Daphne Zuniga Quotes

If people think nature is their friend, then they sure don't need an enemy.

I really wonder what gives us the right to wreck this poor planet of ours.

We're not environmentally doing very good things to this planet, and we might not be around too long.

We're busily wrecking the chances for future generations at a rapid rate of knots by not recognizing the damage we're doing to the natural environment, bearing in mind that this is the only planet that we know has any life on it.

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

Now, more than ever, we need nature as a balancing agent.

Nature does not have the capacity to heal all the wounds that have been inflicted upon it by mankind.

We speak often of 'destroying the planet' when what we mean is destroying its habitability for humans.

We depend on nature to survive... it is our responsibility also to take care of our home, planet Earth.

We're being challenged to do something so profound, it's unprecedented in the history of our species, and there couldn't be more at stake. It's not even our species at stake; it's the whole dream of life on earth that's taken 4.5 billion years to realize - all this beautiful pastoral life on earth.

When it comes to environmental regulation, the cruelty is the point.

It was once religion which told us that we are all sinners because of original sin. It is now the ecology of our planet which pronounces us all to be sinners because of the excessive exploits of human inventiveness.

Every breath we take as human beings damages the planet.

We have the world to live in on the condition that we will take good care of it. And to take good care of it, we have to know it. And to know it and to be willing to take care of it, we have to love it.

So often we talk about saving the planet, but what we really mean is to save the planet the way it is, so we can live here. So that is can sustain us. Because the planet doesn't need to be saved. It doesn't care if all the squirrels, elephants, and trees die and there's just a couple of amoebas floating around at the poles.

Because we're not in harmony with the environment, we're destroying the environment that supports us.

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

If you sort of treat the environment in sort of this mechanical, industrial way that there's a disconnect between man and the environment, it's very easy to treat people that way.

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

I love all of the Earth.

This Earth is our only home. Together, we must protect and cherish it.

Fundamentally, if you look at where the environmental issues are coming from, it's all because of humans and our impact on the environment, so while it's true that one individual is not going to sufficiently fix the environment, it is a necessary thing.

The environment will continue to deteriorate until pollution practices are abandoned.

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.

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