Nikki Reed Quotes

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.

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.

We need to have a vision of the world we want to create so that we can see ourselves as collaborators with future generations in the project of shaping it.

I don’t know how to save the world. I don’t have the answers or The Answer. I hold no secret knowledge as to how to fix the mistakes of generations past and present. I only know that without compassion and respect for all of Earth’s inhabitants, none of us will survive—nor will we deserve to.

My mission is to create a world where we can live in harmony with nature. And can I do that alone? No. So there is a whole army of youth that can do it. So I suppose my mission is to reach as many of those young people as I can through my own efforts.

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

Protecting the environment is really important to everyone's welfare - that of our children, as well as that of the future generations.

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

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

This planet came with a set of instructions, but we seem to have misplaced them. Civilization needs a new operating system.

Act so that the effects of your actions are compatible with the permanence of genuine human life.

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.

For too long, humanity has acted with an outrageous lack of responsibility. We wanted everything for ourselves: greed, really. We failed to look at the overall picture and did not take into consideration those with whom we share the world.

We're not passengers on Spaceship Earth. We're the crew.

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

We are living beyond our means. As a people we have developed a life-style that is draining the earth of its priceless and irreplaceable resources without regard for the future of our children and people all around the world.

Rather than rewarding today’s voters with benefits financed by future generations, as Congress typically does, solving the climate problem will require costly actions now to protect those who will follow us.

Anybody who doesn't see the impact of climate change is really, I would say, myopic. They don't see the reality. It's so evident that we are destroying Mother Earth. This is not the problem of one country or a few countries: it is the problem of mankind. We need to work together to stop this. Otherwise, our future generations will simply disappear.

When you run a company, you want to hand it off in better shape than you found it. In the same way, just as we shouldn't leave our children or grandchildren with mountains of national debt and unsustainable entitlement programs, we shouldn't leave them with the economic and environmental costs of climate change.

We must shift our thinking away from short-term gain toward long-term investment and sustainability, and always have the next generations in mind with every decision we make.

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 only have this one planet; we got to figure out how to live on it without destroying it.

The eyes of the future are looking back at us and they are praying for us to see beyond our own time. They are kneeling with hands clasped that we might act with restraint, that we might leave room for the life that is destined to come. To protect what is wild is to protect what is gentle. Perhaps the wilderness we fear is the pause between our own heartbeats, the silent space that says we live only by grace. Wilderness lives by this same grace. Wild mercy is in our hands.

We don't, in a sensible world, want to hand on an increasingly dysfunctional world to our grandchildren.

I refuse to condemn your generation and future generations to a planet that's beyond fixing.