James Cameron Quotes

The continued existence of wildlife and wilderness is important to the quality of life of humans.

That's all about the natural order of things, the idea of nature protecting children but also children protecting nature.

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

We need a philosophy for humans and nature to live together.

As long as we are graceful, appreciative lodgers, the earth remains healthy and wondrous.

Look closely at nature. Every species is a masterpiece, exquisitely adapted to the particular environment in which it has survived. Who are we to destroy or even diminish biodiversity?

Nature has an economy, an elegance, a style, that if we could but emulate it we could rise out of the rubble we are making out of the planet

For most of history, man has had to fight nature to survive; in this century he is beginning to realize that, in order to survive, he must protect it.

We don't need a War on Carbon. We need a new prosperity that can be shared by all while still respecting a multitude of real ecological limits - not just atmospheric gas concentrations, but topsoil depth, water supplies, toxic chemical concentrations, and the health of ecosystems, including the diversity of life they depend upon.

Nature provides a free lunch, but only if we control our appetites.

Save the elephants, and then you save the forest - and then you save yourself.

The organization and the environment are in concert.

The most important thing is to preserve the world we live in. Unless people understand and learn about our world, habitats, and animals, they won't understand that if we don't protect those habitats, we'll eventually destroy ourselves.

I believe as human beings we are out of balance, out of synch with the earth.

Whatever happens to the great systems of nature will also be what happens to us.

In fighting nature, man can win every battle except the last. If he should win that too, he will perish, like an embryo cutting its own umbilical cord.

I think the nomads really give us inspiration about how we can live in harmony with our environment.

All ethics so far evolved rest upon a single premise: that the individual is a member of a community of interdependent parts... The land ethic simply enlarges the boundaries of the community to include soils, waters, plants, and animals, or collectively: the land.

You want to live in harmony with nature and with each other.

The way a human can coexist with nature has to be at the spiritual level.

The byproduct of the main thrust to protect the biodiversity of a given place is that you get especially young people out to the parks, because it will be future generations that will have to value these landscapes and these ecosystems and make sure that nobody is changing the law.

Humanity has passed through a long history of one-sidedness and of a social condition that has always contained the potential of destruction, despite its creative achievements in technology. The great project of our time must be to open the other eye: to see all-sidedly and wholly, to heal and transcend the cleavage between humanity and nature that came with early wisdom.

Earth gets its price for what Earth gives us.

In nature's economy the currency is not money, it is life.

Everything is connected to everything else. Everything must go somewhere. Nature knows best. There is no such thing as a free lunch.