Ted Turner Quotes

There are generations yet unborn, whose very lives will be shifted and shaped by the moves you make and the actions you take.

I think about the world that we leave behind for our children.

Everyone must be clear that business as usual is not an option. Most of us live in buildings erected long before we were born and our successors will have to live with the environmental consequences of the buildings we construct today. It is vital that we minimise harmful impacts for those who come after us

It is an old cliche to say that the future is in the hands of the young. This is no longer true. The quality of life to be enjoyed or the existence to be survived by our children and future generations is in our hands now.

What our Seventh Generation will have is a consequence of our actions today.

I gone on for years about the importance of thinking about the long term in relation to the environmental damage, climate change, and everything else because we don’t want to hand on an increasingly dysfunctional world to our grandchildren and I do not want to be confronted by my future grandchild saying, “Well why didn’t you do something?”

I haven't inherited the earth from my parents, I am borrowing it from my children.

No phenomenon can be isolated, but has repercussions through every aspect of our lives. We are learning that we are a fundamental part of nature's ecosystems.

Whatever we do or fail to do will influence the course of history.

The more we get out of the world the less we leave, and in the long run we shall have to pay our debts at a time that may be very inconvenient for our own survival.

Everyone lives downstream from someone else.

Land is not something you inherit from your parents. It is something you borrow from your children.

Sometimes I wake at 2 A.M. worrying that my great-granddaughter will have to march through her distant, broiling future gathering all the plastic I ever disposed of.

When I think about my legacy, I think about the world that we leave behind for our children.

When we look as a society, we've really lost the connection between our actions and the future.

I think my job is to leave some evidence for future generations that there was somebody who cared while we were destroying everything.

Growing up Marley, we wanted anything we put our hands on to be beneficial to the environment and the community.

We all have an obligation to pass on a better environment to our kids.

As we peer into society's future, we -- you and I, and our government -- must avoid the impulse to live only for today, plundering for our own ease and convenience the precious resources of tomorrow. We cannot mortgage the material assets of our grandchildren without risking the loss also of their political and spiritual heritage. We want democracy to survive for all generations to come, not to become the insolvent phantom of tomorrow.

We hold the future in our hands, together, we must ensure that our grandchildren will not have to ask why we failed to do the right thing, and let them suffer the consequences.

It is our responsibility to leave the people of the future a free hand.

We need to get a broader awareness. People say climate change is really bad, but painting that picture of what you're putting at risk.

Our choices at all levels-individual, community, corporate and government-affect nature. And they affect us.

I believe that success brings responsibility. It also does not bring immunity to the consequences of our quickening march towards oblivion. The bottom line is that all of us should be invovled in our own futures to create a world that our children will want to live in.

If we pass on an unsustainable environment to our children we have failed them.