32 Quotes About Environmental Degradation

The world is full of natural wonders that can inspire us to do more, be more, and strive for excellence every day. Whether you’re an avid hiker, a nature lover, or just want to inspire others, these environmental quotes are here to help you spread the word about the beauty of our planet.

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At times there's something so precise and mathematically chilling about nationalism. Build a dam to take away water AWAY from 40 million people. Build a dam to pretend to BRING water to 40 million people. Who are these gods that govern us? Is there no limit to their powers? Arundhati Roy
God's will has to be done, in unifying people and...
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God's will has to be done, in unifying people and companies to get that gas line built, so pray for that. Sarah Palin
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The world has a very serious problem, my friend' Shiva went on. 'Poor children still die by their millions. Westerners and the global rich -- like me -- live in post-scarcity society, while a billion people struggle to get enough to eat. And we're pushing the planet towards a tipping point, where the corals die and the forests burn and life becomes much, much harder. We have the resources to solve those problems, even now, but politics and economics and nationalism all get in the way. If we could access all those minds, though.. Ramez Naam
What melody will our rivers remember if songbirds forget how...
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What melody will our rivers remember if songbirds forget how to sing? Sheniz Janmohamed
Mankind willfully changing the global electromagnetic radiation environment has created...
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Mankind willfully changing the global electromagnetic radiation environment has created what I expect will become known as the man-made evolution era. Steven Magee
Modify the environmental radiation and you will change the course...
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Modify the environmental radiation and you will change the course of evolution. Steven Magee
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I have every expectation that cancer will become known as the disease of human evolution trying and failing to adapt to a significantly changed environment. Steven Magee
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If human beings cannot inhabit the earth, where else could they live? Lailah Gifty Akita
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The city is dirty due to the laziness of the citizens in the country. Lailah Gifty Akita
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If men would understand and appreciate the good efforts that went into creation and how beautiful, good and awesome the creations were at the beginning, they would never think of undermining the Creators effort and integrity by destroying the beauty of nature! God is watching us! Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
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The love for God is the love to protect the environment. Lailah Gifty Akita
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Laziness has made our cities unclean. If we begin to work and act appropriately, we will clean our cities of any dirt. Lailah Gifty Akita
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Incorrect radiation levels may be able to affect your sex drive and it may be proven in the future that human sex drive is governed more by radiation types and levels than any other factor, even more so than hormones! Generally, a feeling of contentment replaces sexual desire in natural radiation environments. Steven Magee
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You have a responsibility to keep your homes, surroundings and city clean. Lailah Gifty Akita
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The future of the next generation relies on astronomers obtaining a full understanding ofthe rapidly changing human environmental conditions and the halting of biologically toxic corporategovernment policies. The overloading of the electromagnetic environment is one of these disastrouspolicies that must stop. Steven Magee
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The human body when kept in an indoor environment of low lux light will not realize that it is daytime, as it cannot sense the increasing levels of daylight that the genetics are accustomed to. As such, by late morning your body may start sending a signal for you to sleep! Steven Magee
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He citizens must begin to work to clean the city and country of any dirt. Lailah Gifty Akita
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Living in filth is dark doom. The light of awaken leads to cleanliness. Lailah Gifty Akita
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The human skin evolved in a natural electromagnetic radiation environment and is now in a very unnatural man-made one that is making many people sick. Steven Magee
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Ionizing smoke detectors unnaturally raise the background radiation levels in the human environment. Steven Magee
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Any species that devours its natural environment will eventually fall victim to the resulting silence and I call the toxicity of silence: Extinction Silence Steven Magee
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Unless government appropriately regulates oil developments and holds oil executives accountable, the public will not trust them to drill, baby, drill. And we must! Sarah Palin
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A very large percentage of illnesses are the expressions of inadequate responses to the environment. Unknown
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There were three people in my home and I was the only one showing Electromagnetic Hypersensitivity and reactivity to the radio frequency transmitting utility meters. For these reasons I did not shield my home and took the route of adapting my body to the toxic electromagnetic environment. Steven Magee
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Make no mistake. The greatest destroyer of ecology. The greatest source of waste, depletion and pollution. The greatest purveyor of violence, war, crime, poverty, animal abuse and inhumanity. The greatest generator of personal and social neurosis, mental disorders, depression, anxiety. Not to mention the greatest source of social paralysis, stopping us from moving into new methodologies for personal health, global sustainability and progress on this planet, is not some corrupt government or legislation. Not some rogue corporation or banking cartel. Not some flaw of human nature and not some secret cabal that controls the world. It is the socioeconomic system itself at its very foundation. Peter Joseph
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God gave man the authority to rule and protect all the animals in the aquatic ecosystems. Lailah Gifty Akita
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I have never heard of an electromagnetically hypersensitive person recovering from the condition using shielding and Faraday cages, they just seem to become social lepers due to their increasing reactivity to the city environment and addicts to their shielded environment. Steven Magee
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Most police cars are the equivalent of an electrical room on wheels and it does not surprise me that police officers that spend time in such a biologically toxic environment are displaying aggression. Steven Magee
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Extinction, the irrevocable loss of a species, causes pain that can never find relief. It is an ache that will pass from generation to generation for the rest of human history. Callum Roberts
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The global industrial economy is the engine for massive environmental degradation and massive human (and nonhuman) impoverishment. Derrick Jensen
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Where there is poverty, there will be destruction and exploitation by the corporations and governments benefitting from destroying our rainforests and trafficking wildlife. Eileen Anglin