"...environmental communication is 'the pragmatic and constitutive vehicle for our understanding of the environment as well as our relationships to the natural world'."—Robert Cox
"All communication involves an environmental dimension, because symbolic and natural systems are mutually constituted. Humans are one part of the broader ecosystems and cultures we inhabit, both shaping and shaped by our corporeal, intellectual, spiritual, emotional, and physical alienation from and proximity to those spaces and communities."—Environmental Communication Network