Van Jones Quotes

We have a country that we have to take care of.

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

I have spent my life fighting for our country and our values. When those values are jeopardized, when our democracy is threatened, I believe it is our responsibility to speak out and demand accountability.

We are far more concerned about the desecration of the flag than we are about the desecration of our land.

Nature does require her times of preservation.

I believe so strongly that you always need to leave things better than you found it.

I try to be eco-friendly in every possible way.

Americans want a nation-state: our own country with a history of freedom combined with responsibility.

It is really your behaviour that determines whether you're a patriot.

I will be the proud president of a proud nation.

As citizens and children of India - whether we live at home or abroad - we must ask ourselves how we can add to our country's pride.

I have my own career. I'm an environmentalist.

It's such an honor to represent my country.

I want to work on environmental issues.

Nothing is more conservative than conservation

We identify the flag with almost everything we hold dear on earth, peace, security, liberty, our family, our friends, our home. . .But when we look at our flag and behold it emblazoned with all our rights we must remember that it is equally a symbol of our duties. Every glory that we associate with it is the result of duty done.

Protection and patriotism are reciprocal.

We have to shift our attitude of ownership of nature to relationship with nature. The moment you change from ownership to relationship, you create a sense of the sacred.

Musicians have made incredible contributions to the conservation and environmental movement and continue to do so, more than ever.

A patriot is someone who cares what happens in their country.

A true patriot does not confuse government with country. A patriot's loyalty is to his country, and loyalty to country requires holding government accountable.

We each have a moral obligation to conserve and preserve beauty in this world; there is none to waste.

Patriotism is a lively sense of collective responsibility.

The vocation of being a 'protector' [. . .] means protecting all creation, the beauty of the created world, as the Book of Genesis tells us and as Saint Francis of Assisi showed us [. . .] In the end, everything has been entrusted to our protection, and all of us are responsible for it. Be protectors of God’s gifts!

You have a whole life in the outdoors, you realize you have a sense of responsibility to protect these wild places.