Jon Stewart 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.

For him nature is basically a golf course or a ranch--or a national park turned into a country club where folks can burn off stress by speeding over the snow while polluting the air of Yellowstone with gas-guzzling skidoos.

I became an environmentalist because I love the living world, but I spend much of my life thinking about electricity, industrial processes and civil engineering.

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

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.

As a nation, we owe a great deal to the National Audubon Society, one of our most distinguished and important environmental organizations, and all those who work to protect America's open land and waterways.

The rain forest has Sting. Now Siberia has Jack Dee. Someone had to draw the short straw. In this case it was the rain forest.

The Endangered Species Act is the strongest and most effective tool we have to repair the environmental harm that is causing a species to decline.

Americans trash the planet not because we're evil, but because the industrial systems we've devised leave no other choice. Our ranch houses and high-rises, factories and farms, freeways and power plants were conceived before we had a clue how the planet works.

We are aware only of the empty space in the forest, which only yesterday was filled with trees.

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.

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.

Humanity is consuming the resources of the earth and life in an excessive and disordered way, forgetting the earth's own needs

No-one wants polluted air, water or land, denuded forests or extinct animal species. But the error most people make is to trust the legislature to prevent these tragedies. What they don’t realize is how big a role the legislature has played historically in causing environmental destruction.

Every time there is an economic intensification, there is an ecological impact.

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

It is not enough to celebrate the earth and all its inhabitants, we must restore what we have destroyed.

True conservation means protecting the entire habitat.

Even the wealth of the U.S. cannot protect against the levels of environmental destruction that we are unleashing.

The potential in many environmental issues is that if you undertake corrective action without appropriate understanding of the problem, then you wind up doing more harm than good.

The planet isn't going anywhere. We are.

I think the environment is possibly our most worrying thing at the moment, so I think mountaintops are the place to live.

In America, I don't know how much longer the environment is going to exist. I sort of strongly believe that we're in danger.

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.