Climate Quotes

“Caelum non animum mutant qui trans mare currunt.
(They change their sky, not their soul, who rush across the sea.)”
― Horace, The Odes of Horace

“Gardening is easier and quicker when spacings are correct for different plants.”
― Charles Dowding, Charles Dowding's Skills for Growing

“Progress is measured by the speed at which we destroy the conditions that sustain life.”
― George Monbiot

“Keep an open mind and try some new methods.”
― Charles Dowding, Charles Dowding's Skills for Growing

“Try things out, be happy to make mistakes, but above all have a go.”
― Charles Dowding, Charles Dowding's Skills for Growing

“Once your soil is fertile and weed-free, everything else becomes easier.”
― Charles Dowding, Charles Dowding's Skills for Growing

“If we take all this actions and if it turns out not be true, we have reduced pollution and have better ways to live, the downside is very small. The other way around, and we don’t act, and it turns out to be true, then we have betrayed future generations and we don’t have the right to do that.”
― Tony Blair

“I worry that if we don’t act quickly, the delicate balance of nature will be lost.”
― Suman Pokhrel

“It is pointless waiting for perfect weather. You’ll never get anywhere or do anything worthwhile if you do. Perfect weather never comes, and even if it comes, it doesn’t last long. Make a move. Make a move now.”
― Bhuwan Thapaliya

“The bad news is that, measured in terms of geologic time, if the Earth’s history is an accurate guide, glaciers will soon return to more southerly latitudes of the Northern Hemisphere.”
― Andrew Bernstein, The Truth About Climate Change: Is nature’s inherent dynamism responsible for the climate change of our era? Or are the cause(s) man-made?

“The use of crude oil enabled humanity to reach a higher level of prosperity”
― Gun Gun Febrianza

“Are these the birthing days of the end? Or are they perhaps the birth of a new beginning?”
― H. C. Roberts

“Are these the birthing days of the end? Or are they perhaps the birth of a new beginning?”
― H.C. Roberts, Harp and the Lyre: Extraction

“The roaring of the seas; the turmoil of the sands; the howling of the winds; the fall of the hail; the burning sulphur. Woeful was the episode of the unexpected.”
― H.C. Roberts, Harp and the Lyre: Exchange

“I'm not denying other forms of damage to the climate... I'm simply saying we can't have a legitimate discussion about climate anything from any perspective without first and foremost focusing on the climate engineering elephant in the equation.”
― Dane Wigington

“Time passed, and the world above seemed to forget the danger lurking beneath.”
― Aaron Gilbee, How to Catch a Níð-höggr: Without Popping the World

“One ancient account claims it was vast enough to gnaw at the roots of the World Tree itself. If true, its size could be unimaginable.”
― Aaron Gilbee, How to Catch a Níð-höggr: Without Popping the World

“At first, the damage seemed insignificant. But when the first heavy rain fell, the saturated ground gave way, collapsing ...”
― Aaron Gilbee, How to Catch a Níð-höggr: Without Popping the World

“though masters of air currents, had never encountered such a beast before. They hadn’t the faintest clue what it was, let alone how it thrived. All they knew was that it was moving, causing quakes and shaking the ground beneath a volcano, its rumblings a terrible drumbeat rumbling through the earth’s mantle.”
― Aaron Gilbee, How to Catch a Níð-höggr: Without Popping the World

“Climate change is the most fascinating scientific, political, and social puzzle in history.”
― Gun Gun Febrianza

“Climate Change is the politicization of science”
― Gun Gun Febrianza

“ESG demands that businesses prove they're not just profit machines but responsible stakeholders.”
― Gun Gun Febrianza

“One thing I have learned is that the most effective strategy at all times and in all places--in court, in politics, and in life--is centering your heart with the most vulnerable people and animals and ecosystems, and then relentlessly telling the truth about what you see.”
― Alec Karakatsanisat

“As I grew up, crisis slid from distant threat to imminent probability, and we tuned it out like static, we adjusted to each emergent normality and did what we had always done - the commutes and holidays, the Friday big shops, day trips to the countryside, afternoons in the park. We did these things not out of ignorance, but only because there seemed nothing else to do -and we did them as well because they were a kind of fine-grained incantation, made in flesh and time. The unexalted, tedious familiarity of our daily lives would keep us safe, we thought...”
― Jessie Greengrass, The High House

“The environment demands responsibility from every choice we make. Sustainable living is not just a trend, but a moral obligation to protect the planet for future generations. Awareness and action go hand in hand; small steps collectively have the power to create monumental change.”
― Shivanshu K. Srivastava

“When they say there’s nothing like climate change, I am quickly reminded that God has so many reasons for regretting creating man.”
― Nkwachukwu Ogbuagu

“Did God regret creating man? I am sure he did. See what man is doing to the planet.”
― Nkwachukwu Ogbuagu

“На противагу думки його невідгонної доброзичливиці «люба серцю мала батьківщина» насправді прибрала не такого вигляду, наче вона стоїть на порозі кінця світу, а радше що вже пережила його.”
― Ласло Краснагоркаї

“I was oppressed by the sense of universal strangeness, by the chill of approaching catastrophe, the menace of ruins suspended above; and also by the enormity of what had been done, the weight of collective guilt. A frightful crime had been committed, against nature, against the universe, against life. By rejecting life, man had destroyed the immemorial order, destroyed the world; now everything was about to crash down in ruins.”
― Anna Kavan, Ice

“We do not own the Earth. We borrow it from the generations who will remember what we did here.”
― Lawrence Nault