Frances Arnold Quotes

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.

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

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

The only way forward, if we are going to improve the quality of the environment, is to get everybody involved.

Local innovation and initiative can help us better understand how to protect our environment.

Even the government understands that the environmental challenge is so big that no single agency can handle it. It needs collaboration among all the stakeholders - companies, governments, NGOs and the public. Public accountability will be the ultimate driving force.

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

Earth Day 1970 was irrefutable evidence that the American people understood the environmental threat and wanted action to resolve it.

I think an old style of addressing environmental problems is ebbing, but the rise of the so-called conservative, political movement in this country is not a trend towards the future but a reaction to this very broad shift that we are undergoing.

It is a wonderful honor to receive the Audubon Medal from the National Audubon Society, which for more than a century has fought tirelessly to protect and preserve our natural resources and environment for future generations.

I travel all over the country speaking to young people, and I am always amazed at how engaged in environmental conservation they are.

I feel very passionately that we need to take care of the planet and everything on it. Whether it's saving the Amazon or just being kind to those around you, we need to take care of each other and Mother Earth.

Why has it seemed that the only way to protect the environment is with heavy-handed government regulation?

I believe we should be good custodians of the Earth.

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

The future will either be green or not at all.

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 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.

One of the most beautiful sights is when the rim of the Earth is bright on one side, and you see this defined line of the atmosphere. You see how close and thin it is. We've got to be careful. We've got to take care of this planet.

When you care about something, that's when you want to save it. I want to bring that to storytelling - to make saving the world sexy.

Whether that be starting conversations about environmental conservation or taking part in being a voice for people who don't have a voice, I just want to help people however I can.

As cheesy as it sounds, truly every day is Earth Day.

Ever since the environmental movement was sparked by photos of the whole Earth taken by astronauts onboard Apollo Lunar Modules, I've seen planetary exploration as an extension of a reverence and care for Earth.

The most patriotic thing you can do is to take care of the environment and try to live sustainably.