Quotes about Planet

When it comes to the care of our common home, we are living at a critical moment of history.

I see children, all children, as humanity's most precious resource, because it will be to them that the care of the planet will always be left.

Our future on this planet, exposed as it is to nuclear annihilation, depends one one single factor: humanity must make a moral about-face.

The only power you have on this planet is the power of your decisions.

Well, capitalism is a big problem, because with capitalism you're just going to keep buying and selling things until there's nothing else to buy and sell, which means gobbling up the planet.

I think we need to take responsibility for the things we put on this planet, and also take responsibility for the things we take off the planet. We need to have limiters on how far we allow ourselves to go - ethical, moral limiters.

Just as the earth is a planet in its own right, so each of us is an individual in our own sphere of habitation. We are individuals, but we live in families and communities where order provides a system of harmony that hinges on obedience to principles.

Time is exactly what we do not have. What decreases in a culture of affluence is precisely and strangely time—along with wisdom and friendship. These are the very things that the human heart was created for, that the human heart feeds on and lives for. No wonder we are producing so many depressed, unhealthy and even violent people, while also leaving a huge carbon footprint on this poor planet.

As an elder of the Americas and of the rest of the planet, it is my responsibility to care for and protect, to the best of my ability, the young.

Food is medicine. Food is the most powerful drug on the planet.

We live at a moment when our relationships to each other, and to all other beings with whom we share this planet, are up for grabs.

Though every human being on the planet has an inclination for leadership, most of us do not have the courage to cultivate it.