Jim Fowler Quotes

On Earth Day, we celebrate all the gifts the world and nature make available to us. We recognize our complete dependence on its bounty. And we acknowledge the need for good stewardship to preserve its fruits for future generations.

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

Right now, we don't have a very good relation with creation.

If man doesn't learn to treat the oceans and the rain forest with respect, man will become extinct.

I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority.

We are going to learn how to relate to the Earth and our own natural environment here by looking seriously at space colony ecologies.

I never lose an opportunity to speak about my obsession: humankind and the environment.

Natures' curriculum cannot be changed.

If we do not permit the earth to produce beauty and joy, it will in the end not produce food, either.

Each generation takes the earth as trustees. We ought to bequeath to posterity as many forests and orchards as we have exhausted and consumed.

Nature has provided us a spectacular toolbox. The toolbox exists. An architect far better and smarter than us has given us that toolbox, and we now have the ability to use it.

We're busily wrecking the chances for future generations at a rapid rate of knots by not recognizing the damage we're doing to the natural environment, bearing in mind that this is the only planet that we know has any life on it.

The first rule of sustainability is to align with natural forces, or at least not try to defy them.

Sustainability, ensuring the future of life on Earth, is an infinite game, the endless expression of generosity on behalf of all.

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

We owe it to each other - and to our children and grandchildren - to leave our planet in a better state than when we found it.

Through no divine design or cosmic plan, we have inherited the mantle of life's caretaker on the earth, the only home we have ever known.

We seem to think we have some control over this planet.

I maintain that if there is such a thing as a true and honest environmentalist, it's people like Slim and hopefully me, who have been caretakers of the land all our lives, along with the generations before us.

Hopefully, generations after us will continue to protect, preserve, and look after this wonderful land.

Sooner or later, we will have to recognise that the Earth has rights, too, to live without pollution. What mankind must know is that human beings cannot live without Mother Earth, but the planet can live without humans.

This land, this water, this air, this planet - this is our legacy to our young.

Unless we connect directly with the earth, we will not have the faintest clue why we should save it…. Only if we understand the beauty of nature will we love it, and only if we become alerted to learn about the planet's disease processes can we decide to live our lives with a proper sense of ecological responsibility.

We always have to remind ourselves of how fragile life on this planet is and what responsibilities we have.

We need to put our priority on protecting this exceptional way of life.