Annie Leibovitz Quotes

Hopefully, generations after us will continue to protect, preserve, and look after this wonderful land.

I don't believe that anyone can see the Grand Canyon area for themselves and not know that we have to do everything we can to protect it for future generations.

This land, this water, this air, this planet - this is our legacy to our young.

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.

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

Instead of passing on choppy waters to the next generation, we should endeavor to leave them a calmer sea.

Ask any parent what we want for our children, and invariably we say 'a better life.' To that end, we give our time, our sleep, our money, and our dreams, much as our parents did before us. We all want a better life for our children. But what we want for them ceases to matter if we leave them an unlivable world.

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.

I can't think of anything more important than the environment we leave to our children and our children's children.

A man doesn't plant a tree for himself. He plants it for posterity.

We strongly feel we have to protect everything.

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 oldest task in human history: to live on a piece of land without spoiling it..

Let's try to protect everything that's important to us.

We need to put our priority on protecting this exceptional way of life.

I do hope there are other wonderful planets living and thriving out there, but ours is special because it is ours and ours to take care of. We really can't take that too lightly.

I feel that our planet is in peril and that creating a sustainable planet for my children and my children's children is the most important thing I can do in this lifetime.

President Obama believes that we have a moral obligation to the next generation to leave our land, water, and wildlife better than we found it.

I plant a lot of trees. I am a great believer in planting things for future generations. I loathe the now culture where you just live for today.

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

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.

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

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

Each generation takes the earth as trustees. We ought to bequeath to posterity as many forests and orchards as we have exhausted and consumed.

I think we need to take responsibility for the things we put on this planet, and also take responsibility for the things we take off the planet. We need to have limiters on how far we allow ourselves to go - ethical, moral limiters.