Thomas Friedman Quotes

The truth is: the natural world is changing. And we are totally dependent on that world. It provides our food, water and air. It is the most precious thing we have and we need to defend it.

What is more important for the world right now than preserving ways of living in balance with the earth?

We only have this one planet; we got to figure out how to live on it without destroying it.

If you're asking me do we want clean air and clean water? Yes. Do we want a safer climate for future generations of the world? Of course we want that. We're working super hard here in Trump Tower to make sure that happens.

Environmentalists and clean energy champions should stop telling people that we are working for "sustainability," which nobody understands.

Preservation of the environment, promotion of sustainable development and particular attention to climate change are matters of grave concern for the entire human family.

Protecting the environment is really important to everyone's welfare - that of our children, as well as that of the future generations.

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.

The truth is, natural organisms have managed to do everything we want to do without guzzling fossil fuels, polluting the planet or mortgaging the future.

The future will either be green or not at all.

We can make a concerted effort to stop poisoning the planet: that would be a good way of appeasing the gods.

New Jerseyans know the importance of clean air, clean drinking water, and protecting our natural resources.

We must instil our future leaders with the expertise, knowledge and skills to prevent climate breakdown and restore nature to health.

Fighting Climate Change calls for innovation, cooperation and will power to make the changes that the world needs.

It drives me crazy to see so much of this planet's life so casually endangered. The first steps are so easy (drive smaller cars, for instance) that it's very hard to understand why we haven't taken them. But I know that this is the issue our generation will be judged by.

We have to start listening to nature now.

I see the day in our own lifetime that reverence for the natural systems, the oceans, the rainforests, the soil, the grasslands, and all other living things will be so strong that no narrow ideology based upon politics or economics will overcome it.

Sustainable development and climate change are two sides of the same coin

I feel that our planet is in peril and that creating a sustainable planet for my children and my children's children is the most important thing I can do in this lifetime.

When we speak about climate change, you're a victim of something ... which is happening with deep roots where you don't have - anything to deal with. And people just want to choose a life. That's very much important. And I think one of the key elements of the collective battle we have today, in order to fight against climate change is to provide people the ability to choose a life. To have a better life by behaving differently, by innovating, by creating new type of companies and startups, new type of activities.

Preservation of our environment is not a liberal or conservative challenge, it's common sense.

I have been fighting climate change and working to improve our environment.

We had some major successes and we did so because the country embraced the spirit of Earth Day and embraced this concept that we have to have forward-looking, visionary environmental policy and energy policy in this country.

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

The principles that will save Earth's life are the same principles that save the living souls of humans: ineluctable spiritual principles.