Jay Parini Quotes

We are now heading down a centuries-long path toward increasing the productivity of our natural capital - the resource systems upon which we depend to live - instead of our human capital.

Fossil fuels and mining is a short-term gambit. If we develop those resources at the expense of the environmental gold mine that is the Great Barrier Reef, we will all lose in the long run.

Each generation takes the earth as trustees. We ought to bequeath to posterity as many forests and orchards as we have exhausted and consumed.

We're busily wrecking the chances for future generations at a rapid rate of knots by not recognizing the damage we're doing to the natural environment, bearing in mind that this is the only planet that we know has any life on it.

If nature were a bank, they would have already rescued it.

Governments at all levels and the whole society should act more vigorously to protect the land our lives depend on.

We owe it to each other - and to our children and grandchildren - to leave our planet in a better state than when we found it.

I wouldn't want anyone to destroy the earth.

Conservation is a state of harmony between men and land.

I think the environment should be put in the category of our national security. Defense of our resources is just as important as defense abroad. Otherwise what is there to defend?

On Earth Day, we celebrate all the gifts the world and nature make available to us. We recognize our complete dependence on its bounty. And we acknowledge the need for good stewardship to preserve its fruits for future generations.

Putting our ecosystem in great peril is certainly not a part of Chinese culture that I know.

How we treat the earth basically effects our social welfare and our national security.

This is a truth that should be repeated like a mantra: to have any chance of a ful - filling life, we require not only clean air and a steady climate, but also an abundance of meadows and woodlands, rivers and oceans, teeming with life and the mass existence of other living creatures.

We can make a concerted effort to stop poisoning the planet: that would be a good way of appeasing the gods.

Conservation is not without a cost.

The purpose of the Conservation movement is to make our country a permanent and prosperous home for ourselves, and for our children, and for our children’s children.

Just as we demand that our governments address risks associated with terrorism or epidemics, we should put concerted pressure on them to act now to preserve our natural environment and curb climate change.

I will end the lawlessness that's destroying our environment. I will take polluters to court, not to lunch.

We have a responsibility to Mother Earth to protect it as much as possible.

We can see the weather change, that the birds don't come to the city anymore... we seriously have to think about preserving nature.

The big goal - and it sounds crazy - is to save as much life on Earth as possible.

First we must learn to love nature. Then comes conservation.

We've been at war with nature. Now we need to apologize and clean up.

The city of the future development will be shifted from the pursuit of material civilisation to the pursuit of nature. This is what happens after human beings experience industrial civilisation at the expense of the natural environment.