Mikhail Gorbachev Quotes

Future generations are not going to ask us what political party were you in. They are going to ask what did you do about it, when you knew the glaciers were melting.

What we are doing to the future of our children, and the other species on the planet, is a clear moral issue.

The only thing that can save us as a species is seeing how we're not thinking about future generations in the way we live.

When we look as a society, we've really lost the connection between our actions and the future.

I plant a lot of trees. I am a great believer in planting things for future generations. I loathe the now culture where you just live for today.

When I joined Ford, in the late 1970s, I felt strongly we could not forever be a huge user of natural resources without there being consequences. But I was alone in my thinking in those days.

A true conservationist is a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers, but borrowed from his children.

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

The most important thing about global warming is this. Whether humans are responsible for the bulk of climate change is going to be left to the scientists, but it's all of our responsibility to leave this planet in better shape for the future generations than we found it.

I was really educating myself on the environment, but I didn't realize it was so connected to politics, connected to globalization.

I think it's really important that we understand that we share this world and we're connected to it.

If we intend to provide a better life, and a better world, for future generations, we can't ignore the quality of the environment we leave them.

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

We owe at least this much to future generations, from whom we have borrowed a fragile planet called Earth.

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.

If future generations are to remember us more with gratitude than sorrow, we must achieve more than just the miracles of technology. We must also leave them a glimpse of the world as it was created, not just as it looked when we got through with it.

What we owe future generations is the subject of growing debate by economists, philosophers, ethicists, public policymakers, and academics of all stripes. But for me as a mother, the moral implications are very clear. We owe them clean air and fresh water, a healthy planet and a secure future.

We are living beyond our means. As a people we have developed a life-style that is draining the earth of its priceless and irreplaceable resources without regard for the future of our children and people all around the world.

Rather than rewarding today’s voters with benefits financed by future generations, as Congress typically does, solving the climate problem will require costly actions now to protect those who will follow us.

What turned me into an environmentalist, on my eleventh birthday, was seeing the first strip mine.

I was always a girl who loved animals and cared about the environment - um, I totally recycled at home and turned the lights off every time I left! But it wasn't until I met the love of my life, Philippe Cousteau, that I realized every thing we do, buy and use makes a difference in the world... for better or worse.

I think about the world that we leave behind for our children.

It truly seems to me that there is some kind of shift happening towards ecological awareness - not just in terms of PR for the science.

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

The Earth is a beautiful planet. The space station is a great vantage point to observe it and share our planet in pictures. It makes you more of an environmentalist.