We depend on it. Here are some proverbs and quotes about the environment.
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Birds are indicators of the environment. If they are in trouble, we know we'll soon be in trouble.Roger Tory Peterson
Doing all we can to combat climate change comes with numerous benefits, from reducing pollution and associated health care costs to strengthening and diversifying the economy by shifting to renewable energy, among other measures.David Suzuki
Eating insects is good for the environment and balanced diets.Kofi Annan
Environmental pollution is an incurable disease. It can only be prevented.Barry Commoner
Environmental protection and economic development are not in conflict. Environmental protection is not a burden but a source for innovation. It can increase competition, create jobs, and lifts the economy.Chai Jing
Fast food may appear to be cheap food and, in the literal sense it often is, but that is because huge social and environmental costs are being excluded from the calculations.Prince Charles
Good environmental policy is good economic policy.Bernie Sanders
How we grow food has enormous effects on the environment - climate change as well as pollution of air, water, and soil.Marion Nestle
I just wish the world was twice as big and half of it was still unexplored.David Attenborough
It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment.Ansel Adams
It is that range of biodiversity that we must care for - the whole thing - rather than just one or two stars.David Attenborough
It is vitally important that we can continue to say, with absolute conviction, that organic farming delivers the highest quality, best-tasting food, produced without artificial chemicals or genetic modification, and with respect for animal welfare and the environment, while helping to maintain the landscape and rural communities.Prince Charles
Organic farming has been shown to provide major benefits for wildlife and the wider environment. The best that can be said about genetically engineered crops is that they will now be monitored to see how much damage they cause.Prince Charles
People are suffering. People are dying. Entire ecosystems are collapsing. We are in the beginning of a mass extinction, and all you can talk about is money and fairy tales of eternal economic growth. How dare you!Greta Thunberg
Pollution from oil and gas development, toxic runoff, and miles and miles of plastic trash foul the waters and threaten marine life.Frances Beinecke
Sooner or later, we will have to recognise that the Earth has rights, too, to live without pollution. What mankind must know is that human beings cannot live without Mother Earth, but the planet can live without humans.Evo Morales
The environment will continue to deteriorate until pollution practices are abandoned.B.F. Skinner
The extraction of oil, coal and minerals brought, and still brings, a cost to the environment.Bono
The free market should not include the right to pollute our environment.George S. McGovern
The shift to a cleaner energy economy won't happen overnight, and it will require tough choices along the way. But the debate is settled. Climate change is a fact.Barack Obama
The world is waking up. And change is coming, whether you like it or not.Greta Thunberg
