Russell Brand Quotes

This planet came with a set of instructions, but we seem to have misplaced them. Civilization needs a new operating system.

We have a responsibility toward the other life-forms of our planet whose continued existence is threatened by the thoughtless behavior of our own human species. . . . Environmental responsibility – for if there is no God, then, obviously, it is up to us to put things right.

Through consciousness, our minds have the power to change our planet and ourselves. It is time we heed the wisdom of the ancient indigenous people and channel our consciousness and spirit to tend the garden and not destroy it.

We're not passengers on Spaceship Earth. We're the crew.

We owe it to each other - and to our children and grandchildren - to leave our planet in a better state than when we found it.

Nature will take precedence over the needs of the modern man.

Through no divine design or cosmic plan, we have inherited the mantle of life's caretaker on the earth, the only home we have ever known.

I believe we should be good custodians of the Earth.

We should preserve every scrap of biodiversity as priceless while we learn to use it and come to understand what it means to humanity.

Jehovah had nothing to say to Moses and the others about the care of the planet. He had plenty to say about tribal loyalty and conquest.

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.

We have a moral obligation to straighten out the world before we mess up space.

We the undersigned, senior members of the world's scientific community, hereby warn all humanity of what lies ahead. A great change in our stewardship of the earth and the life on it is required, if vast human misery is to be avoided and our global home on this planet is not to be irretrievably mutilated.

We always have to remind ourselves of how fragile life on this planet is and what responsibilities we have.

This obedience to the voice of the Earth is more important for our future happiness... than the desires of the moment.

First and foremost we are Earthlings.

If you want to destroy the planet, you can kiss social justice goodbye. The earth comes first.

I do hope there are other wonderful planets living and thriving out there, but ours is special because it is ours and ours to take care of. We really can't take that too lightly.

I always turn to Wendell Berry for inspiration on food, community, agriculture, and, well, just being a human.

I have hope that humanity will be cured of our collective ecological insanity and that we adapt to living within the boundaries of the laws of ecology.

We desperately need to recognise that we are the guests, not the masters, of nature and adopt a new paradigm for development, based on the costs and benefits to all people, and bound by the limits of nature herself rather than the limits of technology and consumerism.

I don't need to make money destroying my environment. Why don't I just love it and figure out a way to be more sustainable?

On a certain day, month and year one should observe the ceremony of tree-planting. Thus, one fulfils one's responsibilities, serves one's fellow-beings which not only brings happiness but benefits all.

The economy is a wholly owned subsidiary of the environment, not the reverse.

We live within the environment. So that directly relates with our survival, our life. So through that way, more concern of well being of humanity, then naturally concerned about environment.