Asoka Quotes

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

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.

I reflect back 35 years ago, and look how far we have come in America with our environmental policy to improve the conditions of our air and water, and we have had some real successes.

I am an environmentalist, but I'm not a wacko environmentalist. I believe that mankind and nature can live side-by-side for the mutual benefit of both.

The planet doesn't require saving, and actually hasn't asked Greenpeace to save it.

There should be more attention paid to scientific research in the ecology area, and I think that such attention to proper environmental concerns would make the public feel much better about it.

The future will either be green or not at all.

Every time I have some moment on a seashore, or in the mountains, or sometimes in a quiet forest, I think this is why the environment has to be preserved.

I think the government has to reposition environment on top of their national and international priorities.

Conservation has been in eclipse in this country ever since Theodore Roosevelt’s day. It had barely gotten off the ground when Uncle Joe Cannon, the Speaker of the House in those days, issued his ultimatum: “Not 1 cent for scenery.” Well, today we are repealing Cannon’s law. We are declaring a new doctrine of conservation.

The free market should not include the right to pollute our environment.

The current challenge facing the environmental authorities is how to properly deal with the environmental problems caused by economic development.

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

All the conservation efforts in the world won't be enough to make a dent in the oncoming sustainability crisis our planet faces.

I tell my environmental friends that they have won. Every issue we look at from an energy perspective is now also looked at from an environmental perspective.

Here are the facts we confront. No one is against conservation. No one is against alternative fuel sources.

My efforts in Congress are guided by the belief that environmental preservation and restoration are a critical part of the legacy we leave to future generations.

The government should set a goal for a clean environment but not mandate how that goal should be implemented.

We have vastly increased the amount of funding that is available for conservation partnerships.

The care of the Earth is our most ancient and most worthy, and after all our most pleasing responsibility. To cherish what remains of it and to foster its renewal is our only hope.

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.

Environmental pollution is an incurable disease. It can only be prevented.

We don't have to sacrifice a strong economy for a healthy environment.

We can make a concerted effort to stop poisoning the planet: that would be a good way of appeasing the gods.