Pope Benedict XVI 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.

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.

Perhaps the time has come to cease calling it the 'environmentalist' view, as though it were a lobbying effort outside the mainstream of human activity, and to start calling it the real-world view.

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

Natural resources are so vast that no single individual or business is going to protect them; they don't have an incentive to.

Take good care of our fragile planet.

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

We have the world to live in on the condition that we will take good care of it. And to take good care of it, we have to know it. And to know it and to be willing to take care of it, we have to love it.

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. Because the planet doesn't need to be saved. It doesn't care if all the squirrels, elephants, and trees die and there's just a couple of amoebas floating around at the poles.

Further devastation of the air, land and sea is obviously a very real possibility, unless the attitudes of politicians and all who irresponsibly exploit our natural resources change significantly in the very near future and all collaborate and sacrifice for the good of the planet.

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

I really wonder what gives us the right to wreck this poor planet of ours.

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.

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

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

We're not environmentally doing very good things to this planet, and we might not be around too long.

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.

We do not yet have the solutions to these questions, but the awareness that we live in an endangered world is present in more and more life situations.

The environment has fallen to the wayside in politics.

Everywhere people are at work to build a better world in which we - and some of the beauty of this world - will be guaranteed to survive. Everywhere they are at war with the forces threatening us and the planet.

We shouldn't be saying 'Save the planet'; we should be saying: 'Save viable conditions in which people can live.' That's what we're dealing with here.

No compromise in defense of Mother Earth.