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Famous Saving The Earth Quotes

Planet Earth is our shared island, let us join forces to protect it — Ban Ki-moon

The fate of the living planet is the most important issue facing mankind. - Gaylord Nelson

The fate of the living planet is the most important issue facing mankind. — Gaylord Nelson

Save the trees, save the bees, save the whales, save those snails. — George Carlin

To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival. — Wendell Berry

The earth which sustains humanity must not be injured. It must not be destroyed! — Hildegard of Bingen

The care of the Earth is our most ancient and most worthy, and after all our most pleasing responsibility. To cherish what remains of it and to foster its renewal is our only hope. — Wendell Berry

The future will be green, or not at all. This truth lies at the heart of humankind's most pressing challenge: to learn to live in harmony with the Earth on a genuinely sustainable basis. — Jonathon Porritt

The Earth needs rebels! — David Icke

We must find our way back to true nature. We must set ourselves to the task of revitalizing the earth. Regreening the earth, sowing seeds in the desert--that is the path society must follow. — Masanobu Fukuoka

Saving the climate is our generational task. It must unite & encourage us. — Ursula von der Leyen

Earth is the holiest place in the Universe, loving the earth, and loving life is the way to generate positive vibrations. — Amit Ray

The Earth is not dying-it is being killed. And the people who are killing it have names and addresses. — Utah Phillips

The earth we abuse and the living things we kill will, in the end, take their revenge; for in exploiting their presence we are diminishing our future. — Marya Mannes

When the earth is sick and polluted, human health is impossible.... To heal ourselves we must heal our planet, and to heal our planet we must heal ourselves. — Bobby McLeod

You want to help mother Earth? Try sodomy. Sodomy is eco-friendly, and abortion is green. — Doug Stanhope

Short Saving The Earth Quotes

  • Respect Mother Earth and her giving ways or trade away our children's days. — Neil Young
  • If you are doing the right thing for the earth, she's giving you great company. — Vandana Shiva
  • Conservation means the wise use of the earth and its resources for the lasting good of men — Gifford Pinchot
  • Raising awareness on the most pressing environmental issues of our time is more important than ever. — Leonardo DiCaprio
  • So I'm going to go on and work on preserving the ozone layer, encouraging everyone to recycle. — Dean Stockwell
Saving the earth quote Rushing never saved the time that planning did.
Rushing never saved the time that planning did.

Inspirational Quotes

Religion is for people who fear hell, spirituality is for people who have been there. — David Bowie

One day you will ask me which is more important? My life or yours? I will say mine and you will walk away not knowing that you are my life. — Kahlil Gibran

Life is short. Kiss slowly, laugh insanely, love truly and forgive quickly - Paulo Coelho

Life is short. Kiss slowly, laugh insanely, love truly and forgive quickly — Paulo Coelho

Saving the earth quote No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.
No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved. — Helen Keller

Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your minds — Paul the Apostle

If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more, and become more, you are a leader. — John Quincy Adams

Saving the earth quote Be still, and the earth will speak to you.
Be still, and the earth will speak to you.

If God is for us, who can be against us? — Paul the Apostle

The POSITIVE THINKER sees the INVISIBLE, feels the INTANGIBLE, and achieves the IMPOSSIBLE. — Winston Churchill

I had to make my own living and my own opportunity. But I made it! Don't sit down and wait for the opportunities to come. Get up and make them. — Madam C. J. Walker

Every day may not be good... but there's something good in every day — Alice Morse Earle

Save Earth Save Life Quotes

We are the most dangerous species of life on the planet, and every other species, even the earth itself, has cause to fear our power to exterminate. But we are also the only species which, when it chooses to do so, will go to great effort to save what it might destroy. — Wallace Stegner

Because in no other person but the historic Jesus of Nazareth has God become man and lived a human life on earth, died to bear the penalty of our sins, and been raised from death and exalted to glory, there is no other Savior, for there is no other person who is qualified to save. — John Stott

When the Earth is sick, the animals will begin to disappear, when that happens, The Warriors of the Rainbow will come to save them. — Chief Seattle

Saving the earth quote If nothing saves us from death, may love at least save us from life.
If nothing saves us from death, may love at least save us from life.

They kill good trees to put out bad newspapers. — James G. Watt

I will not kill or hurt any living creature needlessly, nor destroy any beautiful thing, but will strive to save and comfort all gentle life, and guard and perfect all natural beauty upon the earth. — John Ruskin

It is not man the ecological crisis threatens to destroy but the quality of human life. — Rene Dubos

Saving the earth quote Heaven on Earth is a choice you must make, not a place you must find.
Heaven on Earth is a choice you must make, not a place you must find.

