Lily Cole Quotes

With today's mass media obsession, it's good to be able to raise awareness about our environment.

I'm a latecomer to the environmental issue, which for years seemed to me like an excuse for more government regulation. But I can see that in rich societies, voters are paying less attention to economic issues and more to issues of the spirit, including the environment.

I believe in the protection of the environment that supports us all.

I'm sick of environmentalism.

Since the early 1990s, I had been very worried about the state of the environment, and by the end of that decade, I realized I needed to do something about it.

I've always been concerned about the environment. Becoming a mother only intensified my concern. I became even more alarmed about what we are doing to the earth and what our children will inherit as a result.

We only have one earth. Let's take care of it.

Even in America, people have said again and again that they would be willing to sacrifice for a cleaner environment.

Journey with me to a true commitment to our environment. Journey with me to the serenity of leaving to our children a planet in equilibrium.

We must conserve our environment and pass it on to our children in as good or better condition than it was passed to us.

I love all of the Earth.

Environmental concern is a little like dieting or paying off credit-card debt - an episodically terrific idea that burns brightly and then seems to fade when we realize there's a reason we need to diet or pay down our debt. The reason is that it's really, really hard, and too many of us in too many spheres of life choose the easy over the hard.

Before computers, telephone lines and television connect us, we all share the same air, the same oceans, the same mountains and rivers. We are all equally responsible for protecting them.

Environmentalism isn't a discipline or specialty. It's a way of seeing our place in the world. And we need everybody to see the world that way. Don't think 'In order to make a difference I have to become an environmentalist.'

I believe the American people care a lot about the environment.

Environmentalism has failed.

There is no larger collective-action problem than the environment. The three biggest lies of the environmental movement is that every little bit helps, you can do your part, and together we can do it.

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

I wish my artwork could persuade millions of people to join a global conversation about sustainability.

If we intend to provide a better life, and a better world, for future generations, we can't ignore the quality of the environment we leave them.

I wanted to help raise awareness, so I created an environmental foundation called Just Within Reach.

I always get involved with the environment because once you go past the tipping point with the environment, you don't get it back.

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.

Environmental concern is now firmly embedded in public life: in education, medicine and law; in journalism, literature and art.

We haven't seen the turning point yet, but we're sticking to our bottom line, for the environment and the health of the country.