Jaggi Vasudev Quotes

Conservation is not without a cost.

A fascinating challenge facing today's environmental movement is how to best approach the reversal of past decisions that altered once-pristine environmental spaces for the sake of urgent man-made needs.

Unless we practice conservation, those who come after us will have to pay the price of misery, degradation, and failure for the progress and prosperity of our day.

Indeed, our particular concept of private property, which deters us from exhausting the positive resources of the earth, favors pollution.

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

In the long term the economy and the environment are the same thing. If it is unenvironmental it is uneconomical. That is a rule of nature.

It is not enough to celebrate the earth and all its inhabitants, we must restore what we have destroyed.

I agree on the need for environmental sustainability. It is no good raising gross national income while at the same time destroying natural assets.

We've been at war with nature. Now we need to apologize and clean up.

We are now heading down a centuries-long path toward increasing the productivity of our natural capital - the resource systems upon which we depend to live - instead of our human capital.

If the world is presented as resources to be exploited, then, more than likely, you're going to exploit the world.

Each generation takes the earth as trustees. We ought to bequeath to posterity as many forests and orchards as we have exhausted and consumed.

If, in our haste to 'progress,' the economics of ecology are disregarded by citizens and policy makers alike, the result will be an ugly America. We cannot afford an America where expedience tramples upon esthetics and development decisions are made with an eye only on the present.

We're busily wrecking the chances for future generations at a rapid rate of knots by not recognizing the damage we're doing to the natural environment, bearing in mind that this is the only planet that we know has any life on it.

The first rule of sustainability is to align with natural forces, or at least not try to defy them.

I really wonder what gives us the right to wreck this poor planet of ours.

The destruction of our environment and resources cannot be stemmed unless the growth of the world's population is stemmed and ultimately reduced.

We owe it to each other - and to our children and grandchildren - to leave our planet in a better state than when we found it.

So often we talk about saving the planet, but what we really mean is to save the planet the way it is, so we can live here. So that is can sustain us.

Earth Day should encourage us to reflect on what we are doing to make our planet a more sustainable and livable place.

Americans trash the planet not because we're evil, but because the industrial systems we've devised leave no other choice. Our ranch houses and high-rises, factories and farms, freeways and power plants were conceived before we had a clue how the planet works.

The environmental crisis is all a result of rushing.

Conservation is a state of harmony between men and land.

Climate change is destroying our path to sustainability. Ours is a world of looming challenges and increasingly limited resources. Sustainable development offers the best chance to adjust our course.

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.