Kanye West Quotes

You don't live on the Earth you want, you live on the Earth you have.

I haven't inherited the earth from my parents, I am borrowing it from my children.

We owe at least this much to future generations, from whom we have borrowed a fragile planet called Earth.

Land is not something you inherit from your parents. It is something you borrow from your children.

If we don't have a planet, we don't have anything.

It's shocking to think about how little the travel industry cares about sustainability - and it's the basis of their business!

Sustainability is the key to our survival on this planet and will also determine success on all levels.

Ask any parent what we want for our children, and invariably we say 'a better life.' To that end, we give our time, our sleep, our money, and our dreams, much as our parents did before us. We all want a better life for our children. But what we want for them ceases to matter if we leave them an unlivable world.

Generations will soon come into their power feeling differently about themselves than we do now, and in their re-enchanted world, they will wonder about us and what we did to their world, and what we thought we were doing.

The world is using up its natural resources at an alarming rate, and this has caused a permanent shift in their value. We all need to adjust our behavior to this new environment. It would help if we did it quickly.

Every drop in the ocean counts.

We are running ourselves into a damaged earth. But I am optimistic. I believe that we can change; we must change. As a human race, we are very young and quite primitive. The sooner we learn the greatness of humanity the better off we will all be.

What we are doing to the future of our children, and the other species on the planet, is a clear moral issue.

Nature's laws must be obeyed, and the period of decline begins, and goes on with accelerated rapidity.

The only thing that can save us as a species is seeing how we're not thinking about future generations in the way we live.

We are using resources as if we had two planets, not one. There can be no 'plan B' because there is no 'planet B.'

The Anthropocentic Age - the first age in which humankind is the dominant species on the planet - cuts both ways: it is up to us to destroy or save the planet. We certainly have the ability.

The way I see it, the earth is going to be here after we're dead and gone. Even if it's a polluted planet, and they messed it up. Where do they go from here - to another planet so they can mess that up too?

Most individuals have always thought themselves not big enough or significant enough to have an effect on the whole planet, a notion which conversely made them think they could afford big arrogance and big greed over its resources.

We are living beyond our means. As a people we have developed a life-style that is draining the earth of its priceless and irreplaceable resources without regard for the future of our children and people all around the world.

Humanity stands ... before a great problem of finding new raw materials and new sources of energy that shall never become exhausted. In the meantime we must not waste what we have, but must leave as much as possible for coming generations.

As artists, we can help, visually and intellectually, to make people understand that, at some point, we have to accept that it is our collective impact that is putting the whole planet in jeopardy.

Sometimes I wake at 2 A.M. worrying that my great-granddaughter will have to march through her distant, broiling future gathering all the plastic I ever disposed of.

Human beings are just animals who will just eat and take advantage of any source of energy until it runs out, and then there'll be catastrophe.

When we look as a society, we've really lost the connection between our actions and the future.