We won’t have a society if we destroy the environment. Margaret Mead
It isn’t pollution that’s harming the environment. It’s the impurities in our air and water that are doing it. Dan Quayle
I really wonder what gives us the right to wreck this poor planet of ours. Kurt Vonnegut, Jr
The most alarming of all man’s assaults upon the environment is the contamination of air, earth, rivers, and sea with dangerous and even lethal materials. This pollution is for the most part irrecoverable; the chain of evil it initiates not only in the world that must support life but in living tissues is for the most part irreversible. In this now universal contamination of the environment, chemicals are the sinister and little-recognized partners of radiation in changing the very nature of the world–the very nature of its life. Rachel Carson
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? Robert Redford
We could have saved the Earth but we were too damned cheap. Kurt Vonnegut, Jr
The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river. Ross Perot
It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment. Ansel Adams
To waste, to destroy our natural resources, to skin and exhaust the land instead of using it so as to increase its usefulness, will result in undermining in the days of our children the very prosperity which we ought by right to hand down to them amplified and developed. Theodore Roosevelt