Ashleigh Brilliant Quotes

The task for us now, if we are to survive, is to build the earth.

Saving the world happens one person at a time. Be at the front of the queue. Each one of us has to work hard to achieve our collective dream for a healthier planet.

We can conserve energy and tread more lightly on the Earth while we expand our culture's capacity for joy.

We need to figure out how to have the things we love, and not destroy the world.

Earth Day is the first holy day...and is devoted to the harmony of nature... The celebration offends no historical calendar, yet it transcends them all.

Folks who are alive today need to wake up and do what they can to stop abusing the planet, and find ways to preserve the web of life. That's where the soul is headed. It is time for us to become wounded healers.

Everybody wants to save the Earth; nobody wants to help Mom do the dishes.

We have lived our lives by the assumption that what was good for us would be good for the world. We have been wrong. We must change our lives so that it will be possible to live by the contrary assumption, that what is good for the world will be good for us. And that requires that we make the effort to know the world and learn what is good for it.

We save the world by being alive ourselves.

How can you save the world you have not seen if you can't save the community you have seen?

I don't need to make money destroying my environment. Why don't I just love it and figure out a way to be more sustainable?

The single greatest lesson the garden teaches is that our relationship to the planet need not be zero-sum, and that as long as the sun still shines and people still can plan and plant, think and do, we can, if we bother to try, find ways to provide for ourselves without diminishing the world.

Peace is your priority, not saving the world. That follows that.

Humanity as a species must change dramatically and radically or our survival is at stake.

On a certain day, month and year one should observe the ceremony of tree-planting. Thus, one fulfils one's responsibilities, serves one's fellow-beings which not only brings happiness but benefits all.

If we are to survive on this planet, there must be compromises.

A second key area where you are called to make a contribution is in showing concern for the environment. This is not only because this country, more than many others, is likely to be seriously affected by climate change. You are called to care for Creation not only as responsible citizens, but also as followers of Christ!

For us, every day is Earth Day. It's like with Women's Day recently, I said, "Every day is women's day - we're women!" It's something that we sort of take for granted.

We cannot hope to create a sustainable culture with any but sustainable souls.

This planet can be a paradise in the 22nd century.

I still think we are smart enough to not destroy planet Earth, our only home.

If we want to save the world, we must have a plan. But no plan will work unless we meditate.

We've got to somehow stabilize our connection to nature so that in 50 years from now, 500 years, 5,000 years from now there will still be a wild system and respect for what it takes to sustain us.

On the last day of the world I would want to plant a tree

We don't have to be that greedy generation that just continued to take down the underpinnings of what makes the planet work in our favor.