Chris Gibson Quotes

Hopefully, generations after us will continue to protect, preserve, and look after this wonderful land.

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

I'd like to continue to spread my message on conservation and make sure my dad's message - his legacy - lives on.

Through no divine design or cosmic plan, we have inherited the mantle of life's caretaker on the earth, the only home we have ever known.

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.

I maintain that if there is such a thing as a true and honest environmentalist, it's people like Slim and hopefully me, who have been caretakers of the land all our lives, along with the generations before us.

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 care of the Earth is our most ancient and most worthy, and after all our most pleasing responsibility. To cherish what remains of it and to foster its renewal is our only hope.

This land, this water, this air, this planet - this is our legacy to our young.

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.

Conservation must become before recreation.

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

Let's try to protect everything that's important to us.

I am a conservationist. It is in my DNA.

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

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?

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.

We should conceive of ourselves not as rulers of Earth, but as highly powerful, conscious stewards: The Earth is given to us in trust, and we can screw it up or make it work well and sustainably.

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

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.

We must conserve our environment and pass it on to our children in as good or better condition than it was passed to us.

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.