Roddy Llewellyn Quotes

He plants trees to benefit another generation.

Schoolchildren and older people like the idea of planting trees. For children, it's interesting that an acorn will grow into an oak, and for older people it's a legacy. And the act of planting a tree is not that difficult.

I have lots of heroes: anyone and everyone who does whatever they can to leave the natural world better than they found it.

I think the greatest challenge in environmentalism and the most rewarding challenge is trying to figure out how humans can meet their needs while protecting the environment.

Even the people who come our way look upon us in amazement, that we run only for the healing of Mother Earth.

Arbor Day is not like other holidays. Each of those reposes on the past, while Arbor Day proposes for the future.

Trees are your best antiques.

To waste, to destroy, our natural resources, to skin and exhaust the land instead of using it so as to increase its usefulness, will result in undermining in the days of our children the very prosperity which we ought by right to hand down to them amplified and developed.

God put the human race in charge of managing the resources of the entire planet for the benefit of all life. Therefore, we, of all people on this planet, should be concerned about environmental issues and doing what we can to enhance the beauty and productivity of the natural realm.

Environmentalism is a way of seeing our place within the biosphere.

I'm a little different from all those conservation types.

We're getting closer to our nature.

We have to stop thinking about ourselves so much and start thinking about the environment. We have to change.

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.

You have to focus on what you're passionate about. For me it's the forests and of course, because I'm concerned about the forests, I'm concerned about the way paper is made.

A day spent praising the earth and lamenting man's pollutionist history makes you feel like a superior, sensitive soul.

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

I think, of all the holidays we celebrate, my least favorite is Earth Day. For one thing, I never know what sort of gift is appropriate. A jar of dirt, maybe? And it's not clear to me why Earth even needs a 'day,' since a spin on its axis creates a day. That's like giving a man who owns a shoe store a gift of a pair of shoes.

I try to be eco-friendly in every possible way.

As cheesy as it sounds, truly every day is Earth Day.

I'm into environmental and ecological issues, so maybe that is an avenue to go down.

I see a future in which nature gives us a helping hand. Instead of destroying the natural world, why can't we use it to solve the kinds of problems that we are facing?

Invoking Nature always measures the distance we have yet to travel to achieve real progress on environmental issues.

Sadly, it's much easier to create a desert than a forest.

I plant a lot of trees. I am a great believer in planting things for future generations. I loathe the now culture where you just live for today.