James Balog Quotes

I always knew that I was going be an environmental advocate when I was very young.

I have a major respect for nature. I'm an environmentalist.

I believe the green movement is gaining momentum because people are becoming more educated about the real importance of living green.

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

We are now heading down a centuries-long path toward increasing the productivity of our natural capital - the resource systems upon which we depend to live - instead of our human capital.

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

Journey with me to a true commitment to our environment. Journey with me to the serenity of leaving to our children a planet in equilibrium.

I am not a tree-hugger and I don't think mine is an extreme point of view.

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

I'm an environmentalist; I recycle.

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. Because the planet doesn't need to be saved. It doesn't care if all the squirrels, elephants, and trees die and there's just a couple of amoebas floating around at the poles.

Environmentalism opposes reckless innovation and makes conservation the central order of business.

A true conservationist is a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers, but borrowed from his children.

I think the greatest challenge in environmentalism and the most rewarding challenge is trying to figure out how humans can meet their needs while protecting the environment.

It's no secret - if you know me, have ever met me or have shared a meal with me - that I'm a passionate environmentalist.

If we do not permit the earth to produce beauty and joy, it will in the end not produce food, either.

Franklin Roosevelt was very concerned about environmental issues.

I'm doing it with a rock format and the words are about people living in harmony with Mother Earth. It's very important to me - and I feel it should be for every living human on this planet.

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.

Environmentalism is a way of seeing our place within the biosphere.

The first rule of sustainability is to align with natural forces, or at least not try to defy them.

Environmental concern is a little like dieting or paying off credit-card debt - an episodically terrific idea that burns brightly and then seems to fade when we realize there's a reason we need to diet or pay down our debt. The reason is that it's really, really hard, and too many of us in too many spheres of life choose the easy over the hard.

Environmentalism isn't a discipline or specialty. It's a way of seeing our place in the world. And we need everybody to see the world that way. Don't think 'In order to make a difference I have to become an environmentalist.'

Environmentalism has failed.