Quotes and Sayings about Conservation & Environment Protection

We can halt the destruction of the world's rainforests - and even restore parts of them - in order to ensure that the forests do what they are so good at - in other words, storing carbon naturally.

King Charles III

There can be no lasting prosperity for our people, if we do not protect our planet.

Rishi Sunak

There is no folly of the beast of the earth which is not infinitely outdone by the madness of man.

Herman Melville in Moby-Dick

Humanity Animals

The natural world can continue to surprise us as long as we give it space to thrive.

Our Great National Parks - Season 1 Episode 1

To love the world is to be afflicted.

Yunus Emre

The truth is: the natural world is changing. And we are totally dependent on that world. It provides our food, water and air. It is the most precious thing we have and we need to defend it.

David Attenborough

Nature & Environment Air

Protecting the climate and nature is one of the biggest challenges of our time that we can only tackle together.

Olaf Scholz - September 2020

In my view, we've already waited too long to deal with this climate crisis. We can't wait any longer. We see it with our own eyes. We feel it. We know it in our bones. And it's time to act!

Joe Biden - January 2021

Climate Change

Sooner or later, we will have to recognise that the Earth has rights, too, to live without pollution. What mankind must know is that human beings cannot live without Mother Earth, but the planet can live without humans.

Evo Morales

Earth

I don't accept the Republicans' argument that boldly addressing climate change and having the world's strongest economy are incompatible. I believe that the exact opposite of that is true. Tackling our climate challenges will provide us with the opportunity to grow our economy, protect public health, and propel the United States to become the world leader in green innovation in the 21st century.

Elizabeth Warren

The effects of climate change are real and must be acted on.

Joe Biden (as Vice President of the United States) - Mai 2014

Climate Change

This ongoing irresponsible behavior will no doubt be remembered in history as one of the greatest failures of humankind.

Greta Thunberg (Climate activist)

For more than 30 years, the science has been crystal clear. How dare you continue to look away and come here saying that you're doing enough, when the politics and solutions needed are still nowhere in sight.

Greta Thunberg (Climate activist) - September 2019, Rede beim UN Klimagipfel

2019

We all have a choice. We can create transformational action that will safeguard the living conditions for future generations. Or we can continue with our business as usual and fail.

Greta Thunberg (Climate activist)

2019 Fridays for Future

This is money well spent. If we ignore climate change, it's gonna cost us a lot more.

Angela Merkel - September 2019

The question is not whether we are able to change but whether we are changing fast enough.

Angela Merkel

Future generations are not going to ask us what political party were you in. They are going to ask what did you do about it, when you knew the glaciers were melting.

Martin Sheen

Generations

The only way forward, if we are going to improve the quality of the environment, is to get everybody involved.

Richard Rogers

If you can't be in awe of Mother Nature, there's something wrong with you.

Alex Trebek

Nature & Environment

Plans to protect air and water, wilderness and wildlife are in fact plans to protect man.

Stewart Udall

Nature & Environment Air

We are being choked to death by the amount of plastic that we throw away. It's killing our oceans. It's entering into our bodies in the fish we eat.

Kevin Bacon

Plastic

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

Barry Commoner

Let us sacrifice our today so that our children can have a better tomorrow.

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

Generations

I don't understand why when we destroy something created by man we call it vandalism, but when we destroy something created by nature, we call it progress.

Ed Begley Jr.

God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fools.

John Muir

Trees

Something will have gone out of us as a people, if we ever let the remaining wilderness be destroyed.

Wallace Stegner - 1960

Conservation is a state of harmony between men and land.

Aldo Leopold

Marshall: "If economic sanctions and trade-restrictions aren't enforced, the destruction of the rainforest will continue and over a million species will be wiped out!"
Ted: "So you don't want coffee?"

Ted Mosby in How I Met Your Mother - Season 1 Episode 17

Earth's tombstone may be like:
"Everyone wanted the best - for themselves."

Siegfried Lenz

Egoism Earth

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What began as a common desire to secure wilderness for people to enjoy, has become a worldwide movement to preserve these areas for future generations. They're a place to escape the burdens of everyday life and an inspiration for our children. They're a haven for endangered species and a hotbed for scientific research.

Our Great National Parks - Season 1 Episode 1

Nature & Environment

Nature's creative power is far beyond man's instinct of destruction.

Jules Verne in Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea

Nature & Environment

Nature has to be felt.

Alexander von Humboldt

Nature & Environment

I love the earth. If you ask me it's the greatest planet in the world.

Stephen Colbert

Earth

We called her Mother Earth. Because she gave birth to us, and then we sucked her dry.

Jon Stewart

Earth

Today we strike in solidarity with Palestine and Gaza. The world needs to speak up and call for an immediate ceasefire, justice and freedom for Palestinians and all civilians affected.

Greta Thunberg - Oktober 2023

Middle East Conflict

We can't save the world by playing by the rules. Because the rules have to be changed. Everything needs to change. And it has to start today.

Greta Thunberg - 24 November 2018, TEDxStockholm

Fridays for Future Rules

There is a sufficiency in the world for man's need but not for man's greed.

Mahatma Gandhi

Greed World Climate Change

Our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children's future. And we are all mortal.

John F. Kennedy - June 1963

Justice Air

These animals washing up with their stomachs filled with plastic was devastating not only because of their incredible intelligence, but because they even help keep the entire ocean alive.

Seaspiracy

Plastic Whales

With our bottomless appetite for unchecked and unequal economic growth, humanity has become a weapon of mass extinction. We are treating nature like a toilet.

António Guterres - December 2022

Climate Change Trash & Garbage

Chile is not a rich country in terms of gas, or oil or coal, but we are extremely rich in terms of the energies of the future.

Sebastián Piñera

Chile Renewable Energy

It's been the honor of my lifetime to serve as your president. I love the job - but I love my country more.

Joe Biden - August 2024

2024

No one is above the law, everybody ought to be held accountable.

Pete Buttigieg

Law 2019

I believe in Europe. I am convinced by Europe. Not only as a heritage from the past, but as hope and a vision for the future.

Angela Merkel (as Chancellor of Germany) - July 2020, Speech at the European Parliament

European Union

I fear the day when the technology overlaps with our humanity. The world will only have a generation of idiots.

Albert Einstein

Foolishness Technology Generations

I know her loss will be deeply felt throughout the country.

King Charles III - September 2022

Queen Elizabeth II 2022 Death of Queen Elizabeth II

We must be clear that any unilateral call for a cease-fire by Russia is completely meaningless in the current context.

Rishi Sunak - December 2022

Russia-Ukraine War

It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.

Herman Melville

Character

I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I'll go to it laughing.

Herman Melville in Moby-Dick

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