We owe our lives to the sun... How is it, then, that we feel no gratitude? — Lewis Thomas

Biodiversity is the totality of all inherited variation in the life forms of Earth, of which we are one species. We study and save it to our great benefit. We ignore and degrade it to our great peril. — E. O. Wilson

Life in Lubbock, Texas, taught me ... that sex is the most awful, filthy thing on earth and you should save it for someone you love. — Butch Hancock

We should never forget that God granted us the power to reason so that we would do His work here on Earth - so that we would use science to cure disease, and heal the sick, and save lives. — Barack Obama

Save Nature Save Earth Quotes

Nature is painting for us, day after day, pictures of infinite beauty. — John Ruskin

We never know the worth of water till the well is dry. — Thomas Fuller

To be whole. To be complete. Wildness reminds us what it means to be human, what we are connected to rather than what we are separate from. — Terry Tempest Williams

Saving the earth quote Be humble for you are made of earth. Be noble for you are made of stars.
Be humble for you are made of earth. Be noble for you are made of stars.

We shall continue to have a worsening ecologic crisis until we reject the Christian axiom that nature has no reason for existence save to serve man. — Lynn Townsend White, Jr.

Environmentally friendly cars will soon cease to be an option...they will become a necessity. — Fujio Cho

Waste not the smallest thing created, for grains of sand make mountains, and atomies infinity. — Eric Knight

Saving the earth quote No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one way. We ourselves must walk the path.
No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one way. We ourselves must walk the path.

When you defile the pleasant streams, And the wild bird's abiding place, You massacre a million dreams, And cast your spittle in God's face — John Drinkwater

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

Our environmental problems originate in the hubris of imagining ourselves as the central nervous system or the brain of nature. We're not the brain, we are a cancer on nature. — David Foreman

Human destiny is bound to remain a gamble, because at some unpredictable time and in some unforeseeable manner nature will strike back. — Rene Dubos

Save Earth Quotes

I don’t know how to save the world. I don’t have the answers or The Answer. I hold no secret knowledge as to how to fix the mistakes of generations past and present. I only know that without compassion and respect for all of Earth’s inhabitants, none of us will survive—nor will we deserve to. — Leonard Peltier

You have one business on earth – to save souls. - John Wesley

You have one business on earth – to save souls. — John Wesley

Remember that vision on the Mount of Transfiguration; and let it be ours, even in the glare of earthly joys and brightnesses, to lift up our eyes, like those wondering three, and see no man any more, save Jesus only. — Alexander Maclaren

Saving the earth quote The earth has music for those who listen.
The earth has music for those who listen.

In the New Testament grace means God's love in action towards men who merited the opposite of love. Grace means God moving heaven and earth to save sinners who could not lift a finger to save themselves. — J. I. Packer

Contrary to the rumours you have heard, I was not born in a manger. I was actually born on Krypton and sent here by my father, Jor-el, to save the planet Earth. — Barack Obama

Dig a trench through a landfill and you will see layers of phone books like geographical strata or layers of cake.... During a recent landfill dig in Phoenix, I found newspapers dating from 1952 that looked so fresh you might read one over breakfast. — William Rathje

Saving the earth quote Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on Earth.
Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on Earth.

Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us. — Henrik Tikkanen

The mother of the year should be a sterilized woman with two adopted children — Paul R. Ehrlich

The human race will be the cancer of the planet. — Julian Huxley

The earth has a skin and that skin has diseases; one of its diseases is called man. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Save Mother Earth Quotes

Man is a blind, witless, low brow, anthropocentric clod who inflicts lesions upon the earth. — Ian McHarg

Forests are the lungs of our land. — Franklin D. Roosevelt

If civilization has risen from the Stone Age, it can rise again from the Wastepaper Age. — Jacques Barzun

Saving the earth quote Here is a test to find whether your mission on earth is finished If you're alive it isn't.
Here is a test to find whether your mission on earth is finished If you're alive it isn't.

The word "wilderness" occurs approximately three hundred times in the Bible, and all its meanings are derogatory. — Rene Dubos

Every walk to the woods is a religious rite, every bath in the stream is a saving ordinance. Communion service is at all hours, and the bread and wine are from the heart and marrow of Mother Earth. — John Burroughs

Tooting, howling, screeching, booming, crashing, whistling, grinding, and trilling bolster his [mankind's] ego. His anxiety subsides. His inhuman void spreads monstrously like a gray vegetation. — Hans Arp

Saving the earth quote Let the beauty of what you love be what you do. There are a thousand ways to kneel and kiss the eart
Let the beauty of what you love be what you do. There are a thousand ways to kneel and kiss the earth.

