Hugh Ross Quotes

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.

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

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

I maintain that if there is such a thing as a true and honest environmentalist, it's people like Slim and hopefully me, who have been caretakers of the land all our lives, along with the generations before us.

One Earth, one mother - one does not sell the Earth.

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.

Invoking Nature always measures the distance we have yet to travel to achieve real progress on environmental issues.

Raising awareness on the most pressing environmental issues of our time is more important than ever.

Genetic design is something we can use to fight the lack of sustainability we humans are forcing on the earth's environment.

I like the outdoors and the natural world. Environmental issues.

Even the people who come our way look upon us in amazement, that we run only for the healing of Mother Earth.

I have lots of heroes: anyone and everyone who does whatever they can to leave the natural world better than they found it.

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.

We owe it to ourselves and to the next generation to conserve the environment so that we can bequeath our children a sustainable world that benefits all.

I believe we should be good custodians of the Earth.

We can have technology, prosperity, nice homes and cars, but at the same time we must be conscious of what we are dumping into the water, the air and our food.

The most important environmental issue is one that is rarely mentioned, and that is the lack of a conservation ethic in our culture.

The earth is a tremendous gift. There is nothing else like it in the known universe. I want to leave it the way I found it.

We must not be the generation responsible for irreversibly damaging the environment. We must hand it over to our children in as near pristine condition as we were lent it from our parents.

To protect the natural environment is to protect the possibilities for youth.

The oldest task in human history: to live on a piece of land without spoiling it..

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

I have a major respect for nature. I'm an environmentalist.

The only thing I do for posterity is plant trees.

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?