Jim Fowler Quotes

It's not that hard to imagine the natural world recovering it's health in our absence: it's more difficult, and more necessary, to imagine it recovering its health in our presence.

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

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

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

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

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

The most important thing is to preserve the world we live in. Unless people understand and learn about our world, habitats, and animals, they won't understand that if we don't protect those habitats, we'll eventually destroy ourselves.

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.

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.

Now, more than ever, we need nature as a balancing agent.

The future will either be green or not at all.

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.

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

How much longer, for instance, can we continue to crowd more and more people into this world? …. How long can we permit the uncontrolled use of the earth's resources when there is no possibility of replacing them? Indeed, how long will it be before we have completely used up everything our lives depend on? These issues are the politics of the future. Neither Republicans nor Democrats have begun to spell out in substantive fashion the means by which we can control population growth, environmental problems, and the conservation of our natural resources.

We cannot sustain long-term growth in our economies if we do not protect and preserve our environment.

The environment, what surrounds you, is so alive and delightful and complex.

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

Protecting Americans from harm goes beyond police and national defense. It's imperative that we not destroy the commons, the physical environment on which we rely.

I don't flatter myself - I'm not a scientist, I'm not a conservation expert.

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.

If you're a Conservative, why aren't you behind conserving the land?

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.

The latest revelation - from no Mount Sinai, Sermon on the Mount or Bo tree - is the outcry of mute things themselves that we must heed by curbing our powers over creation, lest we perish together on a wasteland of what that creation once was.

It is a wonderful honor to receive the Audubon Medal from the National Audubon Society, which for more than a century has fought tirelessly to protect and preserve our natural resources and environment for future generations.