William Safire Quotes

Before Man goes to the stars he should learn how to live on Earth .

If you are doing the right thing for the earth, she's giving you great company.

If we could feel what we are doing to the Earth, we would stop immediately.

Unless we connect directly with the earth, we will not have the faintest clue why we should save it…. Only if we understand the beauty of nature will we love it, and only if we become alerted to learn about the planet's disease processes can we decide to live our lives with a proper sense of ecological responsibility.

I have felt that connection and stewardship for Earth for as long as I can remember. And not just for Earth, but the whole universe.

It is clear to me that unless we connect directly with the earth, we will not have the faintest clue why we should save it.

Our biggest moral debt is to the environment. Take-take-take, nothing given back.

Working for the earth is not a way to get rich, it is a way to be rich.

The task for us now, if we are to survive, is to build the earth.

One of the penalties of an ecological education is that one lives alone in a world of wounds.

In losing stewardship we lose fellowship; we become outcasts from the great neighborhood of creation.

It seems to me that the earth may be borrowed but not bought. It may be used but not owned. We are tenants, not possessors, lovers and not masters.

To this day, I enjoy nature, the luxury of undisturbed wilderness, forests, mountains, lakes, rivers and deserts and their wildlife. But I also know that the greatest danger to their perpetuity is the pressure of human population.

I think the environment is possibly our most worrying thing at the moment, so I think mountaintops are the place to live.

The philosophy that I have worked under most of my life is that the serious study of natural history is an activity which has far-reaching effects in every aspect of a person's life. It ultimately makes people protective of the environment in a very committed way. It is my opinion that the study of natural history should be the primary avenue for creating environmentalists.

If you're imaginatively responsible to the place you live in, you understand the watershed.

We have to start listening to nature now.

We cannot live without the Earth or apart from it, and something is shrivelled in a man's heart when he turns away from it and concerns himself only with the affairs of men

I'm with the spirit of Earth-Day-yet-to-come. Nobody can really predict the future, all you can do is look at trends, and that could change at any moment.

We have a responsibility toward the other life-forms of our planet whose continued existence is threatened by the thoughtless behavior of our own human species. . . . Environmental responsibility – for if there is no God, then, obviously, it is up to us to put things right.

It's essential that we understand that taking care of the planet will be done as we take care of ourselves. You know that you can't really make much of a difference in things until you change yourself.

We must make living in harmony with the Earth a priority. This is our home... the only one we have!

If we go on using the Earth uncaringly and without replenishing it, then we are just greedy consumers.

Fortunately, we know more about the problems that we have than in all preceding history. We know now the consequences of the things that we put into the air, into the water - of the way we treat life on Earth.

Shouldn't every day be Earth Day? I mean, what are our options?