Ted Danson Quotes

Planet Earth is far more resilient than humans and will certainly outlive us.

The planet will adapt to anything. Maybe we should start to use the heart and the brain that we've been given to organize ourselves. Because if we keep screwing up things, we may be just passing by in the history of the planet.

There is nothing wrong with the planet. The planet is fine ... been here 4 1/2 billion years. We've been here, what, a 100,000 years, maybe 200,000. And we've only been engaged in heavy industry a little over 200 years. 200 years versus 4 1/2 billion. And we have the conceit to think that somehow we're a threat? The planet isn't going away. We are.

I don't think the planet can survive people. It's not the other way around. I don't think the planet can survive.

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.

We see an entire planet which has many limitations.

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

The earth is a fickle place for all life, not least the human project of civilization.

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

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

We shouldn't be saying 'Save the planet'; we should be saying: 'Save viable conditions in which people can live.' That's what we're dealing with here.

It's a war, I think, to save the planet, really, from ourselves.

Humanity is consuming the resources of the earth and life in an excessive and disordered way, forgetting the earth's own needs

My perspective is the Earth will be here. It just may not be habitable to our life form. We get confused. We think we're the center of everything.

I'm convinced that the earth is much stronger than us.

Most times, Mother Earth's resources are used up without the realisation that these thoughtless actions might just be the root cause for the hardships future generations may face. It is everyone's responsibility to hand over a green, clean, and healthy environment to them.

I never lose an opportunity to speak about my obsession: humankind and the environment.

My main issue is sustainability of the Earth, and protection of those animals and people who dwell here.

For how many people do you think might yet stand on this planet before the sun grows cold? That's the responsibility we hold in our hands.

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.

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

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

One who neglects or disregards the existence of earth, air, fire, water and vegetation disregards his own existence which is entwined with them.

I think it's important to be kind to the world before it disappears if we don't take care of it.