Barry Sternlicht Quotes

I've been covering all four corners of the country in connection with promoting sustainable and responsible tourism. So not only am I just travelling, I am travelling responsibly.

Rwanda is a landlocked country, but it hasn't stopped developing. They built a high-end tourism industry around the mountain gorillas.

For me, it's my great honour that many people use blue LEDs or LED lightings now. So, we can contribute to the energy savings for the humans, so I'm very, very happy to contribute to the energy saving issues.

Protecting our land, our air and our water is a very important thing that we can only do together.

We want to use the environment to shift the way our society works.

If you're a Conservative, why aren't you behind conserving the land?

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

Raising awareness on the most pressing environmental issues of our time is more important than ever.

Governments at all levels and the whole society should act more vigorously to protect the land our lives depend on.

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.

Gorilla tourism is vital to Rwanda's economy: It's the third highest source of income.

I wouldn't want anyone to destroy the earth.

Well, perhaps the greatest achievement, and we didn't know it at the time, was we held an Earth Day in 1970, and out of that Earth Day a lot of students got involved in saving the environment, or trying to.

We can survive as a population only if we conserve, develop sustainably, and protect the world's resources.

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.

If you look at the state of our planet, the next generations won't be around if we consider sustainability as a gimmick.

When we save the rain forest, the polar bear, and Al Gore, we should party so hard that Canada calls the cops on us for noise.

Conservation of energy also protects our environment.

The planet's resources are rare; we must consume more ethically and equitably.

I think if we're going to have to landfill trash, and I think we basically have to, we might as well get the upside for it and dedicate that upside to improving the environment in so many different ways.

Unless the local community signs up, wildlife won't survive. And without wildlife, no one will visit.

I believe in carbon offset initiatives, in eco-villages, in the sustainable regeneration of the tropical rainforest.

We can make a concerted effort to stop poisoning the planet: that would be a good way of appeasing the gods.

India's elite wants not just cosmetic environmentalism, but a consumer-environmentalism. It wants to have good areas to go for tourism to. So it's happy to have national parks, because people can go for wildlife tourism. Or good beaches. But they don't want, and don't care about, a livelihood environmentalism.

We thought it was a very good idea in this day and age of threat to biodiversity….we believe the scope for ecotourism is great.