Santiago Calatrava Quotes

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.

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

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

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

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

My main issue is sustainability of the Earth, and protection of those animals and people who dwell here.

Unless we keep this planet healthy, everything else is for naught.

The latest revelation - from no Mount Sinai, Sermon on the Mount or Bo tree - is the outcry of mute things themselves that we must heed by curbing our powers over creation, lest we perish together on a wasteland of what that creation once was.

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

We all live on the same planet, it is our only home, so... we used to rotate crops back in the day and, you know, who cares if you're going to make a profit if everybody's too dead or glowing in the dark to be able to purchase anything.

The most important thing is to preserve the world we live in. Unless people understand and learn about our world, habitats, and animals, they won't understand that if we don't protect those habitats, we'll eventually destroy ourselves.

I, Maggie, personally cannot tell you that you're going to save the planet. But what I do know is that we can draw a line to an issue that can conserve what we already have and what's left in a way that we can actually breathe the air, drink the water, actually grow things in soil - that matters in a real, practical way.

The future will either be green or not at all.

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.

Because the living environment is what really sustains us.

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

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

It is not enough to celebrate the earth and all its inhabitants, we must restore what we have destroyed.

We are going to learn how to relate to the Earth and our own natural environment here by looking seriously at space colony ecologies.

We cannot sustain long-term growth in our economies if we do not protect and preserve our environment.

Protecting our environment and natural resources is necessary for both our planet and our economy.

I'm concerned that if we don't do more to protect our open spaces and reduce climate change, there will be devastating and lasting impacts on us and future generations.

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

Protecting Americans from harm goes beyond police and national defense. It's imperative that we not destroy the commons, the physical environment on which we rely.

I don't flatter myself - I'm not a scientist, I'm not a conservation expert.