Our greatest responsibility is to be good ancestors.
~ Congressman George Brown
The economy is a wholly owned subsidiary of the environment.
~ Senator Gaylord Nelson, founder of Earth Day
The world supplies enough to meet everyone's need but not everyone's greed.
~ Mahatma Ghandi
The essence of the relationship between humans and the earth is that of a trust, a guardianship, where the future takes priority over the present and past.
~ President Thomas Jefferson
Our relationship with the earth must be like our relationship with one another. . . a ceaseless exercise in respect.
~ Ecologist Aldo Leopold
Our planet is too small to absorb the wastes of profligate societies and too small to permit the wealthy to hide from the poor.
~ Ecologist John Harte
The earth does not belong to man, man belongs to the earth. All things are connected like the blood that unites us all. Man did not weave the web of life, he is but a strand in it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself.
~ Chief Seattle
A modern convergence defines sustainability as requiring that the average welfare of the successor generation. . . be as high or higher than that of the current generation.
~ Stanford University President Emeritus, Donald Kennedy
What is great about a life is doing something that will outlast it.
~ Author Henry James
The frog does not drink up the pond in which he lives.
~ Native American Proverb
Treat the earth well. It was not given to you by your parents. It was loaned to you by your children.
~ Ancient Proverb
The future of everything we have accomplished since our intelligence evolved will depend on the wisdom of our actions over the next few years.
~ Historian and Author Ronald Wright
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