B. F. Skinner Quotes

Environmental concern is a little like dieting or paying off credit-card debt - an episodically terrific idea that burns brightly and then seems to fade when we realize there's a reason we need to diet or pay down our debt. The reason is that it's really, really hard, and too many of us in too many spheres of life choose the easy over the hard.

And I think that the environment is one very strong way to counterbalance the chaotic nature of our life.

We won't have a society if we destroy the environment.

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.

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.

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

I believe the American people care a lot about the environment.

I like the outdoors and the natural world. Environmental issues.

I believe in the protection of the environment that supports us all.

I am a big lover of the environment. I actually come from Maine, which is pretty much all environment.

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

I was sort of growing up at a time of really rapidly expanding ecological consciousness. It was a time of reckoning when people were talking about how the Everglades was on life support. I was always trying to reconcile it as a kid.

Everything I do is the environment.

Our environment, the world in which we live and work, is a mirror of our attitudes and expectations.

Pity those who nature abuses; never those who abuse nature.

If we continue to address the issue of the environment where we live as though we're the only species that lives here, we'll create a disaster for ourselves.

The truth is, natural organisms have managed to do everything we want to do without guzzling fossil fuels, polluting the planet or mortgaging the future.

The most important principle of environment is that you are not the only element.

A day spent praising the earth and lamenting man's pollutionist history makes you feel like a superior, sensitive soul.

Environmental protection doesn't happen in a vacuum. You can't separate the impact on the environment from the impact on our families and communities.

We must not be the generation responsible for irreversibly damaging the environment. We must hand it over to our children in as near pristine condition as we were lent it from our parents.

I want clean water and clean air and conservation... that's not what extreme environmentalists are all about. For them, it is a religion. They believe in trees and animals, not God.

In the case of the environment, there's no one to bail it out.

We will preserve the environment.

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