Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Quotes

The most patriotic thing you can do is to take care of the environment and try to live sustainably.

There is no larger collective-action problem than the environment. The three biggest lies of the environmental movement is that every little bit helps, you can do your part, and together we can do it.

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

This activist loves Oregon more than he loves life.

It really disturbs me that the environmental movement has been co-opted by creation-worshippers instead of being encouraged by the Creator-worshippers.

With all this talk of Going Green, Buying Green, Living Green, and Green being the new whatever, I've come to realize that, although we had no green, my grandmother was actually the 'greenest' person I've ever known.

The purpose of the environmental movement is to establish control over the people.

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.

Invoking Nature always measures the distance we have yet to travel to achieve real progress on environmental issues.

Think globally, act locally": "Our salvation depends upon our ability to create a religion of nature.

Corporate polluters, their phony think tanks and political toadies like to marginalize environmentalists as tree huggers, or radicals. But there is nothing radical about clean air or water.

Today the great gift of God's Creation is exposed to serious dangers and lifestyles which can degrade it. Environmental pollution is making particularly unsustainable the lives of the poor of the world ... we must pledge ourselves to take care of creation and to share its resources in solidarity.

I don't think the United States needs superpatriots. We need patriotism, honestly practiced by all of us, and we don't need these people that are more patriotic than you or anyone else.

We need to move beyond the idea of 'environment' and fall back in love with Mother Earth.

In the 19th century, we devoted our best minds to exploring nature. In the 20th century, we devoted ourselves to controlling and harnessing it. In the 21st century, we must devote ourselves to restoring it.

If we want to save our planet earth, we have a duty to put an end to the capitalist system.

There are a helluva lot more of us who care about our environment in the world than we realize. We're the majority, and we can do something about that

To the Green movement in which infantilism is seen at its worst, authority is a far more serious evil than the destruction of life.

I think the environmental movement is now so large and diverse that it's hard to talk of it as a single entity.

If we continue to think of ourselves mostly as consumers, it's going to be very hard to bring our environmental troubles under control. But it's also going to be very hard to live the rounded and joyful lives that could be ours. This is a subversive volume in all the best ways!

Most of us still believe in the intrinsic value of nature, but I think the first century of the environmental/conservation movement demonstrated pretty clearly that this value cannot compel a civilization-wide shift toward sustainable behavior and enterprise when stacked up against the urgent economic and social needs of 7 billion people, most of whom are struggling to get out of poverty.

I think every single American believes they have a right to clean air and clean water.

We're not protecting the environment for the sake of the fishes and the birds. We're protecting it for our own sake.

Odd as I am sure it will appear to some, I can think of no better form of personal involvement in the cure of the environment than that of gardening. A person who is growing a garden, if he is growing it organically, is improving a piece of the world. He is producing something to eat, which makes him somewhat independent of the grocery business, but he is also enlarging, for himself, the meaning of food and the pleasure of eating.

I think the environmental movement is the biggest people's movement in the world. Unfortunately, our governments and corporations haven't responded accordingly to protect our planet's natural resources.