David Grinspoon Quotes

For how many people do you think might yet stand on this planet before the sun grows cold? That's the responsibility we hold in our hands.

We seem to think we have some control over this planet.

We are going to learn how to relate to the Earth and our own natural environment here by looking seriously at space colony ecologies.

Wouldn't it help Americans more, in the long run, if we were forced to accept some responsibility for the environmental wreckage we prefer to assume is totally out of our control?

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.

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

If we do not permit the earth to produce beauty and joy, it will in the end not produce food, either.

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

The first rule of sustainability is to align with natural forces, or at least not try to defy them.

I really wonder what gives us the right to wreck this poor planet of ours.

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

The destruction of our environment and resources cannot be stemmed unless the growth of the world's population is stemmed and ultimately reduced.

We are going to inherit the earth; there is not the slightest doubt about that.

Environmental concern is now firmly embedded in public life: in education, medicine and law; in journalism, literature and art.

Helping people understand the impact of key environmental and human issues worldwide is something that I'm passionate about. CNN's 'Going Green' series of specials are engaging viewers around the world through important messages of conservation and hope.

We're not environmentally doing very good things to this planet, and we might not be around too long.

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.

The Anthropocentic Age - the first age in which humankind is the dominant species on the planet - cuts both ways: it is up to us to destroy or save the planet. We certainly have the ability.

I hardly can sleep. I feel that my target now is really to save Mother Earth for humanity. And it's doable.

Our challenge for the future is that we realize we are very much a part of the earth's ecosystem, and we must learn to respect and live according to the basic biological laws of nature.

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

We must give everyone a stake in the World’s environment.

Our Earth is talking to us, and we must listen to it and decipher its message if we want to survive.

We always have to remind ourselves of how fragile life on this planet is and what responsibilities we have.

Protecting our planet is a moral imperative.