Dalai Lama Quotes

We talk of our mastery of nature, which sounds very grand; but the fact is we respectfully adapt ourselves, first, to her ways.

We are going to learn how to relate to the Earth and our own natural environment here by looking seriously at space colony ecologies.

Listening to nature's operating instructions.

Our relationship to the environment matters, our relationship to animals matters, and our relationship to culture matters.

Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment.

In time, we will have to recognise that it is not 'nature' that we need to protect, but ourselves, and we can only do this by abandoning the old, grandiose, profit-seeking schemes so beloved of our masters and learning to till the soil, live to scale, and live within our means.

Ask any parent what we want for our children, and invariably we say 'a better life.' To that end, we give our time, our sleep, our money, and our dreams, much as our parents did before us. We all want a better life for our children. But what we want for them ceases to matter if we leave them an unlivable world.

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

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

We should preserve every scrap of biodiversity as priceless while we learn to use it and come to understand what it means to humanity.

Nothing was made by God for man to spoil or destroy.

All true wealth is biological.

If I have any lasting worth, it will be because I have tried to make people remember what the Earth is meant to look like.

The Left is correctly wary of talk about nonhumans in the key of Nature and its spiritual partner, humanity.

I always turn to Wendell Berry for inspiration on food, community, agriculture, and, well, just being a human.

We can at least see that the question is asked, and asked on the basis of a clear recognition that there is no way of manipulating our environment that is without cost or consequence - and thus also of a recognition that we are inextricably bound up with the destiny of our world. There is no guarantee that the world we live in will "tolerate" us indefinitely if we prove ourselves unable to live within its constraints.

Conservation is not merely a question of morality, but a question of our own survival.

The proper use of science is not to conquer nature but to live in it.

I don't need to make money destroying my environment. Why don't I just love it and figure out a way to be more sustainable?

I think it is important that we all try and be green where it is possible; an awareness of the world around us can never be a bad thing.

We are not talking about esthetics. We are talking about life: survival of Man. We must train young people to get another vision of Nature. We call it 'wilderness,' and we think it is progress to get further and further away from it. How crazy! Where would we have been if Nature had not built us up?

Ecology is boring for the same reason that destruction is fun.

The human family has invaluable friends and irreplaceable allies in the plant and animal worlds. We cannot continue to tug at the web of life without tearing a hole in the very fabric of our earthly existence - and eventually falling through that hole ourselves.

We can conserve energy and tread more lightly on the Earth while we expand our culture's capacity for joy.

The bat­tle we have fought, and are still fight­ing for the forests is a part of the eter­nal con­flict between right and wrong, and we can­not expect to see the end of it. …So we must count on watch­ing and striv­ing for these trees, and should always be glad to find any­thing so surely good and noble to strive for.