Environmental History Quotes

#1. For anyone inclined to caricature environmental history as 'environmental determinism,' the contrasting histories of the Dominican Republic and Haiti provide a useful antidote. Yes, environmental problems do constrain human societies, but the societies' responses also make a difference.

Jared Diamond

#2. Compare two people, one of whom has been crippled by an accident, the other by an early environmental history which makes him lazy and, when criticized, mean. Both cause great inconvenience to others, but one dies a martyr, the other a scoundrel.

B.F. Skinner

#3. Environmental history fit[s] into the framework of New Left history. [It is] history "from the bottom up," except that here the exploited element [is] the biota and the land itself.

Roderick Nash

#4. I decided that now is the time to start doing the things that really interest me and I find important. It was in the 10 years of the MacArthur grant that I began working on my first book ... and I began putting more work into environmental history.

Jared Diamond

#5. Environmental history ... refer[s] to the past contact of man with his total habitat ... The environmental historian like the ecologist [s]hould think in terms of wholes, of communities, of interrelationships, and of balances.

Roderick Nash

#6. At the same time the folk boom was happening, the civil rights movement was happening, the anti-war movement was happening, the ban the bomb movement was happening, the environmental movement was happening. There was suddenly a generation ready to change the course of history.

Arlo Guthrie

#7. Government-mandated and -subsidized ethanol from corn will go down in history as the "Iraq War" of environmental solutions: ill-considered, costly, and disastrous.

Van Jones

#8. Who will bear witness to these small islands and oases of wildness as land is divided and sold to become strip malls, housing developments,and parking lots? What happens to the natural history here? We must bear witness.

Joni L. James

#9. It's always darkness before the dawn

Florence Welch

#10. I am an Instrument of Nature..Love is my message..

Michael Jackson

#11. When future generations judge those who came before them on environmental issues, they may conclude "they didn't know": let us not go down in history as the generations who knew, but didn't care

Mikhail Gorbachev

#12. For me, adventures are a vehicle for travelling deep into the fabric of society, coming to know the environmental conditions that shape people's lives and viewing the present in the context of history.

Tim Cope

#13. In 'Off to War, Voices of Soldier's Children,' kids from Canada and the United States talk about what it is like when their mother or father goes off to war - and comes home again.

Deborah Ellis

#14. Nothing can ever fix nature' not even all monies in the world and money rules, are never worthy following.

Auliq Ice

#15. For too much of history, we've viewed the world's precious resources - both environmental and human - as things to extract, to make the most of in order to maximize their potential.

Jacqueline Novogratz

#16. We study the past history, with the conscience of the present environmental changes; we can only predict the future ecological changes, by emergence of the past into the present.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#17. We console ourselves with the comfortable fallacy that a single museum piece will do, ignoring the clear dictum of history that a species must be saved in many places if it is to be saved at all.

Aldo Leopold

#18. If you look at the history of other movements, whether Civil Rights or environmental rights, these are all decades-long undertakings.

Mitch Kapor

#19. Cutting a tree down doesn't kill it; it erases it from history.

The Wombat

#20. We had little or no emotion. We lacked the capacity to feel fear, to experience love, to enjoy the sensations of happiness and delight.The finest warriors are not only those who do not fear, but those who are without anger.

Michael Scott

#21. Uh, Kels, this is Detective Alan Hagan, my partner. He's useless when I'm supposed to have the night off.

Abigail Roux

#22. Mankind has probably done more damage to the Earth in the 20th century than in all of previous human history.

Jacques-Yves Cousteau

#23. Have no fear. Trust in the vibrational currents of your life.

Alaric Hutchinson

#24. The BP spill was the greatest environmental catastrophe in U.S. history. Yet somehow, gas companies like BP and Halliburton ran interference on reporting that story.

Josh Fox

#25. 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

#26. There are no words that can tell the hidden spirit of the wilderness, that can reveal its mystery, its melancholy and its charm.

Theodore Roosevelt

#27. We are facing a tipping point of environmental crisis unprecedented in human history and our very survival is dependent on protecting nature.

Leonardo DiCaprio

#28. There is little history in the study of nature, and there is little nature in the study of history. I want to show how we can remedy that cultural lag by developing a new perspective on the historian's enterprise, one that will make us Darwinians at last.

Donald Worster

#29. If the long arc of history bends toward social justice, it also bends toward environmental justice and ecological sanity.

David Jaber

#30. Here we discover the paradox of the contemplative life, that the desert of solitude can be the school where we learn to love others.

Kathleen Norris

#31. It is the greatest scam in history. I am amazed, appalled and highly offended by it. Global Warming; It is a scam. Some dastardly scientists with environmental and political motives manipulated long term scientific data to create an illusion of rapid global warming.

John Coleman

#32. Before I liked cars, yachts, having a door to lock, and you.

Jennifer Lynn Barnes

#33. We're running the most dangerous experiment in history right now, which is to see how much carbon dioxide the atmosphere ... can handle before there is an environmental catastrophe.

Elon Musk

#34. The planetary phase of history has begun, but the future shape of global society remains profoundly uncertain. Though perhaps improbable, a shift toward a planetary civilization of enriched lives, human solidarity, and environmental sustainability is still possible.

Paul Raskin

#35. I have that working-class show-business blood coursing through my veins.

Jenny Lewis

#36. Overconsumption is the mother of all environmental problems. For the first time in the history of capitalism, consumption itself has become controversial.

Kalle Lasn