Save Our Planet Quotes

• Forests are the lungs of our land.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Land, Earth Day, Tree

  Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1938). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1935, Volume 4”, p.65, Best Books on

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• The issue of climate change is one that we ignore at our own peril

  Barack Obama

  Issues, Climate, Peril

  Barack Obama (2009). “Barack Obama: Speeches on the Road to the White House”

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• There's so much pollution in the air now that if it weren't for our lungs there'd be no place to put it all.

  Robert Orben

  Fun, Air, Earth Day

  "Waiting to Inhale: Don't Take a Breath Without the Report From Our Air Pollution Control District". The San Diego Union-Tribune, January 31, 2008.

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• I feel more confident than ever that the power to save the planet rests with the individual consumer.

  Denis Hayes

  Environmental, Economy, Individual

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• Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them.

  Bill Vaughan

  Fun, Home, Names

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• We simply must do everything we can in our power to slow down global warming before it is too late. We can save our planet and also boost our economy at the same time.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Energy, Too Late, Global Warming

  "Schwarzenegger Backs Global Warming Bill". The Associated Press, www.denverpost.com. September 27, 2006.

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• Our children may save us if they are taught to care properly for the planet; but if not, it may be back to the Ice Age or the caves from where we first emerged. Then we'll have to view the universe above from a cold, dark place. No more jet skis, nuclear weapons, plastic crap, broken pay phones, drugs, cars, waffle irons, or television. Come to think of it, that might not be a bad idea.

  Jimmy Buffett

  Children, Dark, Thinking

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• Saving our planet, lifting people out of poverty, advancing economic growth – these are one and the same fight.

  Ban Ki-moon

  Fighting, People, Growth

  "To End Poverty, Act on Climate" by Kathy Calvin, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 15, 2014.

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• Unless we free ourselves from a dependence on these fossil fuels... we are condemning future generations to global catastrophe

  Barack Obama

  Generations, Fuel, Fossils

  Barack Obama (2009). “Barack Obama: Speeches on the Road to the White House”

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• What we can be scientifically certain of is that our continued use of fossil fuels is pushing us to a point of no return

  Barack Obama

  Use, Fuel, Fossils

  Barack Obama (2009). “Barack Obama: Speeches on the Road to the White House”

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• It's clearly a crisis of two things: of consciousness and conditioning. We have the technological power, the engineering skills to save our planet, to cure disease, to feed the hungry, to end war; But we lack the intellectual vision, the ability to change our minds. We must decondition ourselves from 10,000 years of bad behavior. And, it's not easy.

  Terence McKenna

  War, Engineering, Years

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• If there's reason for hope, it lies in man's occasional binges of cooperation. To save our planet, we'll need that kind of heroic effort, in which all types of people join forces for the common good

  George Meyer

  Lying, Future, Men

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• But to truly transform our economy, protect our security, and save our planet from the ravages of climate change, we need to ultimately make clean, renewable energy the profitable kind of energy. So I ask this Congress to send me legislation that places a market-based cap on carbon pollution and drives the production of more renewable energy in America.

  Barack Obama

  Business, America, Climate

  First Speech to a Joint Session of Congress, delivered 24 February 2009

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• 'Being green' is commendable, but I hope that people don't take too much pride and self-adoration because they shut off the water when they brushed their teeth. The truth of the matter is, conservation alone will do little to save our planet.

  Naveen Jain

  Pride, Self, People

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• Scientists tell us that we have enough technology to save our planet. . . . Yet we don't take advantage of this new technology. . . . The technological has to work hand-in-hand with the spiritual. Our spiritual life is the element that can bring about the energies of peace, calm, brotherhood, understanding, and compassion. Without that, our planet doesn't stand a chance.

  Nhat Hanh

  Spiritual, Technology, Compassion

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2008). “The World We Have: A Buddhist Approach to Peace and Ecology: Easyread Large Bold Edition”, p.51, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• We know that when push comes to shove, [we can] drive ourselves to save our planet.

  Jeff Corwin

  Planets, Our Planet, Knows

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• I have this vision that I'm really watching each one of my daughters start to become women, and mothers. And this is what's gonna save our planet.

  Giancarlo Esposito

  Daughter, Mother, Vision

  Source: seevanessacraft.com

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• If we want to save our planet earth, we have a duty to put an end to the capitalist system.

  Evo Morales

  Earth, Want, Ends

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• Never have the nations of the world had so much to lose, or so much to gain. Together we shall save our planet, or together we shall perish in its flames.

  John F. Kennedy

  Teamwork, Peace, Flames

  Address to the United Nations General Assembly, delivered 25 September 1961

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• To be sure, governments will remain critical to any comprehensive effort to save our planet.

  Lawrence Bender

  Government, Effort, Planets

  "America’s Young Minds: A Neglected Renewable Resource" by Lawrence Bender, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 14, 2012.

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• When we have peace, then we have a chance to save the planet. But if we are not united in peace, if we do not practice mindful consumption, we cannot save our planet.

  Nhat Hanh

  Practice, Chance, Planets

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• I think the most important thing people can do to save our planet and the human race is to empower women!

  Robert Ballard

  Thinking, Race, People

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