Robert B. Laughlin Quotes

If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen.

The key of 'The Earth from Above,' and of 'Home' is to show the beauty of the planet, and thereby to promote love for it.

It is a wonderful honor to receive the Audubon Medal from the National Audubon Society, which for more than a century has fought tirelessly to protect and preserve our natural resources and environment for future generations.

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

I doubt that most people with short-term thinking love the natural world enough to save it.

For me, the study of these laws is inseparable from a love of Nature in all its manifestations.

It's not that hard to imagine the natural world recovering it's health in our absence: it's more difficult, and more necessary, to imagine it recovering its health in our presence.

I also became close to nature, and am now able to appreciate the beauty with which this world is endowed.

President Obama has expressed his commitment to responsible stewardship of our land, water, and other natural resources. And one way of restoring the land to its natural condition is what we are doing here today - breaking pavement for the People's Garden.

Children are still in love with the wonders of nature, and I am, too. So I write them stories in hopes that they will want to protect all the beautiful creatures and places.

I don't think we're going to save anything if we go around talking about saving plants and animals only; we've got to translate that into what's in it for us.

I'd like to help repair the earth's ecosystems, and to fully live until I'm fully dead.

I don't want to save a creek for the creek's sake, but what's in it for human beings.

If man doesn't learn to treat the oceans and the rain forest with respect, man will become extinct.

Being in touch with the natural world is crucial.

Sooner or later we've got to tie the saving of the natural world to our own public welfare.

It is that range of biodiversity that we must care for - the whole thing - rather than just one or two stars.

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

The sun is always shining. We have oxygen, trees, birds. There's so much good things on Earth, still. We haven't destroyed everything.

What's near and dear to my heart is cooperative conservation.

It is good to realize that if love and peace can prevail on earth, and if we can teach our children to honor nature's gifts, the joys and beauties of the outdoors will be here forever.

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.

The most important environmental issue is one that is rarely mentioned, and that is the lack of a conservation ethic in our culture.

I came to all the realizations about sustainability and biodiversity because I fell in love with the way food tastes. That was it. And because I was looking for that taste I feel at the doorsteps of the organic, local, sustainable farmers, dairy people and fisherman.

The earth is a tremendous gift. There is nothing else like it in the known universe. I want to leave it the way I found it.