Severn Cullis-Suzuki Quotes

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.

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

The more we get out of the world the less we leave, and in the long run we shall have to pay our debts at a time that may be very inconvenient for our own survival.

The need to incorporate longer term time scales into our societal choices is very real—and right in the lap of our generation.

We cannot shirk responsibility from concerns for the welfare of the next generation.

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.

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.

I haven't inherited the earth from my parents, I am borrowing it from my children.

I think we need to take responsibility for the things we put on this planet, and also take responsibility for the things we take off the planet. We need to have limiters on how far we allow ourselves to go - ethical, moral limiters.

The world is using up its natural resources at an alarming rate, and this has caused a permanent shift in their value. We all need to adjust our behavior to this new environment. It would help if we did it quickly.

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.

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

At an ever accelerating rate we are now squandering the capital of metallic ores and fossil fuels accumulated in the earth’s crust during hundreds of millions of years. How long can this spending spree go on?

Everyone lives downstream from someone else.

Land is not something you inherit from your parents. It is something you borrow from your children.

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.

Humanity stands ... before a great problem of finding new raw materials and new sources of energy that shall never become exhausted. In the meantime we must not waste what we have, but must leave as much as possible for coming generations.

I gone on for years about the importance of thinking about the long term in relation to the environmental damage, climate change, and everything else because we don’t want to hand on an increasingly dysfunctional world to our grandchildren and I do not want to be confronted by my future grandchild saying, “Well why didn’t you do something?”

As a global community, we have to start thinking more seriously about whether there are limits to what our earth can bear and if we're willing to cope with the struggle for limited resources, which only seem to increase as our population does.

Your evolutionary heuristics come back to the idea of a future roughly similar to what it is now. You give to the community as it is now, to benefit a similar community in the future.

Growing up Marley, we wanted anything we put our hands on to be beneficial to the environment and the community.

We, the present generation, have the responsibility to act as a trustee of the rich natural wealth for the future generations. The issue is not merely about climate change; it is about climate justice.

It's shocking to think about how little the travel industry cares about sustainability - and it's the basis of their business!