Janine Benyus 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.

Unless we practice conservation, those who come after us will have to pay the price of misery, degradation, and failure for the progress and prosperity of our day.

Protecting the environment is just as important a priority as the economic imperatives.

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

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.

The first rule of sustainability is to align with natural forces, or at least not try to defy them.

The destruction of our environment and resources cannot be stemmed unless the growth of the world's population is stemmed and ultimately reduced.

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

If we intend to provide a better life, and a better world, for future generations, we can't ignore the quality of the environment we leave them.

Indeed, our particular concept of private property, which deters us from exhausting the positive resources of the earth, favors pollution.

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 future will either be green or not at all.

People are beginning to realize that we need to live in accordance with the law of ecology, the law of finite resources, and if we don't, we're going to go extinct.

Natural resources are so vast that no single individual or business is going to protect them; they don't have an incentive to.

Time is running out if we want our next generations and the generations after that to continue living on this beautiful planet.

Good stewardship of the environment and our natural resources is necessary.

We need to protect our environment and make our economy more sustainable so that we can pass on a better world to our grandchildren.

We only have one earth. Let's take care of it.

We are now heading down a centuries-long path toward increasing the productivity of our natural capital - the resource systems upon which we depend to live - instead of our human capital.

Even in America, people have said again and again that they would be willing to sacrifice for a cleaner environment.

Journey with me to a true commitment to our environment. Journey with me to the serenity of leaving to our children a planet in equilibrium.

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

I'm an environmentalist; I recycle.

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

How much will you give for the lives of your childrens children, which is yourself? How much are people willing to give up for air, earth, water, animals, and the coming generations? I think the answer to that is pretty clear.