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Climate Change & Environment

The Earth does not belong to us: we belong to the Earth.
Chief Seattle
The environment is where we all meet, where we all have a mutual interest.
Lady Bird Johnson
The greatest threat to our planet is the belief that someone else will save it.
Robert Swan
We do not inherit the Earth from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children.
Native American Proverb
Nature provides a free lunch, but only if we control our appetites.
William Ruckelshaus
The climate crisis is not a political issue; it is a moral and spiritual challenge to all of humanity.
Pope Francis
What we are doing to the forests of the world is but a mirror reflection of what we are doing to ourselves.
Mahatma Gandhi
There is no such thing as ‘away’. When we throw anything away, it must go somewhere.
Annie Leonard
The proper use of science is not to conquer nature but to live in it.
Barry Commoner
The environment and the economy are really two sides of the same coin.
Barry Commoner
Global warming is real—it is happening.
James Hansen
We are the first generation to feel the impact of climate change and the last generation that can do something about it.
Barack Obama
The climate is changing, and so must we.
Ban Ki-moon
Humanity is conducting an unintended, uncontrolled, globally pervasive experiment.
Paul Crutzen
The future will either be green or not at all.
Bob Brown
Conservation is a state of harmony between men and land.
Aldo Leopold
Plans to protect air and water, wilderness and wildlife are, in fact, plans to protect man.
Stewart Udall
We won’t have a society if we destroy the environment.
Margaret Mead
The Earth is a fine place and worth fighting for.
Ernest Hemingway
Time spent among trees is never time wasted.
Katrina Mayer
The Earth has music for those who listen.
William Shakespeare
In nature, nothing exists alone.
Rachel Carson
The battle we have fought, and are still fighting, for the forests is part of the eternal conflict between right and wrong.
John Muir
The environment is not a luxury; it is a necessity.
Kofi Annan
Climate change is the defining issue of our time.
Ban Ki-moon
We must take care of the Earth because it is the only home we have.
Dalai Lama