Quotes August 31, 2023

Whatever the present moment contains, accept it as if you had chosen it.
Eckhart Tolle
 
 
 
 
The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us, the less taste we shall have for the destruction of our race.
Rachel Carson, marine biologist and conservationist
 
 
 
 
You cannot protect the environment unless you empower people, you inform them, and you help them understand that these resources are their own, that they must protect them.
Wangari Maathai, Nobel Peace Prize-winning environmentalist
 
 
 
 
To make the changes we need to make and to reach a safer future, we will need the resources of everybody here — the scientists, the policy makers, and the industrialists — all working together towards a common goal. And that goal is a planet that can continue to support life.
Piers Sellers, astronaut
 
 
 
 
We need a national political leader to step forward, an environmental Churchill, to rally the world around this mobilization.
Lester R. Brown, environmental analyst
 
 
 
 
Instead of controlling the environment for the benefit of the population, perhaps it’s time we control the population to allow the survival of the environment.
David Attenborough
 
 
 
 
I see reasons to be optimistic. Nature is resilient. If we work to restore those places that we have destroyed, if we give them time, they will recover.
Jane Goodall
 
 
 
 
Ours is a world of looming challenges and increasingly limited resources. Sustainable development offers the best chance to adjust our course.
Ban Ki-moon, U.N. secretary-general
 
 
 
 
You have got to take responsibility for your life and the world. You have got to do something to pay your rent for the privilege of inhabiting this beautiful, blue-green, living Earth.
David Foreman, activist and conservationist
 
 
 
 
For millennia, the Western world above all has lived by the philosophy of humans first, even humans only. It is now time for a new philosophy of Earth first whereby humanity begins the arduous process of de-growth.
Steven Best, philosopher and activist
 
 
 
 
The greatest danger to our planet is the belief that someone else will save it.
Robert Swan, explorer and environmental activist
 
 
 
 
We only get one planet. Humankind must become accountable on a massive scale for the wanton destruction of our collective home. Protecting our future on this planet depends on the conscious evolution of our species.
Leonardo DiCaprio
 
 
 
 
A vibrant, fair, and regenerative future is possible — not when thousands of people do climate justice activism perfectly but when millions of people do the best they can.
Xiye Bastida, climate activist