Sarah Koenig Quotes

The result was, when Congress convened in January 1971, everyone was now an environmentalist. They had seen a new force, college students, who favored the environment.

...Environmental groups are too often alarmists. They have an awful track record, so they've lost credibility with the public.

If I have any lasting worth, it will be because I have tried to make people remember what the Earth is meant to look like.

That's the big mistake the environmental movement made - 'We'll scare the hell out of you, and you'll become an activist'.

To forget that the EPA was borne out of public demand is to invite a real backlash.

When it comes to the environment in our own backyard, we understand it far better than anybody in Washington D.C.

Had there not been the film, my name would not represent somebody that's out there fighting for the environment.

I think that the environment is very a complicated question. I am very sympathetic to people who support the environment who live in the United States. I am very sympathetic to people who don't support the environment who live in a very poor country.

People could see by your actions on the park that you cared about it. If we got beat, I'd fling the Sunday papers in the bin and wouldn't read them.

EarthEcho Expeditions represents the culmination of more than a decade of working with educators and youth from around the world. EarthEcho Expeditions uses the thrill of adventure to inspire and empower a new generation of environmental champions.

Well, perhaps the greatest achievement, and we didn't know it at the time, was we held an Earth Day in 1970, and out of that Earth Day a lot of students got involved in saving the environment, or trying to.

We save paradise by an intense education program where you get people that you can trust to talk sanely about the environment and hope that the message will get through.

I was in college when tens of thousands of people marched on Washington for the first Earth Day. Raw sewage floated in rivers and clouds of smog hung over cities. But then something amazing happened. People spoke out. Thousands of students, workers, and ordinary citizens used their voices to say, 'This has to change.'

I began working with the John Muir Institute and then started helping found Friends of the Earth organizations here and there in other countries. That pretty well brings us up to the present.

I have a pretty positive view of environmental activism, but I didn't know much about the ELF. A lot of people make documentaries because they have something they want to say, but I make them because there's something I want to explore.

You can only get really unpopular decisions through if the electorate is convinced of the value of the environment. That's what natural history programmes should be for.

I've won some awards. 'Time' magazine designated me as one of the environmental heroes of the 20th century. Oh, and I've got some honorary citizenships, like from the Conch Republic of the Florida Keys. But the one thing I am proud of is I didn't get the Chevron environmental award. Never did get that one.

I resent the idea that somebody in Washington will protect our environment better than we can.

To change our laws and culture, the green movement must attract and include the majority of all people, not just the majority of affluent people

The Impact Channel and OurPlanet were created to increase awareness of environmental and social causes within the MySpace community.

In 1970, as a 26 year-old, I joined in the effort in my home state of Massachusetts to organize for Earth Day. But what made the event so successful was that I was only one of about 20 million Americans of all ages and backgrounds who got involved.

I am called an environmentalist a lot. But I don't necessarily identify with that word specifically, because of the compartmentalization of the so-called environmental movement.

I get these students who come in and say, I want to help people. I say, people get plenty of help. Why don't you help the planet?

That's what the best global conservation organisations and the American government (and other environmentally inclined governments, such as Sweden and the Netherlands) are doing: protecting the remaining wild environment. This is the equivalent of getting a patient to the emergency room - keep them alive and then figure out how to save them.

Reclaim our environment from those who would destroy it with their predatory economic behavior.