342 Quotes About Environmentalism

With the stakes as high as they are, I don't separate my professional voice with my activism. Our voices are desperately needed to create change.

It just so happens that we are all alive at the last possible moment when changing course can mean saving lives on a truly unimaginable scale.

What you buy doesn't make you cool, it makes you the opposite. Stop buying stuff just to have more stuff. Most of us have enough of everything already. Let's care for what we've got, instead, and dispose of our disposable society.

We felt as though we had a responsibility to do something about it. So, we did.

We need to consume less. A lot less. Less food, less energy, less stuff. Fewer cars, electric cars, cotton T-shirts, laptops, mobile phone upgrades. Far fewer.Yet, every decade, global consumption continues to increase relentlessly.

Humanity cannot keep expanding in numbers and relentless destruction and still expect everything to be ‘ok’. We moved far beyond ‘ok’ a very long time ago, the world is in crisis because of us. To believe otherwise is dangerous and delusional. In this finite world we have only two choices - to change ourselves to fit within it or die out.

The global economy is built on the principle that one place can be exploited, even destroyed, for the sake of another place.

I am here because I have to be here, as here I am supposed to be! All things should be, and usually are, found in their rightful places. Can you imagine how chaotic the world would be if nothing was in its correct place?

What melody will our rivers remember if songbirds forget how to sing?