Jaime Harrison Quotes

We need to think of the future and the planet we are going to leave to our children and their children.

I can't think of anything more important than the environment we leave to our children and our children's children.

We owe it to ourselves and to the next generation to conserve the environment so that we can bequeath our children a sustainable world that benefits all.

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

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.

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 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 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.

When I think about my legacy, I think about the world that we leave behind for our children.

When we look as a society, we've really lost the connection between our actions and the future.

We all have an obligation to pass on a better environment to our kids.

It is an old cliche to say that the future is in the hands of the young. This is no longer true. The quality of life to be enjoyed or the existence to be survived by our children and future generations is in our hands now.

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?'

I haven't inherited the earth from my parents, I am borrowing it from my children.

Ask any parent what we want for our children, and invariably we say 'a better life.' To that end, we give our time, our sleep, our money, and our dreams, much as our parents did before us. We all want a better life for our children. But what we want for them ceases to matter if we leave them an unlivable world.

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.

I think it's important to watch out for our environment and to be careful.

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

We owe at least this much to future generations, from whom we have borrowed a fragile planet called Earth.

I am working hard to provide solutions to meet a most pressing goal: preserving our way of life for our kids and grandkids.

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.

We are borrowing money from future generations. We are borrowing the carbon impact, the resource impact from future generations to get stuff cheap now. We have swept the dirt and dust from our society under the carpet - but this carpet is on other side of the planet.

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

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.

What we owe future generations is the subject of growing debate by economists, philosophers, ethicists, public policymakers, and academics of all stripes. But for me as a mother, the moral implications are very clear. We owe them clean air and fresh water, a healthy planet and a secure future.