Quotes About Responsibility

Being emotional is normal, all part of the job.

Sometimes, it's hard to separate manager mode from mom mode. I think, as our manager, my mom will get more emotional about situations than she would if she was just our manager.

Stop thinking like Alice in Wonderland, Celia told herself sternly. You're a grown-up, it's no use shutting your eyes, wishing things would happen

The most important environmental issue is one that is rarely mentioned, and that is the lack of a conservation ethic in our culture.

We're terrible animals. I think that the Earth's immune system is trying to get rid of us, as well it should.

There must be a reason why some people can afford to live well. They must have worked for it. I only feel angry when I see waste. When I see people throwing away things we could use.

Mankind has probably done more damage to the Earth in the 20th century than in all of previous human history.

We must strive to become good ancestors.

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

In America today you can murder land for private profit. You can leave the corpse for all to see, and nobody calls the cops.

Out of all those millions and millions of planets floating around there in space, this is our planet, this is our little one, so we just got to be aware of it and take care of it.

Climate change is for real. We have just a small window of opportunity and it is closing rather rapidly. There is not a moment to lose.

Eating is an environmental act.

If we do not permit the earth to produce beauty and joy, it will in the end not produce food, either.

Our stewardship of the Earth is brief. We owe it to those who follow to keep that in perspective, to be responsible passengers along the way.

You may think your actions are meaningless and that they won't help, but that is no excuse, you must still act.

Environmental justice [means that] no community should be saddled with more environmental burdens and less environmental benefits than any other.

If we go on using the Earth uncaringly and without replenishing it, then we are just greedy consumers.

We've got to ride the global-warming issue. Even if the theory of global warming is wrong, we will be doing the right thing in terms of economic policy and environmental policy.

Climate change is happening, humans are causing it, and I think this is perhaps the most serious environmental issue facing us.

There is no doubt that we live in an age of unprecedented, and sometimes terrifying, technological advance where the speed of advance so often outstrips the necessary ethical considerations.

What changed in the United States with Hurricane Katrina was a feeling that we have entered a period of consequences.

If we do not serve what coheres and endures, we serve what disintegrates and destroys.

We have been too kind to those who are killing the planet. We have been inexcusably, unforgivably, insanely kind.