Kevin Richardson Quotes

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

Environmental activism against the resource industry is widespread all over the world, but at the same time we have to realise that these are basic materials on which civilisation depends. We need to tap natural resources in a sustainable manner.

I wish my artwork could persuade millions of people to join a global conversation about sustainability.

Environmental pollution is an incurable disease. It can only be prevented.

Environmental policy must strike a balance between the earth's best interests and our citizen's pressing needs.

To waste, to destroy, our natural resources, to skin and exhaust the land instead of using it so as to increase its usefulness, will result in undermining in the days of our children the very prosperity which we ought by right to hand down to them amplified and developed.

Pollution is nothing but resources we're not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we've been ignorant of their value.

The current challenge facing the environmental authorities is how to properly deal with the environmental problems caused by economic development.

I agree on the need for environmental sustainability. It is no good raising gross national income while at the same time destroying natural assets.

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.

Journey with me to a true commitment to our environment. Journey with me to the serenity of leaving to our children a planet in equilibrium.

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

Environmentalism opposes reckless innovation and makes conservation the central order of business.

I think the greatest challenge in environmentalism and the most rewarding challenge is trying to figure out how humans can meet their needs while protecting the environment.

I tell my environmental friends that they have won. Every issue we look at from an energy perspective is now also looked at from an environmental perspective.

So I'm going to go on and work on preserving the ozone layer, encouraging everyone to recycle.

Environmentalism isn't a discipline or specialty. It's a way of seeing our place in the world. And we need everybody to see the world that way. Don't think 'In order to make a difference I have to become an environmentalist.'

We can make the world a better place, one butt at a time.

This whole idea that we address environmental issues by not doing stuff just doesn't work.

I wanted to help raise awareness, so I created an environmental foundation called Just Within Reach.

I, Maggie, personally cannot tell you that you're going to save the planet. But what I do know is that we can draw a line to an issue that can conserve what we already have and what's left in a way that we can actually breathe the air, drink the water, actually grow things in soil - that matters in a real, practical way.

Environmental concern is now firmly embedded in public life: in education, medicine and law; in journalism, literature and art.

And I know that the younger generation is doing things that are so ingenious. And for them it's not a matter of a political belief or an environmental stance. It's really just common sense.

The future will either be green or not at all.

We must not be the generation responsible for irreversibly damaging the environment. We must hand it over to our children in as near pristine condition as we were lent it from our parents.