Famous Quotes

"I took the initiative in moving forward a whole range of initiatives that have proven to be important to our country's economic growth, environmental protection, improvements in our educational system."

Al Gore on Environmental

More quotes about Environmental

• "The environment is everything that isn't me."

  Albert Einstein on Environmental

• "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world indeed, it's the only thing that ever has."

  Margaret Mead on Environmental

• "Keep close to Nature's heart... and break clear away, once in awhile, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean."

  John Muir on Environmental

• "Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth."

  Henry David Thoreau on Environmental

• "God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fools."

  John Muir on Environmental

More quotes by Al Gore

• "America's political system has evolved over the last 50 years in ways that have enhanced the power of business lobbies."

• "Consider what kind of car you get. Buy cars and other products that have the least impact environmentally."

• "As human beings, we are vulnerable to confusing the unprecedented with the improbable. In our everyday experience, if something has never happened before, we are generally safe in assuming it is not going to happen in the future, but the exceptions can kill you and climate change is one of those exceptions."

• "As I have said for many years throughout this land, we're borrowing money from China to buy oil from the Persian Gulf to burn it in ways that destroy the future of human civilization. Every bit of that has to change."

• "A zebra does not change its spots."