Richard Rogers Quotes

Raising awareness on the most pressing environmental issues of our time is more important than ever.

Why has it seemed that the only way to protect the environment is with heavy-handed government regulation?

I'm on the board of the Sierra Club Foundation and am myself a big environmentalist. But the way to make the biggest difference is to change mainstream behavior.

We must give everyone a stake in the World’s environment.

Real environmental change depends on us. We can't wait for our leaders. We have to focus on what our own responsibilities are and how we can make the change happen.

Even the government understands that the environmental challenge is so big that no single agency can handle it. It needs collaboration among all the stakeholders - companies, governments, NGOs and the public. Public accountability will be the ultimate driving force.

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

Environmentalism opposes reckless innovation and makes conservation the central order of business.

I think an old style of addressing environmental problems is ebbing, but the rise of the so-called conservative, political movement in this country is not a trend towards the future but a reaction to this very broad shift that we are undergoing.

So I'm going to go on and work on preserving the ozone layer, encouraging everyone to recycle.

I reflect back 35 years ago, and look how far we have come in America with our environmental policy to improve the conditions of our air and water, and we have had some real successes.

Being an environmentalist isn't all about doom and gloom.

Earth Day should encourage us to reflect on what we are doing to make our planet a more sustainable and livable place.

This whole idea that we address environmental issues by not doing stuff just doesn't work.

I think the new generation is much more demanding about respect for the environment than we have ever imagined.

I've been a supporter of green initiatives for years. I've been paying more and more attention to it, you know, with three kids. I thought it was tragic when the Kyoto Protocol was killed by the U.S. It was sort of a call to action.

People are overwhelmed looking up at the Mount Everest of environmental challenges that we face. But you put one foot in front of the other and you recognize that not everyone is Sir Edmund Hillary.

I hardly can sleep. I feel that my target now is really to save Mother Earth for humanity. And it's doable.

We can have technology, prosperity, nice homes and cars, but at the same time we must be conscious of what we are dumping into the water, the air and our food.

The language 'It's too late' is very unsuitable for most environmental issues. It's too late for the dodo and for people who've starved to death already, but it's not too late to prevent an even bigger crisis. The sooner we act on the environment, the better.

Local innovation and initiative can help us better understand how to protect our environment.

We don't have to sacrifice a strong economy for a healthy environment.

We can make a concerted effort to stop poisoning the planet: that would be a good way of appeasing the gods.

We must not be the generation responsible for irreversibly damaging the environment. We must hand it over to our children in as near pristine condition as we were lent it from our parents.

Everyone realizes that we have to clean up the environment, but no one likes the cost.