Yehuda Berg Quotes

We have to stop thinking about ourselves so much and start thinking about the environment. We have to change.

Our conservation laws are based on static ideas about nature—not landscapes that are rapidly changing because of something humans did.

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.

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.

It's time to renew our commitment to the world around us.

Genetic design is something we can use to fight the lack of sustainability we humans are forcing on the earth's environment.

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.

What we've proven is that you can protect the environment, use it wisely and grow the economy and that there is no conflict between the two.

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

We can make a concerted effort to stop poisoning the planet: that would be a good way of appeasing the gods.

Limits [to growth] are indeed imposed by the impact of present technologies and social organization on the biosphere, but we must have the ingenuity to change. And change we must.

Protecting our planet is a moral imperative.

Everything depends on our ability to sustainably inhabit this earth, and true sustainability will require us all to change our way of thinking on how we take from the earth and how we give back.

If you want to destroy the planet, you can kiss social justice goodbye. The earth comes first.

Since the early 1990s, I had been very worried about the state of the environment, and by the end of that decade, I realized I needed to do something about it.

We only have one earth. Let's take care of it.

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

Global warming is not only the number one environmental challenge we face today, but one of the most important issues facing all of humanity... We all have to do our part to raise awareness about global warming and the problems we as a people face in promoting a sustainable environmental future for our planet.

When it comes to dealing with the world's climate and energy challenges, I have a simple rule: change America, change the world.

I think the greatest challenge in environmentalism and the most rewarding challenge is trying to figure out how humans can meet their needs while protecting the environment.

I was taught from a young age that I had to serve, so that turned into me thinking I had to save the planet.

I really wonder what gives us the right to wreck this poor planet of ours.

This Earth is our only home. Together, we must protect and cherish it.

So often we talk about saving the planet, but what we really mean is to save the planet the way it is, so we can live here. So that is can sustain us.

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