Catherine Oxenberg Quotes

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

The need to protect the environment has emerged as an undeniably important priority for me.

Environmentalism is a dangerous ideology endangering human freedom.

We must conserve our environment and pass it on to our children in as good or better condition than it was passed to us.

I love all of the Earth.

This Earth is our only home. Together, we must protect and cherish it.

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.

Before computers, telephone lines and television connect us, we all share the same air, the same oceans, the same mountains and rivers. We are all equally responsible for protecting them.

I believe the American people care a lot about the environment.

There is no larger collective-action problem than the environment. The three biggest lies of the environmental movement is that every little bit helps, you can do your part, and together we can do it.

I believe in the protection of the environment that supports us all.

We need to think of the future and the planet we are going to leave to our children and their children.

If we intend to provide a better life, and a better world, for future generations, we can't ignore the quality of the environment we leave them.

The Earth needs rebels!

I always get involved with the environment because once you go past the tipping point with the environment, you don't get it back.

We haven't seen the turning point yet, but we're sticking to our bottom line, for the environment and the health of the country.

I hardly can sleep. I feel that my target now is really to save Mother Earth for humanity. And it's doable.

One Earth, one mother - one does not sell the Earth.

The future will either be green or not at all.

I have bigger concerns than what pop stars are doing. I'm more concerned about our environment, what industrialists are doing to it.

We must not be the generation responsible for irreversibly damaging the environment. We must hand it over to our children in as near pristine condition as we were lent it from our parents.

No compromise in defense of Mother Earth.

What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?

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

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.