Gaylord Nelson Quotes (20 Quotes)

President Bush calls himself an environmentalist. I think his heart's in the right place, but he hasn't demonstrated any leadership.

The month of April 2000 will provide an unprecedented showcase for the clean energy options available to individuals, businesses and the government, ... As tens of millions of people take action to support clean energy during Earth Month, the 'New Energy for a New Era' campaign will catapult us toward a clean and affordable energy future.

John McConnell may have used the phrase Earth Day before we did, (but) he knows our events were not similar. Ours was a political exercise. His was a peace exercise.

It was truly an astonishing grassroots explosion, ... The objective was to get a nationwide demonstration of concern for the environment so large that it would shake the political establishment out of its lethargy.

The threat of nuclear war isn't nearly as important as the threat of the destruction of our resource base which sustains us.

Franklin Roosevelt was very concerned about environmental issues.

Teddy Roosevelt of course was a great outdoorsman all his life.

We're going to have to do a whole lot more, and give nature at least a chance to repair some of the damage we've done.

Nuclear war is not inevitable, but major degradation of our environment with grave consequences is inevitable unless we reverse the trend.

Loads of chemicals and hazardous wastes have been introduced into the atmosphere that didn't even exist in 1948. The environmental condition of the planet is far worse than it was 42 years ago.

We must recognize that we're all part of a web of life around the world. Anytime you extinguish a species, the consequences are serious.

I think the internal combustion engine will disappear from the streets of our cities in the next thirty years because transportation will be mass transportation, or probably electrical power.

The issues are by some geometric number - 100 or 200 or 500 - times more complicated today than we appreciated them to be when Franklin Roosevelt was around.

I don't think most people understand where we're headed.

In the last half century we haven't had Presidential leadership that addressed this question in the broadest and most important aspect.

The most important environmental issue is one that is rarely mentioned, and that is the lack of a conservation ethic in our culture.

The fights in future will not be over whether we ought to do something, but over how we ought to do it, and that's a reasonable debate.

If we continue to address the issue of the environment where we live as though we're the only species that lives here, we'll create a disaster for ourselves.

Population and immigration are very difficult issues to discuss. Democrats and Republicans alike - for very different reasons - avoid it,

In the state of Wisconsin it's mandated that teachers in the social sciences and hard sciences have to start giving environmental education by the first grade, through high school.