American Indian proverb Quotes

In many developing countries environmental problems are relegated to the periphery because they do not appear to be as urgent as other issues … We cannot survive without clean drinking water, food and pure air. Environmental concerns are not a luxury in Africa.

There are real and growing dangers to our simple and most precious possessions: the air we breathe, the water we bring, and the land which sustains us.... If we do not act, the world of the year 2000 will be much less able to sustain life than it is now.

There are fewer chemical pollutants in the air. Our drinking water is safer. Our food standards have been raised. We've cleaned up more toxic waste sites in three years than the previous administrations did in twelve. The environment is cleaner, and we have fought off the most vigorous assault on environmental protection since we began to protect the environment in 1970. We are moving in the right direction to the 21st century.

I have always seen pollution as theft.

Your armed struggles for profit Have left collars of waste upon My shore,, Currents of debris upon my breast.

In the long term the economy and the environment are the same thing. If it is unenvironmental it is uneconomical. That is a rule of nature.

Every American deserves to breathe clean air.

Man's war against nature is a war against himself.

Nature does not have the capacity to heal all the wounds that have been inflicted upon it by mankind.

Every time we try to do something to improve the environment someone predicts that it will ruin the economy.

What’s been going on for years is political science, not good science in the environmental area.

Pollution knows no boundaries; it moves across borders.

No compromise in defense of Mother Earth.

We thought we would get around to it sometime down the line. Theoretically we could have regulated it, but it wasn't on our radar screen.

I shall never come back to Arizona. The main reason is that the country has been ruined by motorists. The Navajos are doomed. The beauty and the romance of their lives is dead.

We're in a war, the war of industrial civilization against the natural world.

The environment is more than just nature. The environment is peoples needs.

I do believe this period of the 1980's will be remembered as the time the planet struck back. The planet is telling us we can't treat it this way anymore.

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

Man's power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its instrument.

The supreme reality of our time is ... the vulnerability of this planet.

Water is one of the world’s great business opportunities. It promises to be to the 21st century what oil was to the 20th.

Mother Earth is not only a fruitful mother, she is also a grateful mother and repays her children for every kindness and tenderness.

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

We'll never know the worth of water till the well goes dry.