Philip Emeagwali Quotes

Nature has provided us a spectacular toolbox. The toolbox exists. An architect far better and smarter than us has given us that toolbox, and we now have the ability to use it.

Not all is doom and gloom. We are beginning to understand the natural world and are gaining a reverence for life - all life.

People must feel that the natural world is important and valuable and beautiful and wonderful and an amazement and a pleasure.

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

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.

All I want to do is to present the abundance of life on Earth.

I see a future in which nature gives us a helping hand. Instead of destroying the natural world, why can't we use it to solve the kinds of problems that we are facing?

We are now heading down a centuries-long path toward increasing the productivity of our natural capital - the resource systems upon which we depend to live - instead of our human capital.

I never lose an opportunity to speak about my obsession: humankind and the environment.

The environment, what surrounds you, is so alive and delightful and complex.

I am a conservationist. It is in my DNA.

Natures' curriculum cannot be changed.

The further human society drifts away from nature, the less we understand interdependence.

I don't flatter myself - I'm not a scientist, I'm not a conservation expert.

If we pollute the air, water and soil that keep us alive and well, and destroy the biodiversity that allows natural systems to function, no amount of money will save us.

World-wide practice of Conservation and the fair and continued access by all nations to the resources they need are the two indispensable foundations of continuous plenty and of permanent peace.

We have the world to live in on the condition that we will take good care of it. And to take good care of it, we have to know it. And to know it and to be willing to take care of it, we have to love it.

The reason that I keep writing is that all my most powerful messages about the fates of wild places that I care about need to have words as well as images.

So often we talk about saving the planet, but what we really mean is to save the planet the way it is, so we can live here. So that is can sustain us. Because the planet doesn't need to be saved. It doesn't care if all the squirrels, elephants, and trees die and there's just a couple of amoebas floating around at the poles.

If people think nature is their friend, then they sure don't need an enemy.

Right now, we don't have a very good relation with creation.

A healthy environment is essential to a livable Oregon and a strong economy.

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.

I work with nature, although in completely new terms.

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.