Gaylord Nelson Quotes

In the case of the environment, there's no one to bail it out.

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.

I think there are changes in the environment. There are a lot of items to contribute to it.

I can't imagine anything more important than air, water, soil, energy and biodiversity. These are the things that keep us alive.

Because we're not in harmony with the environment, we're destroying the environment that supports us.

We must conserve our environment and pass it on to our children in as good or better condition than it was passed to us.

Traveling is my form of self-education. Every stream I fish now is not as good as it used to be. Traveling is my form of self-education. Every stream I fish now is not as good as it used to be. If you keep your eyes open as you travel around, you realize we are destroying this planet.

And I think that the environment is one very strong way to counterbalance the chaotic nature of our life.

Environmentalism is a way of seeing our place within the biosphere.

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.

Over the long haul of life on this planet, it is the ecologists, and not the bookkeepers of business, who are the ultimate accountants.

I like the outdoors and the natural world. Environmental issues.

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

But overall, Obama's record on the environment has been uninspired - and that's putting it kindly. He hasn't stopped coal companies from blowing up mountaintops and devastating large regions of Appalachia.

If we intend to provide a better life, and a better world, for future generations, we can't ignore the quality of the environment we leave them.

The environmental crisis is all a result of rushing.

I was sort of growing up at a time of really rapidly expanding ecological consciousness. It was a time of reckoning when people were talking about how the Everglades was on life support. I was always trying to reconcile it as a kid.

Unless we practice conservation, those who come after us will have to pay the price of misery, degradation, and failure for the progress and prosperity of our day.

If man doesn't learn to treat the oceans and the rain forest with respect, man will become extinct.

I always get involved with the environment because once you go past the tipping point with the environment, you don't get it back.

We owe it to ourselves and to the next generation to conserve the environment so that we can bequeath our children a sustainable world that benefits all.

'Green' issues at last are attracting serious attention, owing to critically important links between the environment and the economy, health, and our security.

One must do no violence to nature, nor model it in conformity to any blindly formed chimera.

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.

I have bigger concerns than what pop stars are doing. I'm more concerned about our environment, what industrialists are doing to it.