Neil deGrasse Tyson Quotes

I think there is a way to do things right to tread lightly on the world

My mother taught me when you go someplace, you leave it better than you found it.

Working for the earth is not a way to get rich, it is a way to be rich.

We are no longer inheriting the Earth from our parents, we are stealing it from our children.

If you are doing the right thing for the earth, she's giving you great company.

In time, we will have to recognise that it is not 'nature' that we need to protect, but ourselves, and we can only do this by abandoning the old, grandiose, profit-seeking schemes so beloved of our masters and learning to till the soil, live to scale, and live within our means.

I haven't inherited the earth from my parents, I am borrowing it from my children.

We owe at least this much to future generations, from whom we have borrowed a fragile planet called Earth.

The only thing that can save us as a species is seeing how we're not thinking about future generations in the way we live.

Land is not something you inherit from your parents. It is something you borrow from your children.

The dinosaurs aren't remembered for much more than their bones. When humanity's gone, what do we give to this little planet that we're on, and what could we do collectively, removing the pride?

I think my job is to leave some evidence for future generations that there was somebody who cared while we were destroying everything.

I care about this beautiful planet that we all share. This is a home that we have to leave in good shape for the next generations.

We can at least see that the question is asked, and asked on the basis of a clear recognition that there is no way of manipulating our environment that is without cost or consequence - and thus also of a recognition that we are inextricably bound up with the destiny of our world. There is no guarantee that the world we live in will "tolerate" us indefinitely if we prove ourselves unable to live within its constraints.

As long as we are graceful, appreciative lodgers, the earth remains healthy and wondrous.

The single greatest lesson the garden teaches is that our relationship to the planet need not be zero-sum, and that as long as the sun still shines and people still can plan and plant, think and do, we can, if we bother to try, find ways to provide for ourselves without diminishing the world.

This beautiful Earth that we have, this gift that the Universe has given us is precious beyond measure, precious beyond imagination, and we are part of it and we must treat it with Love, respect, and reverence.

We could overcome the baser aspects of our nature... and give this planet the kind of caretakers it deserves.

Before Man goes to the stars he should learn how to live on Earth .

Leave every environment you go into better than you found it.

Everyone must be clear that business as usual is not an option. Most of us live in buildings erected long before we were born and our successors will have to live with the environmental consequences of the buildings we construct today. It is vital that we minimise harmful impacts for those who come after us

Be a good ancestor. Stand for something bigger than yourself. Add value to the Earth during your sojourn.

Perhaps, one of our greatest challenges as a nation, as a people, as human beings making sure that our grandkids can live on this Earth.

We cannot tire or give up. We owe it to the present and future generations of all species to rise up and walk!

We lose the forest for the trees, forgetting, even so far as we think at all, that we are trustees for those who come after us, squandering the patrimony which we have received.