Dick Thornburgh Quotes

I used to cover the environment, and it does have the advantage of the fact that when you call people up and ask them questions, their first instinct is not to lie to you.

It's a sad day when a cartoon is doing more and cares more and pays more attention to the environment than our president.

We must act swiftly in order to halt the rate of decay our planet faces.

I was really educating myself on the environment, but I didn't realize it was so connected to politics, connected to globalization.

We, the generation that faces the next century, can add the solemn injunction 'If we don't do the impossible, we shall be faced with the unthinkable.'

With today's mass media obsession, it's good to be able to raise awareness about our environment.

It's time we stopped ignoring the environment. Let's not let another election go by without making this a high priority.

Everywhere people are at work to build a better world in which we - and some of the beauty of this world - will be guaranteed to survive. Everywhere they are at war with the forces threatening us and the planet.

We shouldn't be saying 'Save the planet'; we should be saying: 'Save viable conditions in which people can live.' That's what we're dealing with here.

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

I think its important to speak up for the environment because the Earth is not saying something.

Protecting our planet is a moral imperative.

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.

Defending the planet means changing the world.

It is one planet and we all have a duty to protect it. We have to work together. We have to use our power to work together and make decisions and changes that are needed to preserve our world.

I definitely want to get into environmental science and environmental politics, learning a lot more and preserving what's left of the world. That's such a sacred circle to be in. I'd love to contribute to that.

I'm a social justice supporter, but there is no social justice on a dead planet.

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

I know it's become a cliche of sorts, but, nonetheless, it is true. This is the only planet we and our children and children's children will call home. We can't afford to lose this home because we didn't protect it.

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

Even the government understands that the environmental challenge is so big that no single agency can handle it. It needs collaboration among all the stakeholders - companies, governments, NGOs and the public. Public accountability will be the ultimate driving force.

I think my message to the politicians who have within their power the ability to make change is, 'Do you really, really not care about the future of your great-grandchildren? Because if we let the world continue to be destroyed the way we are now, what's the world going to be like for your great-grandchildren?'

The human race has had long experience and a fine tradition in surviving adversity. But we now face a task for which we have little experience, the task of surviving prosperity.

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

We have the world to live in on the condition that we will take good care of it. And to take good care of it, we have to know it. And to know it and to be willing to take care of it, we have to love it.