Christophe de Margerie Quotes

You want to live in harmony with nature and with each other.

The destruction of our environment and resources cannot be stemmed unless the growth of the world's population is stemmed and ultimately reduced.

What I have experienced over time is that environmental problems are easier to deal with in ways that don't go into their interconnections to the rest of what we are.

Natural resources are so vast that no single individual or business is going to protect them; they don't have an incentive to.

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

The planet will adapt to anything. Maybe we should start to use the heart and the brain that we've been given to organize ourselves. Because if we keep screwing up things, we may be just passing by in the history of the planet.

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

And I think that the environment is one very strong way to counterbalance the chaotic nature of our life.

I think it's important to be kind to the world before it disappears if we don't take care of it.

Address these environmental issues and you will address every issue known to man. And we keep dabbling in things that aren't really that important in the long term.

We're busily wrecking the chances for future generations at a rapid rate of knots by not recognizing the damage we're doing to the natural environment, bearing in mind that this is the only planet that we know has any life on it.

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

If we do not own the freshness of the air and the sparkle of the water, how can you buy them?

We are going to inherit the earth; there is not the slightest doubt about that.

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.

The atmosphere, the earth, the water and the water cycle - those things are good gifts. The ecosystems, the ecosphere, those are good gifts. We have to regard them as gifts because we couldn't make them. We have to regard them as good gifts because we couldn't live without them.

Too often, people think that solving the world's problems is based on conquering the earth, rather than touching the earth, touching ground.

I think it's really important that we understand that we share this world and we're connected to it.

The environmental crisis is all a result of rushing.

Unless we practice conservation, those who come after us will have to pay the price of misery, degradation, and failure for the progress and prosperity of our day.

Living on a planet of fixed size requires compromise, and while we are the only party capable of negotiating, we are not the only party at the table. We've never claimed more, and we've never had less.

We're not environmentally doing very good things to this planet, and we might not be around too long.

You can print money to bail out a bank, but you can't print life to bail out a planet.

The truth is, natural organisms have managed to do everything we want to do without guzzling fossil fuels, polluting the planet or mortgaging the future.

The environment has fallen to the wayside in politics.