Important Quotes

"When I looked at the Earth itself... I started to wonder why I was here, what's my purpose here… it sort of dawned me," he said. "And my perspective is that God has given mankind a stage on which to perform. How the play turns out, is up to us." -- Jim Lovell, Apollo 8 astronaut

"Facts are stubborn things" -- President John Adams

"Everyone is entitled to his own opinions, but not his own facts" --Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan

"Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free" -- The Bible, John 8:32

"In every deliberation we must consider the impact on the seventh generation"-- The Great Binding Law of the Iroquois Native Americans

"We are on the verge of some environmental and climate disasters, which could demonstrate humans' capacity for greatness or lead to our demise". -- con't

"It is up to citizens and organizations... to advocate political solutions or at least to identify principles and goals. If we set the agenda and build support for it, the politicians will want to join the parade" -- Jacques Cousteau

"Denial ain't just a river in Egypt" -- Mark Twain

"We have everything we need to begin solving the crisis, with the possible exception of the will to act. But in America, our will to take action is itself a renewable resource". ---- Al Gore

16 quotes from world leaders on the Paris Climate Agreement

Twelve great quotes on the need to take climate action from climate action reserve

"It is easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism". -- Frederic Jameson

"There is no planet B" -- John Kerry

"Climate change is happening, humans are causing it, and I think this is the most serious environmental issue facing us" -- Bill Nye

"In reality, climate change is the biggest thing that is going on every single day" -- Bill McKibben

"For someone with a background in economic justice, what scared me about climate change is not just that sea level will rise and we'll have more storms - it's how this mixes with that cocktail of inequality and racism" -- Naomi Klein

"Climate change does not respect border, it does not respect who you are - rich and poor, small and big, therefore, this is what we call 'global challenges' which require global solidarity--Ban Ki-Moon

"The evidence for human-made climate change is overwhelming" -- James Hansen

"God writes the gospel not in the Bible alone, but also on trees, and in the flowers, clouds and stars". ----Martin Luther

"We cannot be all that God wants us to be without caring for the earth" -- Rick Warren

"To drive to extinction what He has created is wrong. He has a purpose for everything... We Christians have a responsibility to take the lead in caring for the earth". ---Billy Graham

"The growing possibility of our destroying ourselves and the world with our own neglect and excess is tragic and very real". --- Billy Graham

" I love to think of nature as an unlimited broadcasting station through which God speaks to us every hour, If we will only tune in". --- George Washington Carver

"A wrong attitude toward nature implies, somewhere, a wrong attitude toward God". --T.S. Elliot

"All that I have ever seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all that I have not seen". --Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Let everyone regard himself as the steward of God in all things which he possesses. Then he will neither conduct himself dissolutely, nor corrupt by abuse those things that God requires to be preserved". --- John Calvin

The world is too much with us; late and soon,

getting and spending we lay waste our powers ;

Little we see in nature that is ours --- William Wordsworth