Michael Shermer Quotes

We always have to remind ourselves of how fragile life on this planet is and what responsibilities we have.

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

We owe it to each other - and to our children and grandchildren - to leave our planet in a better state than when we found it.

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.

A true conservationist is a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers, but borrowed from his children.

If we do not permit the earth to produce beauty and joy, it will in the end not produce food, either.

Each generation takes the earth as trustees. We ought to bequeath to posterity as many forests and orchards as we have exhausted and consumed.

Nature has provided us a spectacular toolbox. The toolbox exists. An architect far better and smarter than us has given us that toolbox, and we now have the ability to use it.

Right now, we don't have a very good relation with creation.

We are going to inherit the earth; there is not the slightest doubt about that.

On Earth Day, we celebrate all the gifts the world and nature make available to us. We recognize our complete dependence on its bounty. And we acknowledge the need for good stewardship to preserve its fruits for future generations.

Hopefully, generations after us will continue to protect, preserve, and look after this wonderful land.

Sooner or later, we will have to recognise that the Earth has rights, too, to live without pollution. What mankind must know is that human beings cannot live without Mother Earth, but the planet can live without humans.

The care of the Earth is our most ancient and most worthy, and after all our most pleasing responsibility. To cherish what remains of it and to foster its renewal is our only hope.

This land, this water, this air, this planet - this is our legacy to our young.

Our challenge for the future is that we realize we are very much a part of the earth's ecosystem, and we must learn to respect and live according to the basic biological laws of nature.

We are going to learn how to relate to the Earth and our own natural environment here by looking seriously at space colony ecologies.

We need to put our priority on protecting this exceptional way of life.

I do hope there are other wonderful planets living and thriving out there, but ours is special because it is ours and ours to take care of. We really can't take that too lightly.

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.

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

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.

I don't flatter myself - I'm not a scientist, I'm not a conservation expert.

We should conceive of ourselves not as rulers of Earth, but as highly powerful, conscious stewards: The Earth is given to us in trust, and we can screw it up or make it work well and sustainably.

Instead of passing on choppy waters to the next generation, we should endeavor to leave them a calmer sea.