Rusty Schweickart Quotes

We have the capability - physically, technically - to protect the Earth from asteroid impacts. We are now able to very slightly and subtly reshape the solar system in order to enhance human survival.

The attempts to command the climate and decide about the temperature on our planet are wrong and arrogant. I wrote a book about it which was published in English under the title 'Blue Planet in Green Shackles.'

No other planet in the solar system is a suitable home for human beings; it's this world or nothing. That's a very powerful perception.

Our challenge is to give what account we can of what becomes of life in the solar system, this corner of the universe that is our home; and, most of all, what becomes of men-all men, of all nations, colors, and creeds. This has become one world, a world for all men. It is only such a world that can now offer us life, and the chance to go on.

We human beings can survive the most difficult of circumstances if we are not forced to stand alone.

We are in an environmental crisis which threatens the survival of this nation, and of the world as a suitable place of human habitation.

Because we have suffered, and we are not afraid to suffer in order to survive, we are ready to give up everything - even our lives - in our struggle for justice.

Wholeness is sort of a dubious concept. Because in terms of the human body and literal wholeness and structures, you think: "here are the structures that help make me whole." Family, or school, or the city I live in. When those structures are dysfunctional or decaying, you end up kind of Frankensteining pieces from everywhere in order to make yourself sated and comfortable and alive.

What after all, has maintained the human race on this old globe despite all the calamities of nature and all the tragic failings of mankind, if not faith in new possibilities, and courage to advocate them?

Great minds have always seen it. That is why man has survived his journey this long. When we fail to wish any longer to be otherwise than what we are, we will have ceased to evolve. Evolution has to be lived forward. I say this as one who has stood above the bones of much that has vanished, and at midnight has examined his own face.

Humanity's greatest challenge may soon be just making it to the next harvest.

There is no denying that we are still living in the capitalist world. I think that in order to survive and to change the world, you have to take care of yourself first. You have to survive yourself.

It takes a variety of strategies and initiatives to address this pandemic. It's about life and death and the survival of humanity.

The winter is forbidden till December, And exits March the second on the dot. By order summer lingers through September In Camelot.

Are we to assist it in gaining power in order to save our lives? Is that the paradox of our earthly situation?

A short-order cook, just off work, makes easy tracking for lions and worse

Where flowers degenerate man cannot live.

Wolves are disciplined not only when they hunt but also when they travel, when they play, and when they eat. Nature doesn't view discipline as a negative thing. Discipline is DNA. Discipline is survival.

They must attack us in order to survive, just as we must destroy them to advance our historic mission.

The love expressed between women is particular and powerful because we have had to love in order to live; love has been our survival.

Man's mind is his basic tool of survival. Life is given to him, survival is not.

A mystery of the universe is how it has managed to survive with so much volunteer help.

Our world is in profound danger. Mankind must establish a set of positive values with which to secure its own survival.

He squeezed her hand. "Then I'll come get you, wherever you are when it happens. We'll be okay." "But what about everybody else?" He stared out across the river, nodding slowly. "My guess is, everybody else is in big trouble.

Without the human community one single human being cannot survive.