Ken Kesey Quotes

Raising awareness on the most pressing environmental issues of our time is more important than ever.

I reflect back 35 years ago, and look how far we have come in America with our environmental policy to improve the conditions of our air and water, and we have had some real successes.

We can make a concerted effort to stop poisoning the planet: that would be a good way of appeasing the gods.

I travel all over the country speaking to young people, and I am always amazed at how engaged in environmental conservation they are.

This whole idea that we address environmental issues by not doing stuff just doesn't work.

I, Maggie, personally cannot tell you that you're going to save the planet. But what I do know is that we can draw a line to an issue that can conserve what we already have and what's left in a way that we can actually breathe the air, drink the water, actually grow things in soil - that matters in a real, practical way.

Conservation has been in eclipse in this country ever since Theodore Roosevelt’s day. It had barely gotten off the ground when Uncle Joe Cannon, the Speaker of the House in those days, issued his ultimatum: “Not 1 cent for scenery.” Well, today we are repealing Cannon’s law. We are declaring a new doctrine of conservation.

Everyone realizes that we have to clean up the environment, but no one likes the cost.

The central organizing principle of governments everywhere must be the environment.

If conservation isn't conservative, then words have no meaning at all.

Unless we keep this planet healthy, everything else is for naught.

Environmentalism opposes reckless innovation and makes conservation the central order of business.

Franklin Roosevelt was very concerned about environmental issues.

So I'm going to go on and work on preserving the ozone layer, encouraging everyone to recycle.

This Earth is our only home. Together, we must protect and cherish it.

I think there's a green side to John Kerry, if you like, that he's an environmental activist. His record on the environment is as best as you have on a pro-environment record of anybody in the U.S. Senate.

We decided that the environment was an integral part of our policies and the political thrust of our government. We gave it the priority and we sustained it with the money required to make it happen.

So often we talk about saving the planet, but what we really mean is to save the planet the way it is, so we can live here. So that is can sustain us.

I wouldn't want anyone to destroy the earth.

I wanted to weave a green thread through the Conservative party; that's my job, and I signed up imagining that I would be in a very small minority within my party, possibly even on my own, battling away on these issues.

My efforts in Congress are guided by the belief that environmental preservation and restoration are a critical part of the legacy we leave to future generations.

If you look at the state of our planet, the next generations won't be around if we consider sustainability as a gimmick.

Why has it seemed that the only way to protect the environment is with heavy-handed government regulation?

The planet doesn't require saving, and actually hasn't asked Greenpeace to save it.

It's time we stopped ignoring the environment. Let's not let another election go by without making this a high priority.