Lynette Fromme Quotes

We can't continue to take from our planet the way we do and not give anything back, and the idea of, 'Oh, but it's fine, I won't have to deal with it in my lifetime,' well, you need to think about the future generations who will have to deal with it.

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

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.

If future generations are to remember us more with gratitude than sorrow, we must achieve more than just the miracles of technology. We must also leave them a glimpse of the world as it was created, not just as it looked when we got through with it.

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

The truth is, natural organisms have managed to do everything we want to do without guzzling fossil fuels, polluting the planet or mortgaging the future.

For how many people do you think might yet stand on this planet before the sun grows cold? That's the responsibility we hold in our hands.

I think my message to the politicians who have within their power the ability to make change is, 'Do you really, really not care about the future of your great-grandchildren? Because if we let the world continue to be destroyed the way we are now, what's the world going to be like for your great-grandchildren?'

Instead of passing on choppy waters to the next generation, we should endeavor to leave them a calmer sea.

If the world is presented as resources to be exploited, then, more than likely, you're going to exploit the world.

Each generation takes the earth as trustees. We ought to bequeath to posterity as many forests and orchards as we have exhausted and consumed.

I think it's important to be kind to the world before it disappears if we don't take care of it.

We're busily wrecking the chances for future generations at a rapid rate of knots by not recognizing the damage we're doing to the natural environment, bearing in mind that this is the only planet that we know has any life on it.

If we do not own the freshness of the air and the sparkle of the water, how can you buy them?

It is not oil or the environment, it is oil and the environment. We are living in the same world. We are not enemies.

The destruction of our environment and resources cannot be stemmed unless the growth of the world's population is stemmed and ultimately reduced.

We owe it to each other - and to our children and grandchildren - to leave our planet in a better state than when we found it.

What we are doing to the future of our children, and the other species on the planet, is a clear moral issue.

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.

Nature will take precedence over the needs of the modern man.

You can print money to bail out a bank, but you can't print life to bail out a planet.

Natural resources are so vast that no single individual or business is going to protect them; they don't have an incentive to.

In the long term the economy and the environment are the same thing. If it is unenvironmental it is uneconomical. That is a rule of nature.

The oldest task in human history: to live on a piece of land without spoiling it..

How much longer, for instance, can we continue to crowd more and more people into this world? …. How long can we permit the uncontrolled use of the earth's resources when there is no possibility of replacing them? Indeed, how long will it be before we have completely used up everything our lives depend on? These issues are the politics of the future. Neither Republicans nor Democrats have begun to spell out in substantive fashion the means by which we can control population growth, environmental problems, and the conservation of our natural resources.