"Franklin Roosevelt was very concerned about environmental issues."
― Gaylord Nelson
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Environmental
― Gaylord Nelson
More From Gaylord Nelson
- "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."
- "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."
- "The most important environmental issue is one that is rarely mentioned, and that is the lack of a conservation ethic in our culture."
More In Environmental
- "In Kenya women are the first victims of environmental degradation, because they are the ones who walk for hours looking for water, who fetch firewood, who provide food for their families."― Wangari Maathai
- "Birds are indicators of the environment. If they are in trouble, we know we’ll soon be in trouble."― Roger Tory Peterson
- "What I have experienced over time is that environmental problems are easier to deal with in ways that don’t go into their interconnections to the rest of what we are."― Barry Commoner