William Weld Quotes

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.

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

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

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

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

I wouldn't want anyone to destroy the earth.

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.

Our Earth is talking to us, and we must listen to it and decipher its message if we want to survive.

Protecting Americans from harm goes beyond police and national defense. It's imperative that we not destroy the commons, the physical environment on which we rely.

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.

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.

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

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?

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

It is not oil or the environment, it is oil and the environment. We are living in the same world. We are not enemies.

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

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

Sooner or later we've got to tie the saving of the natural world to our own public welfare.

I, Maggie, personally cannot tell you that you're going to save the planet. But what I do know is that we can draw a line to an issue that can conserve what we already have and what's left in a way that we can actually breathe the air, drink the water, actually grow things in soil - that matters in a real, practical way.

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

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 future will either be green or not at all.

The environment has fallen to the wayside in politics.