environmentalism
Environmentalism is an intellectual or artistic movement that has shaped the ideas of many notable thinkers throughout history.
9 thinkers285 quotesTop field: Philosophy
"Plants, animals, and stars are all kept in place, bridled along appointed ways, with one another, and through the midst of one another — killing and being killed, eating and being eaten, in harmonious proportions and quantities."
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John Muir
Philosophy
environmentalism
1838–1914
"Living artificially in towns, we are sickly, and never come to know ourselves."
163 quotes
🇬🇧David Attenborough
Science
environmentalism
b. 1926
"I'm not an animal lover if that means you think things are nice if you can pet them, but I am intoxicated by animals."
57 quotes
🇺🇸Harrison Ford
Entertainment
environmentalism
b. 1942
"You know you are getting old when all the names in your black book have MD after them."
23 quotes
🇺🇸Jeremy Rifkin
Literature
environmentalism
b. 1945
18 quotes
🇨🇦Severn Cullis-Suzuki
Social Activism
environmentalism
b. 1979
"If you don’t know how to fix it, please, stop breaking it."
3 quotes
🇨🇭Jacques Dubochet
Ethics
environmentalism
b. 1942
"Reasonably, all these investments are financial dead-ends or ecological disasters."
4 quotes
🇺🇸John Muir (indologist)
Philosophy
environmentalism
1838–1914
"“The materials in these still standard books never betray the author’s original purpose in amassing them: to demonstrate that Christianity is rationally superior to Hinduism."
6 quotes
🇺🇸Alexandria Villaseñor
Social Activism
environmentalism
b. 2005
"Eighty years from now, our grandchildren can yell, 'Hey Zoomers."
7 quotes
🇺🇸Elinor Ostrom
Economics
environmentalism
1933–2012
4 quotes
Notable Quotes
"Living artificially in towns, we are sickly, and never come to know ourselves."
— John Muir, b. 1838View →
"I'm not an animal lover if that means you think things are nice if you can pet them, but I am intoxicated by animals."
— David Attenborough, b. 1926View →
"Of all the fire-mountains which, like beacons, once blazed along the Pacific Coast, Mount Rainier is the noblest."
— John Muir, b. 1838View →
"Keep close to Nature's heart … and break clear away, once in a while, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean."
— John Muir, b. 1838View →
"Reptiles and amphibians are sometimes thought of as primitive, dull and dimwitted. In fact, of course, they can be lethally fast, spectacularly beautiful, surprisingly affectionate and very sophisticated."
— David Attenborough, b. 1926View →