Jane Goodall Quotes

Today, we are shapers of the world of tomorrow. That is plain truth. There is no way we can duck the responsibility, and there is no reason why we should.

All of us should be involved in our own futures to create a world that our children will want to live in.

We cannot tire or give up. We owe it to the present and future generations of all species to rise up and walk!

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

It is a wonderful honor to receive the Audubon Medal from the National Audubon Society, which for more than a century has fought tirelessly to protect and preserve our natural resources and environment for future generations.

We're not passengers on Spaceship Earth. We're the crew.

We owe at least this much to future generations, from whom we have borrowed a fragile planet called Earth.

The only thing that can save us as a species is seeing how we're not thinking about future generations in the way we live.

We must act today in order to preserve tomorrow.

Anybody who doesn't see the impact of climate change is really, I would say, myopic. They don't see the reality. It's so evident that we are destroying Mother Earth. This is not the problem of one country or a few countries: it is the problem of mankind. We need to work together to stop this. Otherwise, our future generations will simply disappear.

We cannot shirk responsibility from concerns for the welfare of the next generation.

When I think about my legacy, I think about the world that we leave behind for our children.

I think about the world that we leave behind for our children.

Since after extinction no one will be present to take responsibility, we have to take full responsibility now.

We, the present generation, have the responsibility to act as a trustee of the rich natural wealth for the future generations. The issue is not merely about climate change; it is about climate justice.

The task for us now, if we are to survive, is to build the earth.

You members of this Conference are to be the architects of the better world. In your hands rests our future.

If we don't start acknowledging our correct position as nothing more than a part of the planet as opposed to this perception that we're superior, then we won't have it much longer. We're facing a very turbulent, war-torn, drought-ridden existence for future generations unless we act now.

If you're asking me do we want clean air and clean water? Yes. Do we want a safer climate for future generations of the world? Of course we want that. We're working super hard here in Trump Tower to make sure that happens.

Save your world. Love it. Protect it, and respect it and don't let haters represent it. Don't leave the saving to anyone else, ever, because, exhibit A - why, hello there - it's way too much for one person. And if you want to skip out on the responsibility train, my whole life - and death - will have been in vain. It's yours. It's all yours for taking! You're not going to waste it now, are you?

The world is our responsibility. We cannot evade it.

I believe engineers will save the world.

Perhaps, one of our greatest challenges as a nation, as a people, as human beings making sure that our grandkids can live on this Earth.

The World is not ours to keep. We hold it in trust for future generations.

Perhaps a good resolution for the new year would be to keep asking what world we want to pass on to the next generation. Indeed to ask whether we have a real and vivid sense of that next generation.