Evo Morales Quotes

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

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

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

We are now heading down a centuries-long path toward increasing the productivity of our natural capital - the resource systems upon which we depend to live - instead of our human capital.

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

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

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

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.

Conservation is a state of harmony between men and land.

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.

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.

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

What I have experienced over time is that environmental problems are easier to deal with in ways that don't go into their interconnections to the rest of what we are.

Our challenge for the future is that we realize we are very much a part of the earth's ecosystem, and we must learn to respect and live according to the basic biological laws of nature.

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

Conservation is not without a cost.

Even the wealth of the U.S. cannot protect against the levels of environmental destruction that we are unleashing.

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

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

If we are serious about our human wellbeing - from local communities to the global world economy - we need to now reconnect our entire world to the planet.

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

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