Before Quote by Edward Burtynsky

We wonder, how do you instruct seven billion people as to the relationship to the Earth? Because unless they understand that, and relate the…

— Oren Lyons

The problems to be faced are vast and complex, but come down to this: 6.6 billion people are breeding exponentially. The process of fulfilling…

— Paul Hawken

If we are to use our tools in the service of fitting in on Earth, our basic relationship to nature--even the story we tell…

— Janine Benyus

We need to radically and intelligently reduce human populations to fewer than one billion. We need to eliminate nationalism and tribalism and become Earthlings.…

— Paul Watson

Humans should be the Earth's custodians, not its butchers. Much attention - though not enough - focuses on the existential threat posed by climate…

— Owen Jones

The Earth is a living, breathing entity. Without ongoing care and nurturing, there will be consequences too big to ignore.

— David Holmgren

“Few problems are less recognized, but more important than, the accelerating disappearance of the earth’s biological resources. In pushing other species to extinction, humanity…

— Peter P. Marra

“We, of all the beings that we know of, can think. We can eat, write, build, save. We can predict, estimate, and count. We…

— Tarun Betala

So I think as a biologist I would like us to focus on this planet and finding solutions to sustaining humanity, to improving people's…

— Alice Roberts

You look at the fact that for millions of years species on earth have been developing and we've been knocking them off at like…

— Jon Fishman

We are all together in this, we are all together in this single living ecosystem called planet earth. As we learn how we fit…

— Sylvia Earle

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

— Julius Sterling Morton