Chris Meledandri Quotes

Taking on corporate greed is an environmental concern.

The environment is more than just nature. The environment is peoples needs.

Only when the last tree has withered, and the last fish caught, and the last river been poisoned, will we realize we cannot eat money.

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

If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen.

Unless we keep this planet healthy, everything else is for naught.

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.

I think the greatest challenge in environmentalism and the most rewarding challenge is trying to figure out how humans can meet their needs while protecting the environment.

The images of Earth's delicate biosphere, contrasting with the sterile moonscape where the astronauts left their footsteps, have become iconic for environmentalists: these may indeed be the Apollo programme's most enduring legacy.

I'm doing it with a rock format and the words are about people living in harmony with Mother Earth. It's very important to me - and I feel it should be for every living human on this planet.

Address these environmental issues and you will address every issue known to man. And we keep dabbling in things that aren't really that important in the long term.

I'm very concerned for the future of the earth and its amazing creatures. We've got to be careful and make sure we don't foul our own nest.

Too often, people think that solving the world's problems is based on conquering the earth, rather than touching the earth, touching ground.

I feel very passionately that we need to take care of the planet and everything on it. Whether it's saving the Amazon or just being kind to those around you, we need to take care of each other and Mother Earth.

The human race should just slow down and think about what it is doing.

This whole idea that we address environmental issues by not doing stuff just doesn't work.

The environmental crisis is all a result of rushing.

If we each take responsibility in shifting our own behavior, we can trigger the type of change that is necessary to achieve sustainability for our race or this planet. We change our planet, our environment, our humanity every day, every year, every decade, and every millennia.

There aren't many things that are universally cool, and it's cool not to litter. I'd never do it.

Everything I do is the environment.

I wanted to help raise awareness, so I created an environmental foundation called Just Within Reach.

All our environmental problems become easier to solve with fewer people and harder - and ultimately impossible to solve - with ever more people.

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

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

Helping people understand the impact of key environmental and human issues worldwide is something that I'm passionate about. CNN's 'Going Green' series of specials are engaging viewers around the world through important messages of conservation and hope.