that these are basic materials on which civilisation depends. We need to tap natural resources in a sustainable manner.