Craig Venter Quotes

I see a future in which nature gives us a helping hand. Instead of destroying the natural world, why can't we use it to solve the kinds of problems that we are facing?

I think the greatest challenge in environmentalism and the most rewarding challenge is trying to figure out how humans can meet their needs while protecting the environment.

To waste, to destroy, our natural resources, to skin and exhaust the land instead of using it so as to increase its usefulness, will result in undermining in the days of our children the very prosperity which we ought by right to hand down to them amplified and developed.

This Earth is our only home. Together, we must protect and cherish it.

A nation that destroys its soils destroys itself. Forests are the lungs of our land, purifying the air and giving fresh strength to our people.

So often we talk about saving the planet, but what we really mean is to save the planet the way it is, so we can live here. So that is can sustain us.

I, Maggie, personally cannot tell you that you're going to save the planet. But what I do know is that we can draw a line to an issue that can conserve what we already have and what's left in a way that we can actually breathe the air, drink the water, actually grow things in soil - that matters in a real, practical way.

The natural capital is not income, but we spend our natural capital as if it were revenue, as if it were going to come back next year without any problems, whereas these renewals in nature can take hundreds of years.

People are beginning to realize that we need to live in accordance with the law of ecology, the law of finite resources, and if we don't, we're going to go extinct.

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

It is not enough to celebrate the earth and all its inhabitants, we must restore what we have destroyed.

How much longer, for instance, can we continue to crowd more and more people into this world? …. How long can we permit the uncontrolled use of the earth's resources when there is no possibility of replacing them? Indeed, how long will it be before we have completely used up everything our lives depend on? These issues are the politics of the future. Neither Republicans nor Democrats have begun to spell out in substantive fashion the means by which we can control population growth, environmental problems, and the conservation of our natural resources.

Our conservation laws are based on static ideas about nature—not landscapes that are rapidly changing because of something humans did.

As we look to the future, we cannot improve our living standards while simultaneously degrading the natural environment around us.

There can be no lasting prosperity for our people, if we do not protect our planet.

I agree on the need for environmental sustainability. It is no good raising gross national income while at the same time destroying natural assets.

God put the human race in charge of managing the resources of the entire planet for the benefit of all life. Therefore, we, of all people on this planet, should be concerned about environmental issues and doing what we can to enhance the beauty and productivity of the natural realm.

Good stewardship of the environment and our natural resources is necessary.

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.

You should issue demerits for tree cutting or the destruction of humus.

My main issue is sustainability of the Earth, and protection of those animals and people who dwell here.

The planet will adapt to anything. Maybe we should start to use the heart and the brain that we've been given to organize ourselves. Because if we keep screwing up things, we may be just passing by in the history of the planet.

The further human society drifts away from nature, the less we understand interdependence.

Unless we keep this planet healthy, everything else is for naught.

We see an entire planet which has many limitations.