Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes

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

How much will you give for the lives of your childrens children, which is yourself? How much are people willing to give up for air, earth, water, animals, and the coming generations? I think the answer to that is pretty clear.

My efforts in Congress are guided by the belief that environmental preservation and restoration are a critical part of the legacy we leave to future generations.

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

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

We're busily wrecking the chances for future generations at a rapid rate of knots by not recognizing the damage we're doing to the natural environment, bearing in mind that this is the only planet that we know has any life on it.

Right now, we don't have a very good relation with creation.

If we intend to provide a better life, and a better world, for future generations, we can't ignore the quality of the environment we leave them.

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

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

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.

Our challenge for the future is that we realize we are very much a part of the earth's ecosystem, and we must learn to respect and live according to the basic biological laws of nature.

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

The only legacy I seek is the one that any grandparent seeks - that is, to hand off our nation... our fields and our farms to the next generation in better shape than we found it.

We can't continue to take from our planet the way we do and not give anything back, and the idea of, 'Oh, but it's fine, I won't have to deal with it in my lifetime,' well, you need to think about the future generations who will have to deal with it.

All too often, the conversation about appropriate and balanced environmental stewardship gets caught up in partisan politics. Yet, this conversation is key to the preservation of our great country for generations to come, as important as ensuring we have fiscally responsible policies to secure our future.

I think about the world that we leave behind for our children.

I never lose an opportunity to speak about my obsession: humankind and the environment.

The environment, what surrounds you, is so alive and delightful and complex.

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.

As founder and co-chair of the upper Mississippi River Congressional task force, I have long sought to preserve the river's health and historical multiple uses, including as a natural waterway and a home to wildlife, for the benefit of future generations of Americans.

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 it's important to be kind to the world before it disappears if we don't take care of it.

Nature has provided us a spectacular toolbox. The toolbox exists. An architect far better and smarter than us has given us that toolbox, and we now have the ability to use it.