Dr. Seuss Quotes

'The Lorax' book was intended to be propaganda.

My understanding of environmentalism, of the things that radicalize people, of the ethics and effectiveness of different kinds of social protest have definitely become more nuanced and more informed, but they aren't much clearer.

I fight for the environment because we only have one planet, but I see how the environment affects poverty and how the environment affects women around the world.

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

The Rio Earth Summit in 1992 changed my life completely, turning me into an activist. From the air, you see things you can't see from the ground - you really understand the impact of man, even in a place you know well. My work is meant to convince people we can no longer live like this.

I was really educating myself on the environment, but I didn't realize it was so connected to politics, connected to globalization.

No day is alike - I do many other things, and I'm very active in the environmental movement.

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

We should restore a proper balance in environmental regulation and energy production that is based on common sense, not political agendas.

The most important environmental issue is one that is rarely mentioned, and that is the lack of a conservation ethic in our culture.

No compromise in defense of Mother Earth.

Environmentalism is a dangerous ideology endangering human freedom.

The conservation movement, the environmental movement as we know it, really needed to adopt some of the tactics that the civil rights movement and the anti-nuclear movement were already using successfully.

What turned me into an environmentalist, on my eleventh birthday, was seeing the first strip mine.

The environmentalists say capitalism is killing our oceans, air, land, and forests. Capitalists argue that they provide food, fuel, and building materials for a growing world.

Inevitably, ecological awareness has this kind of '70s flavour to it.

Stewardship of our air and water is a responsibility that should be free of the bias of politics. What's more, environmental regulators should abide by the law.

God put the human race in charge of managing the resources of the entire planet for the benefit of all life. Therefore, we, of all people on this planet, should be concerned about environmental issues and doing what we can to enhance the beauty and productivity of the natural realm.

When it comes to environmental regulation, the cruelty is the point.

I have my own career. I'm an environmentalist.

If we don't have a planet, we don't have anything.

What makes 'The Lorax' such a powerful fable is partly its shamelessness. It pulls no punches; it wears its teacher heart on its sleeve.

Invoking Nature always measures the distance we have yet to travel to achieve real progress on environmental issues.

I want to work on environmental issues.

Since the day he came into office, President Bush has worked to gut more than 34 years of hard work by weakening many of our Nation's standing environmental laws, some of which were signed into law by his father.