Rusty Schweickart Quotes

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

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

My main issue is sustainability of the Earth, and protection of those animals and people who dwell here.

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

We're busily wrecking the chances for future generations at a rapid rate of knots by not recognizing the damage we're doing to the natural environment, bearing in mind that this is the only planet that we know has any life on it.

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

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

I do see a lot of the hard end of ecology, and my feeling is that we live on a super-exciting planet but a super-fragile one.

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.

The most important principle of environment is that you are not the only element.

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.

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.

Protecting our environment and natural resources is necessary for both our planet and our economy.

Trivially speaking, ecological awareness means realising that beings are interconnected in some way, but then we have to figure out what this interconnection actually means.

Our ecological emergency demands proactive choices, not reactive sideswipes.

Humanity has at least a dim, and growing, cognisance of the effects of its presence on this planet. The possibility that we might integrate that awareness into how we interface with the Earth system is one that should give us hope.

Wouldn't it help Americans more, in the long run, if we were forced to accept some responsibility for the environmental wreckage we prefer to assume is totally out of our control?

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

The most interesting thing about change in the environment is that for the most part the environment isn't changing.

I can't imagine anything more important than air, water, soil, energy and biodiversity. These are the things that keep us alive.

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

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

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.

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