Galen Rowell Quotes

I'm a little different from all those conservation types.

Environmental concern is now firmly embedded in public life: in education, medicine and law; in journalism, literature and art.

Ecology has become the political substitute for the word "motherhood.

That's the big mistake the environmental movement made - 'We'll scare the hell out of you, and you'll become an activist'.

I want clean water and clean air and conservation... that's not what extreme environmentalists are all about. For them, it is a religion. They believe in trees and animals, not God.

Inevitably, ecological awareness has this kind of '70s flavour to it.

One of the most important lessons we can glean from the environmental movement is to 'think globally and act locally.'

It's no secret - if you know me, have ever met me or have shared a meal with me - that I'm a passionate environmentalist.

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

No day is alike - I do many other things, and I'm very active in the environmental movement.

I wish my artwork could persuade millions of people to join a global conversation about sustainability.

Arbor Day is not like other holidays. Each of those reposes on the past, while Arbor Day proposes for the future.

I think Captain Cousteau might be the father of the environmental movement.

If you're not a tree hugger, then you're a what, a tree hater?

I think everyone born in Oregon is an environmentalist by birth.

We've seen that if we do not pollute, then the environment becomes so beautiful.

I'm into environmental and ecological issues, so maybe that is an avenue to go down.

I have my own career. I'm an environmentalist.

I want to work on environmental issues.

I never lose an opportunity to speak about my obsession: humankind and the environment.

My main issue is sustainability of the Earth, and protection of those animals and people who dwell here.

My understanding of environmentalism, of the things that radicalize people, of the ethics and effectiveness of different kinds of social protest have definitely become more nuanced and more informed, but they aren't much clearer.

The reason that I keep writing is that all my most powerful messages about the fates of wild places that I care about need to have words as well as images.

I don't believe in environmentalism as the solution to anything. What I believe is that environmentalism illuminates the things that need to be done to solve all of the problems together.

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.