Al Gore Quotes

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

If you have children, you worry about the world you're leaving them.

I think about the world that we leave behind for our children.

It is an old cliche to say that the future is in the hands of the young. This is no longer true. The quality of life to be enjoyed or the existence to be survived by our children and future generations is in our hands now.

I'm just becoming more and more aware of this truly profound responsibility that we carry as individuals. And it's a responsibility not only to ourselves and to our families, but to the billions of people who still have to come in the future who will be dealing with our legacy.

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

There's no really rosy scenario ahead, where climate change just doesn't happen, but I believe we don't have the ethical right to throw our hands up in the air and say, 'Game over.' Whatever pathway we choose, our descendants will be dealing with that reality for centuries to come.

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.

When I think about my legacy, I think about the world that we leave behind for our children.

We need to have a vision of the world we want to create so that we can see ourselves as collaborators with future generations in the project of shaping it.

I believe that success brings responsibility. It also does not bring immunity to the consequences of our quickening march towards oblivion. The bottom line is that all of us should be invovled in our own futures to create a world that our children will want to live in.

The future of our children is a trust we have been given. To conserve and grow, not to squander wastefully on needless excesses. The earth is a trust, to protect and to honor. Our home, our livelihood, our future rests in the quality of our stewardship. Let us become better stewards.

What about our children and grandchildren and their children and grandchildren? Do we not want them to live healthy and happy lives?

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.

Future generations are not going to ask us what political party were you in. They are going to ask what did you do about it, when you knew the glaciers were melting.

We need to think of the future and the planet we are going to leave to our children and their children.

I can't think of anything more important than the environment we leave to our children and our children's children.

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

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 owe it to ourselves and to the next generation to conserve the environment so that we can bequeath our children a sustainable world that benefits all.

If future generations are to remember us more with gratitude than sorrow, we must achieve more than just the miracles of technology. We must also leave them a glimpse of the world as it was created, not just as it looked when we got through with it.

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

We must all live so that our children do not have to pay for our deeds.

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.