Marlee Matlin Quotes

Humans merely share the earth. We can only protect the land, not own it.

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

I think it's really important that we understand that we share this world and we're connected to it.

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.

Our conservation laws are based on static ideas about nature—not landscapes that are rapidly changing because of something humans did.

For how many people do you think might yet stand on this planet before the sun grows cold? That's the responsibility we hold in our hands.

We are evolutionary descendents of this marvellous panoply of life. And what that says unequivocally is we have an utter total obligation to make sure we have an environment that not only is good for us but is good for all living organisms.

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

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

I'm very concerned for the future of the earth and its amazing creatures. We've got to be careful and make sure we don't foul our own nest.

It is not oil or the environment, it is oil and the environment. We are living in the same world. We are not enemies.

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

Politicians need a better understanding of global ecology. We need to be freed from our species-specific arrogance. No evidence exists that we are 'chosen', the unique species for which all the others were made. Nor are we the most important one because we are so numerous, powerful and dangerous.

Not all is doom and gloom. We are beginning to understand the natural world and are gaining a reverence for life - all life.

We seem to think we have some control over this planet.

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.

Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end by destroying the earth.

The future will either be green or not at all.

Mother Nature is not sweet.

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.

Earth was not built to serve the needs of humans.

Man is complex—he makes deserts bloom and lakes die.

Conservation of land and conservation of people frequently go hand in hand

Man's war against nature is a war against himself.

It's nice to think about having everything natural and similar to pre-Columbian times.... In fact, man himself has long been part of that environment and there is no way to separate him from that environment.