Helen Caldicott Quotes

One of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between Man and Nature shall not be broken.

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.

Being in touch with the natural world is crucial.

Unless we connect directly with the earth, we will not have the faintest clue why we should save it…. Only if we understand the beauty of nature will we love it, and only if we become alerted to learn about the planet's disease processes can we decide to live our lives with a proper sense of ecological responsibility.

I learned from my parents to revere nature. Their way of teaching my siblings and I to respect the environment was to be in it, and so we spent a great deal of time outdoors.

Nature is not our enemy, to be raped and conquered. Nature is ourselves, to be cherished and explored.

The love of wilderness is more than a hunger for what is always beyong reach; it is also an expression of loyalty to the earth, the earth which bore us and sustains us, the only paradise we shall ever know, the only paradise we ever need, if only we had the eyes to see.

To harm the earth is to heap contempt on its creator.

Our relationship with Nature... best way of forging this relationship... be a pilgrim and not a tourist on Planet Earth

I say I am a Planetwalker. Then I have to explain that a Planetwalker is anyone who walks the planet as a lifestyle choice, as part of an education in the spirit and hope of using the journey to benefit the world.

I want to get people to connect to the outdoors.

He who does not become familiar with nature through love will never know her.

There isn't a person on Earth who couldn't use a connection with nature.

If children have an interest in nature, they will understand. I want them to become people who appreciate the consequences the next generation will suffer if we destroy our natural surroundings. So without a doubt, they need to learn that nature is vital to us by experiencing it. I want them to like nature and to climb mountains and so on.

Children have become disengaged from nature and we need to reintroduce them to the pleasure that it brings. If we do that they will care for it. Through the simple act of planting a tree we can open their eyes to nature's beauty.

We live within the environment. So that directly relates with our survival, our life. So through that way, more concern of well being of humanity, then naturally concerned about environment.

We protect nature not for nature's sake but for our own sake because it's the infrastructure of our communities.

If your values are not related to the Earth or realistic, you'll believe in things that aren't so, which will hurt you in the long run, and as a species, too.

We all, parents, educators, community leaders, and every... citizen, need to come together to find new ways to engage children with the natural environment.

I think the Native Americans had the right idea about preserving and respecting the earth. Not just using it up. We are not the center of the universe and that we think we are will most likely be the end of us. Then nature will go on its way, with humans only being a faint ugly memory. And yes I am fond of animals or most of them.

Where nature is concerned, familiarity breeds love and knowledge, not contempt.

This earth is a garden, this life a banquet, and it's time we realized that it was given to all life, animal and man, to enjoy.

We cannot live without the Earth or apart from it, and something is shrivelled in a man's heart when he turns away from it and concerns himself only with the affairs of men

We are all environmentalists now, but we are not all planetists. An environmentalist realizes that nature has its pleasures and deserves respect. A planetist puts the earth ahead of the earthlings.

We must make living in harmony with the Earth a priority. This is our home... the only one we have!