Environmental Defense Quotes

What I love about natural climate solutions is that we should be doing all these things anyway. Instead of making painful choices and deploying miserable means to a desirable end, we can defend ourselves from disaster by enhancing our world of wonders.

I think the environment should be put in the category of our national security. Defense of our resources is just as important as defense abroad. Otherwise what is there to defend?

I have a lot of memories of moments when we defied the odds, when we stopped a timber sale or a nuclear bomb test, and that to me is the true reward.

The most common form of terrorism in the U.S.A. is that carried on by bulldozers and chainsaws. It is not enough to understand the natural world; the point is to defend and preserve it. Sentiment without action is the ruin of the soul.

Truth and beauty can still win battles. We need more art, more passion, more wit in defense of the Earth.

A town is saved, not more by the righteous men in it, than by the woods and swamps that surround it.