Alice Waters Quotes

It's time to face facts: Most people stop being environmentalists when they sit down to eat.

If we do not permit the earth to produce beauty and joy, it will in the end not produce food, either.

Everything I do is the environment.

When I started researching the eco effects of eating meat, I'd assumed, for no good reason, that environmental irresponsibility would correspond to both animal size and deliciousness: Eating cows would be worst, eating pigs would be a bit less bad, and eating chickens would be basically harmless.

Sadly, it's much easier to create a desert than a forest.

If people are prepared to eat locally and seasonally, then they probably do pretty well in terms of environmental impact.

I think the greatest challenge in environmentalism and the most rewarding challenge is trying to figure out how humans can meet their needs while protecting the environment.

I have lived the American dream in every aspect, and now I hope to make a very big impact in helping the planet.

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

When we go to the store, we bring home more than food - we bring home traces of broader environmental problems. But we can use our shopping carts and dinner plates to help solve some of those problems.

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

We're getting closer to our nature.

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

What's it like to envision the ten-thousand-year environmental impact of tossing a plastic bottle into the trash bin, all in the single second it takes to actually toss it? Or the ten-thousand-year history of the fossil fuel being burned to drive to work or iron a shirt? It may be environmentally progressive, but it's not altogether pleasant.

I'm on the board of the Sierra Club Foundation and am myself a big environmentalist. But the way to make the biggest difference is to change mainstream behavior.

I do believe very strongly that all of us and all of the other things in the context of our planet with Mother Nature, all of these things absolutely have a profound effect.

The way to make the world a better place, through your eating, is simply to eat a bit less meat. Local is sometimes good, sometimes bad. But even when it's good, its environmental impact is relatively small compared to other possible improvements.

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

At an ever accelerating rate we are now squandering the capital of metallic ores and fossil fuels accumulated in the earth’s crust during hundreds of millions of years. How long can this spending spree go on?

We can no longer throw our waste away because there is no away.

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

The only thing I do for posterity is plant trees.

I've learned so much about what you can do to help animals, the environmental issues around meat production.

I have a lot of love for nature, trees, animals and greenery, and I feel that if I did not exist, there'd be no greenery on the face of the earth.

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