Arthur Boyd Quotes

Kids are an important audience to reach for the future of the planet.

You can only get really unpopular decisions through if the electorate is convinced of the value of the environment. That's what natural history programmes should be for.

That's the big mistake the environmental movement made - 'We'll scare the hell out of you, and you'll become an activist'.

We gotta leave a better planet for our kids. And I would say we gotta leave better kids for our planet as well.

I get these students who come in and say, I want to help people. I say, people get plenty of help. Why don't you help the planet?

I think and hope there are far more people aware of the need to look after our future.

It is a wonderful honor to receive the Audubon Medal from the National Audubon Society, which for more than a century has fought tirelessly to protect and preserve our natural resources and environment for future generations.

I travel all over the country speaking to young people, and I am always amazed at how engaged in environmental conservation they are.

We've all heard of the surveys revealing that teenagers think cows lay eggs, and others where children can identify more brand logos than trees, by a staggering margin. My view is that children will form a significant part of the green fightback. They instinctively understand the value of the environment.

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

If there was a time when 'The Ecologist' appeared not to be making a difference at all, not doing something useful, I wouldn't do 'The Ecologist,' but I think it is useful.

Well, perhaps the greatest achievement, and we didn't know it at the time, was we held an Earth Day in 1970, and out of that Earth Day a lot of students got involved in saving the environment, or trying to.

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

I think the new generation is much more demanding about respect for the environment than we have ever imagined.

It must be possible to solve the task of controlling nature and yet simultaneously create a new freedom.

I see my filming career as an opportunity to get the message of conservation out to an even greater audience.

I began working with the John Muir Institute and then started helping found Friends of the Earth organizations here and there in other countries. That pretty well brings us up to the present.

Helping people understand the impact of key environmental and human issues worldwide is something that I'm passionate about. CNN's 'Going Green' series of specials are engaging viewers around the world through important messages of conservation and hope.

Why has it seemed that the only way to protect the environment is with heavy-handed government regulation?

If you want to go beyond that small percentage of people who are already environmentally and scientifically aware, you have to make your work somehow link with a passion, interest, or profession of someone who isn't interested in science or nature.

I don't do celebrity endorsements. My work with Conservation International is a good use of whatever celebrity I might have to draw attention to important problems. I have the same responsibility as everyone to reduce consumption and to teach children to respect the environment.

I believe we should be good custodians of the Earth.

Local innovation and initiative can help us better understand how to protect our environment.

The earth is a tremendous gift. There is nothing else like it in the known universe. I want to leave it the way I found it.

The education of women is the best way to save the environment.