Air Quote by Patti Davis

If our society continues to support basic research on how living organisms function, it is likely that my great grandchildren will be spared the…

— Paul D. Boyer

Would you take a billion dollars, if as part of the deal the Earth were made uninhabitable a year after your death? ... well,…

— John Cleese

I have children, so I'm constantly worrying about the world they are going to inherit.

— Dennis Haysbert

Our population and our use of the finite resources of planet Earth are growing exponentially, along with our technical ability to change the environment…

— Stephen Hawking

Politically it would be terribly repressive to prevent people from having as many children as they want. But something's got to prevent it; and…

— W. S. Merwin

If we drive our fellow species to extinction, we will leave a far more desolate planet for our descendants than the world we inherited…

— James Hansen

No generation before us has faced a decade of choices that will so profoundly impact the course of life on this planet as those…

— Eban Goodstein

We have the potential for making massive change... and the bottom line is that we can't be the generation responsible for wiping out three-fourths…

— Anthony D. Barnosky

We all worry about what will happen to our children after our death. How many of us worry about what will happen to them…

— Sufyan

The very worst impulses of humankind can survive generations, centuries, even millennia. And the best of our individual efforts can die with us at…

— Elizabeth Kostova

We don't, in a sensible world, want to hand on an increasingly dysfunctional world to our grandchildren

— Prince Charles

I think at the prospect of bringing children into the world, your mortality comes very much to the forefront, absolutely.

— Cate Blanchett