Guy Laliberte Quotes

I really wonder what gives us the right to wreck this poor planet of ours.

For how many people do you think might yet stand on this planet before the sun grows cold? That's the responsibility we hold in our hands.

The planet will survive. Whether we get to be here and enjoy it, or enjoy life as we've known it, is what's questionable.

We're not environmentally doing very good things to this planet, and we might not be around too long.

We shouldn't be saying 'Save the planet'; we should be saying: 'Save viable conditions in which people can live.' That's what we're dealing with here.

Humanity is consuming the resources of the earth and life in an excessive and disordered way, forgetting the earth's own needs

Planet Earth is far more resilient than humans and will certainly outlive us.

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

My main issue is sustainability of the Earth, and protection of those animals and people who dwell here.

It was once religion which told us that we are all sinners because of original sin. It is now the ecology of our planet which pronounces us all to be sinners because of the excessive exploits of human inventiveness.

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

Whether we and our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.

Because we're not in harmony with the environment, we're destroying the environment that supports us.

We see an entire planet which has many limitations.

If the world is presented as resources to be exploited, then, more than likely, you're going to exploit the world.

I think it's important to be kind to the world before it disappears if we don't take care of it.

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.

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.

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

It is not oil or the environment, it is oil and the environment. We are living in the same world. We are not enemies.

Over the long haul of life on this planet, it is the ecologists, and not the bookkeepers of business, who are the ultimate accountants.

The destruction of our environment and resources cannot be stemmed unless the growth of the world's population is stemmed and ultimately reduced.

We are going to inherit the earth; there is not the slightest doubt about that.

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.

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