Quotes About Responsibility

Our kinship with Earth must be maintained; otherwise, we will find ourselves trapped in the center of our own paved-over souls with no way out.

We're not trying to reinvent the wheel; for any environmental organization to claim sole responsibility for any kind of victory is insane, because everybody attacks these problems as a group.

Let he who would move the world, first complete an environmental impact assessment and a 90-day public comment period.

The ecological crisis is a moral issue.

America has not led but fled on the issue of global warming.

We do not ride on the railroad; it rides upon us.

You have to hold yourself accountable for your actions, and that's how we're going to protect the Earth.

I am unapologetic about asking people to connect up their own responsibility for their total environmental footprint and how they decide to procreate and how many children they think are appropriate.

Living wild species are like a library of books still unread. Our heedless destruction of them is akin to burning the library without ever having read its books.

The specific danger is us; we are rampant; this earth is our only friend; we are destroying it increment by increment at a horrific rate. We must understand that we can't buy it back.

It was not until we saw the picture of the earth, from the moon, that we realized how small and how helpless this planet is - something that we must hold in our arms and care for.

We have to show leadership in protecting our environment so that we have a future for our children and grandchildren.

Premium will increasingly be defined in terms of sustainability and environmental compatibility

The planet is about to break out with fever, indeed it may already have, and we [human beings] are the disease. We should be at war with ourselves and our lifestyles.

We must develop a better sense of responsibilty towards our total environment

Environmental issues are on everyone's mind. It's part of our culture now and I can only applaud and laud anyone who is doing what they can and raising awareness.

Feeling that morality has nothing to do with the way you use the resources of the world is an idea that can't persist much longer. If it does, then we won't.

We are the environment.

In losing stewardship we lose fellowship; we become outcasts from the great neighborhood of creation.

Most of the damage we cause to the planet is the result of our own ignorance.

Our generation was supposed to be about trying to deal with nuclear concerns and environmental disasters.

Every American expects and deserves clean air, and then we act on that belief, then we will set an example for the rest of the world to follow.

You don't have to live in the country and grow your own food to be green.

We must conserve our environment and pass it on to our children in as good or better condition than it was passed to us.