Dalai Lama Quotes

I don't think the planet can survive people. It's not the other way around. I don't think the planet can survive.

It's a war, I think, to save the planet, really, from ourselves.

The human race's prospects of survival were considerably better when we were defenseless against tigers than they are today when we have become defenseless against ourselves.

If we don't blow ourselves up, this is going to be a really wonderful world.

Ignorance, hatred and greed are killing nature.

As barbaric is we are, it's a miracle we haven't blown ourselves off the face of the earth so far.

Even with the best intentions, you can have a nuclear war, a nuclear holocaust, through miscalculation, through accidents.

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.

We all wish to live. We all seek a world in which men are freed of the burdens of ignorance, poverty, hunger and disease. And we shall all be hard-pressed to escape the deadly rain of nuclear fall-out should catastrophe overtake us.

I wouldn't want anyone to destroy the earth.

We are a plague on the Earth.

Nuclear war is such an emotional subject that many people see the weapons themselves as the common enemy of humanity.

I don't think the world will destroy itself in a nuclear cataclysm. On the contrary, we have the capacity to save ourselves and save the planet, and we will use it.

Man's war against nature is a war against himself.

No-one wants polluted air, water or land, denuded forests or extinct animal species. But the error most people make is to trust the legislature to prevent these tragedies. What they don’t realize is how big a role the legislature has played historically in causing environmental destruction.

True conservation means protecting the entire habitat.

Walking in the mountains helps me unwind, but it also reminds me in a painful way that the real beauty in life is nature and animals, and that the human race, in all its arrogance, is intent on destroying it.

Only people who lack wisdom would say that a project should be pursued even if it leads to wanton destruction of forests.

It is imperative for us to protect the flora and fauna around us.

The planet isn't going anywhere. We are.

Here we are, the most clever species ever to have lived. So how is it we can destroy the only planet we have?

Facts have proved that prosperity at the expense of the environment is only delaying disaster. We cannot passively protect our environment by simply stopping economic development.

Earth Day is the first holy day which transcends all national borders, yet preserves all geographical integrities, spans mountains and oceans and time belts, and yet brings people all over the world into one resonating accord, is devoted to the preservation of the harmony in nature and yet draws upon the triumphs of technology, the measurement of time, and instantaneous communication through space.

Our generation was supposed to be about trying to deal with nuclear concerns and environmental disasters.

If we are not sensible about this, in our ideas of wealth creation we may completely destroy the planet - which we are already doing in many ways.