Zac Goldsmith Quotes

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

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

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.

This whole idea that we address environmental issues by not doing stuff just doesn't work.

A generation of Earth Days has conditioned millions of us to be green in our homes yet we must apply the same ethic to our politics if we want to save our planet and our democracy.

I maintain that if there is such a thing as a true and honest environmentalist, it's people like Slim and hopefully me, who have been caretakers of the land all our lives, along with the generations before us.

I've been making pieces dealing with environmental issues at least since 2004; I mean, I did stuff for the Sierra Club and the Alaskan Wildlife Refuge even back in the 1990s. But somewhere a little after 2004, Hummer hits me up. I'm like, 'Are you kidding me?'

I want to work on environmental issues.

Yes, the Green Party is committed to a healthy environment. But the Green Party is not solely committed to just that.

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

Environmentalism opposes reckless innovation and makes conservation the central order of business.

Franklin Roosevelt was very concerned about environmental issues.

I think an old style of addressing environmental problems is ebbing, but the rise of the so-called conservative, political movement in this country is not a trend towards the future but a reaction to this very broad shift that we are undergoing.

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.

I know they are all environmentalists. I heard a lot of my speeches recycled.

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

Being an environmentalist isn't all about doom and gloom.

I think the new generation is much more demanding about respect for the environment than we have ever imagined.

I'd like to continue to spread my message on conservation and make sure my dad's message - his legacy - lives on.

Environmental concern is now firmly embedded in public life: in education, medicine and law; in journalism, literature and art.

Helping people understand the impact of key environmental and human issues worldwide is something that I'm passionate about. CNN's 'Going Green' series of specials are engaging viewers around the world through important messages of conservation and hope.

Why has it seemed that the only way to protect the environment is with heavy-handed government regulation?

People are overwhelmed looking up at the Mount Everest of environmental challenges that we face. But you put one foot in front of the other and you recognize that not everyone is Sir Edmund Hillary.

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.