Leonard Peltier Quotes

Humans merely share the earth. We can only protect the land, not own it.

Elves live in harmony with the world, and I try to do that.

You want to live in harmony with nature and with each other.

If we don't start acknowledging our correct position as nothing more than a part of the planet as opposed to this perception that we're superior, then we won't have it much longer. We're facing a very turbulent, war-torn, drought-ridden existence for future generations unless we act now.

We are not talking about esthetics. We are talking about life: survival of Man. We must train young people to get another vision of Nature. We call it 'wilderness,' and we think it is progress to get further and further away from it. How crazy! Where would we have been if Nature had not built us up?

We need to figure out how to have the things we love, and not destroy the world.

Respect Mother Earth and her giving ways or trade away our children's days.

Ultimately, the decision to save the environment must come from the human heart. The key point is a call for a genuine sense of universal responsibility that is based on love, compassion and clear awareness.

A true conservationist is a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers, but borrowed from his children.

If we're destroying our trees and destroying our environment and hurting animals and hurting one another and all that stuff, there's got to be a very powerful energy to fight that. I think we need more love in the world. We need more kindness, more compassion, more joy, more laughter. I definitely want to contribute to that.

Act so that the effects of your actions are compatible with the permanence of genuine human life.

We talk of our mastery of nature, which sounds very grand; but the fact is we respectfully adapt ourselves, first, to her ways.

People protect what they love.

Nothing was made by God for man to spoil or destroy.

Love em or leave em; just don’t destroy em.

You only protect what you love, and you only love what you know.

We need to create a culture of care-taking. In which no one and nowhere is thrown away. In which the inherent value of all people and every ecosystem is foundational.

Today, more than ever before, life must be characterized by a sense of Universal responsibility, not only nation to nation and human to human, but also human to other forms of life.

Everything has a right to live.

Seems to me, it aint the world that's so bad but what we're doin' to it. And all I'm saying is, see, what a wonderful world it would be if only we'd give it a chance. Love baby, love. That's the secret...

Conservation is not merely a question of morality, but a question of our own survival.

The proper use of science is not to conquer nature but to live in it.

The natural environment sustains the life of all beings universally.

To this day, I enjoy nature, the luxury of undisturbed wilderness, forests, mountains, lakes, rivers and deserts and their wildlife. But I also know that the greatest danger to their perpetuity is the pressure of human population.

The basis for peace is respecting all creatures.