Paul McCartney Quotes

I understand the nostalgia of having paper to feel and smell when you read it, but I would rather have fond memories of newspapers that have become obsolete than fond memories of beautiful forests that have become obsolete.

Sustainable development requires human ingenuity. People are the most important resource.

The future will either be green or not at all.

Our biggest challenge in this new century is to take an idea that seems abstract - sustainable development - and turn it into a reality for all the world's people

I've always been a strong supporter of environmental protection and initiatives in that area. But I'm willing to set priorities. If we have to make reductions in one place, we'll have to-in order to increase another place, I'm willing to do that.

It is a wonderful honor to receive the Audubon Medal from the National Audubon Society, which for more than a century has fought tirelessly to protect and preserve our natural resources and environment for future generations.

Sustainability is the key to our survival on this planet and will also determine success on all levels.

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

If you want grown-ups to recycle, just tell their kids the importance of recycling, and they'll be all over it.

I'd like to help repair the earth's ecosystems, and to fully live until I'm fully dead.

I wish we could launch a ground-breaking competition that motivates kids to invent new ideas in sustainable living.

Arbor Day is not like other holidays. Each of those reposes on the past, while Arbor Day proposes for the future.

The day we dispose of the idea of disposability will be a great one for the planet.

Conservation is for guilty people on Park Avenue with poodles and Pekingeses.

We have to find alternative ways of producing our raw materials without asking nature to do it for us.

I have great respect for people who live out their beliefs. For example, Ed Begley Jr. is an environmentalist, but he really lives his lives, and is he very prudent in the way he lives. He's cautious. He's not like an Al Gore that flies around in a private jet and burns 20,000 gallons a day on his jet.

There are more effective ways of tackling environmental problems including global warming, proliferation of plastics, urban sprawl, and the loss of biodiversity than by treaties, top-down regulations, and other approaches offered by big governments and their dependents.

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

When we realize we can make a buck cleaning up the environment, it will be done!

I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority.

We have a moral responsibility to protect the earth and ensure that our children and grandchildren have a healthy and sustainable environment in which to live.

If you develop in the old fashioned way there are enormous costs (to the environment)….but we have to demonstrate it, not just tell people.

The oldest task in human history: to live on a piece of land without spoiling it..

Manufacturers to Green when it makes more Green.

Let's care for the land and water, heal our cherished planet, and promote wellness for all of her people. Water is life. Let's protect the natural resources that our lives depend upon.