Thich Nhat Hanh Quotes

The future will either be green or not at all.

The key to understanding the future is one word: sustainability.

What if we're wrong and there is no climate change? Well, by doing everything possible to address it, we will still use less water, stimulate new energy savings and, in time, money-saving technologies, enjoy cleaner air, and preserve more forests and trees and animals.

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

The principles that will save Earth's life are the same principles that save the living souls of humans: ineluctable spiritual principles.

We have changed our environment more quickly than we have learned how to change ourselves.

The oldest task in human history: to live on a piece of land without spoiling it..

I became an environmentalist because I love the living world, but I spend much of my life thinking about electricity, industrial processes and civil engineering.

I believe the green movement is gaining momentum because people are becoming more educated about the real importance of living green.

The main piece of technology in the green economy is a caulk gun.

Environmentalists and clean energy champions should stop telling people that we are working for "sustainability," which nobody understands.

I feel that our planet is in peril and that creating a sustainable planet for my children and my children's children is the most important thing I can do in this lifetime.

Environment is of supreme importance. It is greater than will power.

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

If we're destroying our trees and destroying our environment and hurting animals and hurting one another and all that stuff, there's got to be a very powerful energy to fight that. I think we need more love in the world.

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.

Here are the facts we confront. No one is against conservation. No one is against alternative fuel sources.

Economic growth and environmental protection are not at odds. They're opposite sides of the same coin if you're looking at longer-term prosperity.

It's important to recognise that humans are not the measure of all things... The Earth is the measure of all things.

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.

Schoolchildren and older people like the idea of planting trees. For children, it's interesting that an acorn will grow into an oak, and for older people it's a legacy. And the act of planting a tree is not that difficult.

Too often, people think that solving the world's problems is based on conquering the earth, rather than touching the earth, touching ground.

Like the other great revolutions, an environmental revolution will require sacrifices and lead to enormous gains. It, too, will change the face of the land and human institutions, hierarchies, self-definitions, cultures. It will take centuries. If it happens. There is no guarantee, of course.

I work with nature, although in completely new terms.

This whole idea that we address environmental issues by not doing stuff just doesn't work.