Jay Weatherill Quotes

Finally, the ecological health of the Mississippi River and its economic importance to the many people that make their living or seek their recreation is based on a healthy river system.

I believe in the protection of the environment that supports us all.

Now, more than ever, we need nature as a balancing agent.

I take a biocentric point of view. I look at things from the point of view of the Earth and the laws of ecology. As opposed to the anthropocentric point of view, where everything revolves around humanity.

We depend on nature to survive... it is our responsibility also to take care of our home, planet Earth.

Our health depends on the health of the environment in which we live.

Nature nurtures our souls and lifts our spirits. But it also sustains us and our economy - and it is for this reason that we take it for granted at our peril.

I want to work on environmental issues.

The most important thing is to preserve the world we live in. Unless people understand and learn about our world, habitats, and animals, they won't understand that if we don't protect those habitats, we'll eventually destroy ourselves.

We are running ourselves into a damaged earth. But I am optimistic. I believe that we can change; we must change. As a human race, we are very young and quite primitive. The sooner we learn the greatness of humanity the better off we will all be.

We won't have a society if we destroy the environment.

But overall, Obama's record on the environment has been uninspired - and that's putting it kindly. He hasn't stopped coal companies from blowing up mountaintops and devastating large regions of Appalachia.

I wish my artwork could persuade millions of people to join a global conversation about sustainability.

If we intend to provide a better life, and a better world, for future generations, we can't ignore the quality of the environment we leave them.

I do see a lot of the hard end of ecology, and my feeling is that we live on a super-exciting planet but a super-fragile one.

Environmental disaster is the gravest threat to China's continued development. That's according to me, but it is not some wacko view.

So many times I've photographed stories that show the degradation of the planet. I had one idea to go and photograph the factories that were polluting, and to see all the deposits of garbage. But, in the end, I thought the only way to give us an incentive, to bring hope, is to show the pictures of the pristine planet - to see the innocence.

I really have a deep sense of caring about the air that we breathe and the water that we drink. I want to be able to say that I was trying to protect that. And I also care deeply about children. My children, all children. And I care deeply about giving back.

My efforts in Congress are guided by the belief that environmental preservation and restoration are a critical part of the legacy we leave to future generations.

Unless we practice conservation, those who come after us will have to pay the price of misery, degradation, and failure for the progress and prosperity of our day.

I wanted to help raise awareness, so I created an environmental foundation called Just Within Reach.

I always get involved with the environment because once you go past the tipping point with the environment, you don't get it back.

If you look at the state of our planet, the next generations won't be around if we consider sustainability as a gimmick.

Sooner or later we've got to tie the saving of the natural world to our own public welfare.

Business is a subset of the environment, not the other way around. You can't have a healthy economy, you can't have a healthy anything in a degraded environment.