Johan Rockstrom Quotes

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

The earth is a tremendous gift. There is nothing else like it in the known universe. I want to leave it the way I found it.

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

We must act swiftly in order to halt the rate of decay our planet faces.

The problem of the environment is the extension of good housekeeping of the thinking woman.

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

Since the early 1990s, I had been very worried about the state of the environment, and by the end of that decade, I realized I needed to do something about it.

My main issue is sustainability of the Earth, and protection of those animals and people who dwell here.

Wouldn't it help Americans more, in the long run, if we were forced to accept some responsibility for the environmental wreckage we prefer to assume is totally out of our control?

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

I think having toured the world and seeing many places, I've just been blown away by how we've really scarred our home. I'm as guilty as the next person if not more so. I travel a lot. The damage we do to our planet is huge.

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

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

So many times I've photographed stories that show the degradation of the planet. I had one idea to go and photograph the factories that were polluting, and to see all the deposits of garbage. But, in the end, I thought the only way to give us an incentive, to bring hope, is to show the pictures of the pristine planet - to see the innocence.

To be sure, governments will remain critical to any comprehensive effort to save our planet.

For the sake of our health, our children and grandchildren and even our economic well-being, we must make protecting the planet our top priority.

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.

A generation of Earth Days has conditioned millions of us to be green in our homes yet we must apply the same ethic to our politics if we want to save our planet and our democracy.

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.

I hardly can sleep. I feel that my target now is really to save Mother Earth for humanity. And it's doable.

It's time we stopped ignoring the environment. Let's not let another election go by without making this a high priority.

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

I believe that worrying about the problems plaguing our planet without taking steps to confront them is absolutely irrelevant. The only thing that changes this world is taking action.

We must give everyone a stake in the World’s environment.

There is no Plan B becasue there is no Planet B.