Hugh Ross Quotes

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.

Address these environmental issues and you will address every issue known to man. And we keep dabbling in things that aren't really that important in the long term.

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.

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

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.

Now, the downside to conservation is that so much is done for the public, which almost always mars the environment that one wanted to conserve.

China leads the world in energy consumption, carbon emissions, and the release of major air and water pollutants, and the environmental impact is felt both regionally and globally.

The environment has fallen to the wayside in politics.

The most important environmental issue is one that is rarely mentioned, and that is the lack of a conservation ethic in our culture.

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.

It is not enough to celebrate the earth and all its inhabitants, we must restore what we have destroyed.

I became an environmentalist because I love the living world, but I spend much of my life thinking about electricity, industrial processes and civil engineering.

Protecting Americans from harm goes beyond police and national defense. It's imperative that we not destroy the commons, the physical environment on which we rely.

The images of Earth's delicate biosphere, contrasting with the sterile moonscape where the astronauts left their footsteps, have become iconic for environmentalists: these may indeed be the Apollo programme's most enduring legacy.

I travel all over the country speaking to young people, and I am always amazed at how engaged in environmental conservation they are.

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

Genetic design is something we can use to fight the lack of sustainability we humans are forcing on the earth's environment.

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

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

Mother Nature comes up against reality, and the reality is that the system doesn't work.

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.

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

I wouldn't want anyone to destroy the earth.

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

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