Barry Schuler Quotes

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

Through no divine design or cosmic plan, we have inherited the mantle of life's caretaker on the earth, the only home we have ever known.

Our challenge for the future is that we realize we are very much a part of the earth's ecosystem, and we must learn to respect and live according to the basic biological laws of nature.

My focus is not on solving nature's deeper mysteries. It is on using nature's deeper mysteries to solve important societal problems.

Environment is of supreme importance. It is greater than will power.

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.

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.

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

If we do not permit the earth to produce beauty and joy, it will in the end not produce food, either.

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

Genetic design is something we can use to fight the lack of sustainability we humans are forcing on the earth's environment.

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.

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

We seem to think we have some control over this planet.

On Earth Day, we celebrate all the gifts the world and nature make available to us. We recognize our complete dependence on its bounty. And we acknowledge the need for good stewardship to preserve its fruits for future generations.

Sooner or later, we will have to recognise that the Earth has rights, too, to live without pollution. What mankind must know is that human beings cannot live without Mother Earth, but the planet can live without humans.

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

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

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

Unless we connect directly with the earth, we will not have the faintest clue why we should save it…. Only if we understand the beauty of nature will we love it, and only if we become alerted to learn about the planet's disease processes can we decide to live our lives with a proper sense of ecological responsibility.

Ecological policy rejects exploitative forms of economy and the unscrupulous plundering of natural resources and raw materials, as well as the destructive interventions into nature's ability to renew itself. We believe that the exploitation of nature as well as human beings must be stopped if we are to master this acute threat to life on earth.

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