Annie Lennox Quotes

Giving my contribution to protect and respect the environment, as well as its inhabitants, makes me feel happy.

Environmentalism opposes reckless innovation and makes conservation the central order of business.

I really hope that we'll have a sustainable future on this planet, I really do. So I probably geek out mostly about learning more about how potentially we can hopefully make that happen, hopefully we're not too far lost.

I know they are all environmentalists. I heard a lot of my speeches recycled.

So I'm going to go on and work on preserving the ozone layer, encouraging everyone to recycle.

To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival.

We owe it to each other - and to our children and grandchildren - to leave our planet in a better state than when we found it.

We decided that the environment was an integral part of our policies and the political thrust of our government. We gave it the priority and we sustained it with the money required to make it happen.

Earth Day should encourage us to reflect on what we are doing to make our planet a more sustainable and livable place.

I think the new generation is much more demanding about respect for the environment than we have ever imagined.

Resources businesses must contribute to sustainable development if we are to continue to have access to resources.

We can power our economy without despoiling our wild places.

If there is a future, it will be Green.

Conservation is for guilty people on Park Avenue with poodles and Pekingeses.

We need to promote development that does not destroy our environment.

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

We must preserve our planet and grow our economy simultaneously. We cannot become more prosperous without the living systems upon which our prosperity depends.

I'm on the board of the Sierra Club Foundation and am myself a big environmentalist. But the way to make the biggest difference is to change mainstream behavior.

I'm not an environmentalist. I'm a cultural repairman. It's all about efficient and restorative use of resources to make the world secure, prosperous and life-sustaining.

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

The environmental movement doesn't have many deserters and has a high level of recruitment. Eventually, there will be open war.

The strongest governments on earth cannot clean up pollution by themselves. They must rely on each ordinary person, like you and me, on our choices, and on our will.

Greenhouse gas production, water usage and environmental issues more broadly are being mitigated by Canadian technological advances more and more each year.

If conservation isn't conservative, then words have no meaning at all.

There are a lot of people who want to leave their children with a world that is in better shape.