Helen Caldicott Quotes

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.

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

Not all is doom and gloom. We are beginning to understand the natural world and are gaining a reverence for life - all life.

Our conservation laws are based on static ideas about nature—not landscapes that are rapidly changing because of something humans did.

In the end, we will conserve only what we love, we will love only what we understand, and we will understand only what we are taught.

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.

After all, sustainability means running the global environment - Earth Inc. - like a corporation: with depreciation, amortization and maintenance accounts. In other words, keeping the asset whole, rather than undermining your natural capital.

The Earth does not belong to us: we belong to the Earth.

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

Why are ecologists and environmentalists so feared and hated? This is because in part what they have to say is new to the general public, and the new is always alarming.

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

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

I like the outdoors and the natural world. Environmental issues.

Too often, people think that solving the world's problems is based on conquering the earth, rather than touching the earth, touching ground.

There isn't a person on Earth who couldn't use a connection with nature.

I maintain that if there is such a thing as a true and honest environmentalist, it's people like Slim and hopefully me, who have been caretakers of the land all our lives, along with the generations before us.

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.

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.

People must feel that the natural world is important and valuable and beautiful and wonderful and an amazement and a pleasure.

I do believe very strongly that all of us and all of the other things in the context of our planet with Mother Nature, all of these things absolutely have a profound effect.

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.

Ecology has become the political substitute for the word "motherhood.

In the long term the economy and the environment are the same thing. If it is unenvironmental it is uneconomical. That is a rule of nature.