Philip Wylie Quotes

Raising awareness on the most pressing environmental issues of our time is more important than ever.

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

I'm very concerned for the future of the earth and its amazing creatures. We've got to be careful and make sure we don't foul our own nest.

Fundamentally, if you look at where the environmental issues are coming from, it's all because of humans and our impact on the environment, so while it's true that one individual is not going to sufficiently fix the environment, it is a necessary thing.

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 policy must strike a balance between the earth's best interests and our citizen's pressing needs.

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

In the end, we will conserve only what we love, we will love only what we understand, and we will understand only what we are taught.

Journey with me to a true commitment to our environment. Journey with me to the serenity of leaving to our children a planet in equilibrium.

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

Earth Day 1970 was irrefutable evidence that the American people understood the environmental threat and wanted action to resolve it.

Environmental concern is a phenomena that tends to rise in a nation after a certain level of wealth.

The images of Earth's delicate biosphere, contrasting with the sterile moonscape where the astronauts left their footsteps, have become iconic for environmentalists: these may indeed be the Apollo programme's most enduring legacy.

Franklin Roosevelt was very concerned about environmental issues.

It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment.

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.

We firmly believe the environmental issues cannot be addressed without extensive public participation, but people need to be informed before they can get involved.

For too much of history, we've viewed the world's precious resources - both environmental and human - as things to extract, to make the most of in order to maximize their potential.

Why are ecologists and environmentalists so feared and hated? This is because in part what they have to say is new to the general public, and the new is always alarming.

Environmentalism isn't a discipline or specialty. It's a way of seeing our place in the world. And we need everybody to see the world that way. Don't think 'In order to make a difference I have to become an environmentalist.'

Environmental disaster is the gravest threat to China's continued development. That's according to me, but it is not some wacko view.

I was sort of growing up at a time of really rapidly expanding ecological consciousness. It was a time of reckoning when people were talking about how the Everglades was on life support. I was always trying to reconcile it as a kid.

Everything I do is the environment.

I wanted to help raise awareness, so I created an environmental foundation called Just Within Reach.

Not all is doom and gloom. We are beginning to understand the natural world and are gaining a reverence for life - all life.