Paul Watson Quotes

I think its important to speak up for the environment because the Earth is not saying something.

Today, more than ever before, life must be characterized by a sense of Universal responsibility, not only nation to nation and human to human, but also human to other forms of life.

Perseverance is my biggest lesson. When I started to get involved in environmental protection some years ago, my people did not take it seriously and they never considered it important. But today, people look at what I do and they truly recognize those efforts, and eventually they join you as "environmental activists" too!

It would be nice if all that exuberance and abundance was connected to a deep ethos of planetary responsibility.

It's a very important issue to me, trying to wake people up to the fact that we'd better take better care of our planet.

I love a challenge and saving the Planet seems like a good one.

A true conservationist is a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers, but borrowed from his children.

The eco-movement is growing as people all over catch on to the need to protect our precious planet, which makes the future look really bright - and makes me really happy.

I see children, all children, as humanity's most precious resource, because it will be to them that the care of the planet will always be left.

Future generations are not going to ask us what political party were you in. They are going to ask what did you do about it, when you knew the glaciers were melting.

I think it's really important that we understand that we share this world and we're connected to it.

If we each take responsibility in shifting our own behavior, we can trigger the type of change that is necessary to achieve sustainability for our race or this planet. We change our planet, our environment, our humanity every day, every year, every decade, and every millennia.

The only thing that can save us as a species is seeing how we're not thinking about future generations in the way we live.

We have to stop thinking about ourselves so much and start thinking about the environment. We have to change.

There's something missing about how we're informing the youngsters coming along about what matters in the world. We teach them the numbers and the letters, but we fail to communicate the importance of our connection to the living world.

You can only get really unpopular decisions through if the electorate is convinced of the value of the environment. That's what natural history programmes should be for.

This land, this water, this air, this planet - this is our legacy to our young.

I gone on for years about the importance of thinking about the long term in relation to the environmental damage, climate change, and everything else because we don’t want to hand on an increasingly dysfunctional world to our grandchildren and I do not want to be confronted by my future grandchild saying, “Well why didn’t you do something?”

We - the current generation - have a moral responsibility to make the world better for future generations.

Protecting our planet is a moral imperative.

We cannot shirk responsibility from concerns for the welfare of the next generation.

Growing up there was always a sense of 'We have so many gifts and we have to use that for the betterment of the planet.'

Since the early 1990s, I had been very worried about the state of the environment, and by the end of that decade, I realized I needed to do something about it.

Invoking Nature always measures the distance we have yet to travel to achieve real progress on environmental issues.

We must cultivate a universal responsibility toward each other and extend it to the planet that we have to share