The command, 'Be fruitful and multiply', was promulgated, according to our authorities, when the population of the world consisted of two persons. — William Ralph Inge

The desire to build a risk-free society has always been a sign of decadence. It has meant that the nation has given up, that it no longer believes in its destiny, that it has ceased to aspire to greatness, and has retired from history to pet itself. — Henry Fairlie

God forbid that India should ever take to industrialism after the manner of the west... keeping the world in chains. If [our nation] took to similar economic exploitation, it would strip the world bare like locusts. — Mahatma Gandhi

Everybody wants to save the Earth; nobody wants to help Mom do the dishes. — P. J. O'Rourke

Save The Planet Quotes

This is the moment when we must come together to save this planet. Let us resolve that we will not leave our children a world where the oceans rise and famine spreads and terrible storms devastate our lands. — Barack Obama

I believe that Elon Musk understands this important dynamic. For goodness sake, one of his top priorities is saving the planet. — Cathie Wood

Becoming vegan is the most important and direct change we can immediately make to save the planet and its species. — Chris Hedges

Let's be clear. The planet is not in jeopardy. We are in jeopardy. We haven't got the power to destroy the planet - or to save it. But we might have the power to save ourselves. — Michael Crichton

Advanced Courses [in Scientology] are the most valuable service on the planet. Life insurance, houses, cars, stocks, bonds, college savings, all are transitory and impermanent... There is nothing to compare with Advanced Courses. They are infinitely valuable and transcend time itself. — L. Ron Hubbard

If we save the planet and have a society of inequality, we wouldn't have saved much. — James H. Cone

Eating a vegetarian diet can contribute more to saving ourselves and the planet than any other single effort. — Sharon Gannon

If anyone wants to save the planet, all they have to do is just stop eating meat. That's the single most important thing you could do. It's staggering when you think about it. Vegetarianism takes care of so many things in one shot: ecology, famine, cruelty. — Paul McCartney

I feel more confident than ever that the power to save the planet rests with the individual consumer. — Denis Hayes

Real change will only happen when we fall in love with our planet. Only love can show us how to live in harmony with nature and with each other and save us from the devastating effects of environmental destruction and climate change — Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee

Save Our Planet Quotes

Any scientist can testify that a dead ocean means a dead planet .... No national law, no national precautions can save the planet. The ocean, more than any other part of our planet, ... is a classic example of the absolute need for international global action. — Thor Heyerdahl

What we can be scientifically certain of is that our continued use of fossil fuels is pushing us to a point of no return — Barack Obama

If there's reason for hope, it lies in man's occasional binges of cooperation. To save our planet, we'll need that kind of heroic effort, in which all types of people join forces for the common good — George Meyer

Unless we free ourselves from a dependence on these fossil fuels... we are condemning future generations to global catastrophe — Barack Obama

We know that when push comes to shove, [we can] drive ourselves to save our planet. — Jeff Corwin

The issue of climate change is one that we ignore at our own peril — Barack Obama

Saving our planet requires you to be ambitious in what you aim, and, equally, in how hard you work to reach your goal. — Ban Ki-moon

Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves. — Carl Sagan

I have this vision that I'm really watching each one of my daughters start to become women, and mothers. And this is what's gonna save our planet. — Giancarlo Esposito

We've been given this gift, our planet, and we've found no other place in the universe that we can inhabit. I want to do something to create radical change to help save it. It's our responsibility. — Leonardo DiCaprio

Save The World Quotes

Christ alone can save the world, but Christ cannot save the world alone. - David Livingstone

Christ alone can save the world, but Christ cannot save the world alone. — David Livingstone

If I had only one hour to save the world, I would spend fifty-five minutes defining the problem, and only five minutes finding the solution. — Albert Einstein

If you are in trouble anywhere in the world, an airplane can fly over and drop flowers, but a helicopter can land and save your life. — Igor Sikorsky

Graphic design will save the world right after rock and roll does. - David Carson

Graphic design will save the world right after rock and roll does. — David Carson

One day, through the Rosary and the Scapular, Our Lady will save the world. - Saint Dominic

One day, through the Rosary and the Scapular, Our Lady will save the world. — Saint Dominic

Genetic engineering has never been about saving the world, it's about controlling the world. — Vandana Shiva

Imagine a world where children were fed tasty and nutritious, real food at school from the age of 4 to 18. A world where every child was educated about how amazing food is, where it comes from, how it affects the body and how it can save their lives. — Jamie Oliver

If there were one million families praying the Rosary every day, the entire world would be saved. — Pope Pius X

I write ... in order to help ensure that the teeming millions in the New World, for whose sins Christ gave His life, do not continue to die in ignorance, but rather are brought to knowledge of God and thereby saved. — Bartolome de las Casas

The hardest spiritual work in the world is to love the neighbor as the self - to encounter another human being not as someone you can use, change, fix, help, save, enroll, convince or control, but simply as someone who can spring you from the prison of yourself, if you will allow it. — Barbara Brown Taylor

