Quotes About The Sierra Club

#1. The Sierra Club is a very good and a very powerful force for conservation and, as a matter of fact, has grown faster since I left than it was growing while I was there! It must be doing something right.

David R. Brower

#2. I'm on the board of the Sierra Club Foundation and am myself a big environmentalist. But the way to make the biggest difference is to change mainstream behavior.

Lynn Jurich

#3. There's more to being an environmentalist than occasionally signing an online petition and mailing your check to the Sierra Club. Really the most effective environmental actions you can take have to do with crafting your home and surroundings, your workplace decisions and your investment habits.

Alex Steffen

#4. I think the Sierra Club is the environmental group that has the best chance of really accomplishing things. It's well known, and it actually gets down to doing the dirty work of protecting the environment.

Tom Scholz

#5. I founded Friends of the Earth to make the Sierra Club look reasonable. Then I founded the Earth Island Institute to make Friends of the Earth seem reasonable.

David Foreman

#6. When do we ask the Sierra Club to pick up the tab for this leak?

Rush Limbaugh

#7. Once we get three more directors elected, the Sierra Club will no longer be pro-hunting and pro-trapping and we can use the resources of the $95-million-a-year budget to address some of these issues.

Paul Watson

#8. That area environmentally is a waste. You can't do anything. I don't care if the Sierra Club goes out there. It is fully polluted! You're not only going to work to clean up the environment, but also you will put people to work.

Richard M. Daley

#9. I sort of kept my hand in writing and went to work for the Sierra Club in '52, walked the plank there in '69, founded Friends of the Earth and the League of Conservation Voters after that.

David R. Brower

#10. There really wasn't an environmental movement 30 years ago. The Sierra Club national office in 1969 consisted of one full-time volunteer.

Denis Hayes

#11. By law, super PACs are required to disclose their donors. There are groups that have never had to disclose their donors, non-profits such as the Sierra Club, Planned Parenthood, the NAACP, and the NRA. If you want more disclosure, super PACs are a step forward.

Bradley A. Smith

#12. The Sierra Club in the United States has now really come out for population control and reduction.

Susan George

#13. Edgar Wayburn has worked to preserve the most breath-taking examples of the American landscape. In fact, over the course of more than a half-century, both as President of the Sierra Club and as a private citizen, he has saved more of our wilderness than any person alive.

William J. Clinton

#14. From high school, you can see my Sierra Club card - I've been a member since 1979. That gives you an indication of early interest.

Mike Quigley

#15. Quality and service are important, if you want to make a sale. If you want to keep a customer for life, keep your promises.

Heidi

#16. The power of the state is measured by the power that men surrender to it.

Felix Morley

#17. It was actually the enormous risks I took with my pictures, skating right up to the edge of non-acceptance, that paid off so handsomely.

Preston Sturges

#18. Dating someone exclusively for four months in New York is like four years in Anchorage.

Zack Love

#19. All you need to get to heaven is a good pair of boots.

Shelton Johnson

#20. When religious leaders get involved in elections, it is usually with a reactionary social agenda.

Elizabeth Joan Smith