Destroying The Earth Quotes

If you talk to the animals they will talk with you and you will know each other. If you do not talk to them you will not know them and what you do not know, you will fear. What one fears, one destroys. — Chief Dan George

When I orbited the Earth in a spaceship, I saw for the first time how beautiful our planet is. Mankind, let us preserve and increase this beauty, and not destroy it! — Yuri Gagarin

Any fool can destroy trees, they cannot run away. — John Muir

The world is a hellish place, and bad writing is destroying the quality of our suffering. — Tom Waits

One-fourth of humanity must be eliminated from the social body. We are in charge of God's selection process for planet Earth. He selects, we destroy. We are the riders of the pale horse, Death. — Barbara Marx Hubbard

The earth will not continue to offer its harvest, except with faithful stewardship. We cannot say we love the land and then take steps to destroy it for use by future generations. — Pope John Paul II

If this earth should ever be destroyed, it will be by desire, by the lust of pleasure and self-gratification, by greed of the green frog skin, by people who are mindful of their own self, forgetting about the wants of others. — John Fire Lame Deer

No power on this earth can destroy the thirst for human dignity — Nelson Mandela

The earth will end only when God declares it's time to be over. Man will not destroy this earth. This earth will not be destroyed by a flood. — John Shimkus

You think you can destroy the planet? What intoxicating vanity. . . . . We've been residents here for the blink of an eye. If we're gone tomorrow, the earth will not miss us. — Michael Crichton

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More Saving The Earth Quotes

Because the relationship between self and world is reciprocal, it is not a matter of first getting enlightened or saved and then acting. As we work to heal the Earth, the Earth heals us. No need to wait. As we care enough to take risks, we loosen the grip of ego and begin to come home to our true nature. — Joanna Macy

What if a small group of world leaders were to conclude that the principal risk to the Earth comes from the actions of the rich countries?... In order to save the planet, the group decides: Isn't the only hope for the planet that the industrialized civilizations collapse? Isn't it our responsibility to bring that about? — Maurice Strong

Unless we change our food choices, nothing else matters. Because it is meat that is destroying most of our forests. It is meat that pollutes the waters. It is meat that is creating disease which leads to all our money being diverted to hospitals. So, it's the first choice for anybody who wants to save the Earth. — Maneka Gandhi

The Saviour Himself is the door of the sheepfold: 'I am the door of the sheep.' Into this fold of Jesus Christ, no man may enter unless he be led by the Sovereign Pontiff; and only if they be united to him can men be saved, for the Roman Pontiff is the Vicar of Christ and His personal representative on earth. — Pope John XXII

We're just a conceited, naked ape. But in our minds we're some sort of "divine legend," and we see ourselves as some sort of god. That we can walk around the earth deciding who will live and who will die and what will be destroyed and what will be saved. But the fact is we're just a bunch of primates out of control. — Paul Watson

In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free - honorable alike in what we give and what we preserve. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope of earth. — Abraham Lincoln

You are not saved for the sole purpose of going to heaven; you are saved to finish your assignment on earth — Myles Munroe

Jesus first of all, loves His Father in heaven and would never compromise the message that sinners must be delivered or be damned. That is the reason Jesus came to earth-to save sinners. — Kirk Cameron

What we are doing to the forests of the world is but a mirror reflection of what we are doing to ourselves and to one another. — Mahatma Gandhi

We have forgotten how to be good guests, how to walk lightly on the earth as its other creatures do. — Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth

If we want children to flourish, to become truly empowered, then let us allow them to love the earth before we ask them to save it. Perhaps this is what Thoreau had in mind when he said, “the more slowly trees grow at first, the sounder they are at the core, and I think the same is true of human beings. — David Sobel

The climbing of earths heights, in itself, means little. That men and women want and try to climb them means everything. For it is the ultimate wisdom of the mountains that we are never so much human as when we are striving for what is beyond our grasp, and that there is no battle worth the winning save that against our own ignorance and fear. — James Ramsey Ullman

I think it is well . . . for the man in the street to realise there is no power on earth that can protect him from bombing, whatever people may tell him. The bomber will always get through. The only defence is in offence, which means that you have to kill more women and children more quickly than the enemy if you want to save yourselves. — Stanley Baldwin

We are learning that the earth functions like an invisible organism. We are the various cells of one living being. Those who work to save the earth are its antibodies. — Jeremy Rifkin

The Lord loves all people, but He loves those who seek Him even more. To his chosen ones the Lord gives such great grace that for love they forsake the whole earth, the whole world, and their souls burn with desire that all people might be saved and see the glory of the Lord. — Silouan the Athonite

In pragmatic terms, our challenge is less to save the earth from ourselves and more to save ourselves from an earth that, if pushed too far, has ample power to rock, burn, and shake us off completely. — Naomi Klein

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