Business is recognizing the role it can play in combatting climate change. Thank God, is all I can say, for there is a desperately urgent need for business to play that role. Your lobbying influence can be substantial, but together, united and in large enough numbers it could prove decisive in turning the tide. - Prince Charles ------ Today we have a temporary aberration called “industrial capitalism” which is inadvertently liquidating its two most important sources of capital.. the natural world and properly functioning societies. No sensible capitalist would do that. -Amory Lovins ------ I have to admit that, until recently, I was somewhat wary of the (global) warming debate. I believe it is now our responsibility to take the lead on this issue. -Rupert Murdoch ------------ Whatever befalls the earth, befalls the people of the earth. Man did not weave the web of life; he is merely a strand in it. -Chief Seattle ------------ God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fools. -John Muir------ We all moan and groan about the loss of the quality of life through the destruction of our ecology, and yet each one of us, in our own little comfortable ways, contributes daily to that destruction. It's time now to awaken in each one of us the respect and attention our beloved mother deserves. -Ed Asner ------ If trees could scream, would we be so cavalier about cutting them down? – -Jack Handey ------------ It was not until we saw the picture of the earth, from the moon, that we realized how small and how helpless this planet is - something that we must hold in our arms and care for. Margaret Mead ------ As custodians of the planet it is our responsibility to deal with all species with kindness, love, and compassion. That these animals suffer through human cruelty is beyond understanding. -Richard Gere ------------ We must go through a natural revolution if we are to survive on earth. We need to change people's perceptions. If there's no environment, there's no human race. We are in a state of global denial. -Ted Turner ------------ Shame on us if 100 or 200 years from now our grandchildren or great-grandchildren are living on a planet that has been irreparably damaged by global warming and they ask, "How could those who came before us, who saw this coming, have let this happen?" -Senator Joe Lieberman ------------ Anything else you're interested in is not going to happen if you can't breathe the air and drink the water. Don't sit this one out. Do something. -Carl Sagan ------ What we are doing to the forests of the world is but a mirror reflection of what we are doing to ourselves and to one another. -Mahatma Gandhi ------ Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty. -Albert Einstein ------ When we realize we can make a buck cleaning up the environment, it will be done! -Dennis Weaver ------ The blunt truth about the politics of climate change is that no country will want to sacrifice its economy in order to meet this challenge, but all economies know that the only sensible long term way of developing is to do it on a sustainable basis. -Tony Blair ------ Only after the last tree has been cut down. Only after the last river has been poisoned. Only after the last fish has been caught. Only then will you find that money cannot be eaten. -Cree Indian Prophecy ------ Climate change should be seen as the greatest challenge to face man and treated as a much bigger priority in the United Kingdom. -Prince Charles ------------ Tropical rainforests are home to half of all the living things on our planet. But that home now is being destroyed faster than any other natural community on earth. -Dan Rather ------ At a certain point, I just felt, you know, God is not looking for alms, God is looking for action. -Bono ------ Thank GOD, they cannot cut down the clouds! -Henry David Thoreau ------ We can drift along as though there were still a cold war, wasting hundreds of billions of dollars on weapons that will never be used, ignoring the problems of people in this country and around the world, being one of the worst environmental violators on earth, standing against any sort of viable programs to protect the world's forests or to cut down on acid rain or the global warming or ozone depletion. We can ignore human rights violations in other countries, or we can take these things on as true leaders ought to and accept the inspiring challenge of America for the future. -Jimmy Carter ------ How am I going to live today in order to create the tomorrow I'm committed to? -Anthony Robbins ------------ The best friend of earth of man is the tree. When we use the tree respectfully and economically, we have one of the greatest resources on the earth. -Frank Lloyd Wright ------ Out of all those millions and millions of planets floating around there in space, this is our planet, this is our little one, so we just got to be aware of it and take care of it. -Paul McCartney ------ If we do not begin to relate to the fact that the environment is an ultimate issue and act to preserve our essential ecosystems, we will most certainly lose our evolutionary potential. -Ted Danson ------ Forests are the lungs of our land, purifying the air and giving fresh strength to our people. Franklin D. Roosevelt ------------ I recognize the right and duty of this generation to develop and use our natural resources, but I do not recognize the right to waste them, or to rob by wasteful use, the generations that come after us. -Theodore Roosevelt ------------ In the end, our society will be defined not only by what we create but by what we refuse to destroy. -John Sawhill ------ What does our generation owe to generations yet unborn? …there is an order in the universe which must be respected, and… the human person, endowed with the capability of choosing freely, has a grave responsibility to preserve this order for the well-being of future generations. -Pope John Paull II------ We cannot interfere in one area of the ecosystem without paying due attention both to the consequences of such interference in other areas and to the well being of future generations. -Pope John Paul II ------ Plans to protect air and water, wilderness and wildlife are in fact plans to protect man. -Stewart Udall ------ I often quote an African proverb that says: "The world is not ours, the earth is not ours, It's a treasure we hold in trust for future generations." And I often hope we will be worthy of that trust. -Kofi Annan, Secretary-General of the United Nations, ------ Yes, it is true that no single hurricane can be blamed on global warming...But it is also true that the science is extremely clear now, that warmer oceans make the average hurricane stronger, not only makes the winds stronger, but dramatically increases the moisture from the oceans evaporating into the storm - thus magnifying its destructive power - makes the duration, as well as the intensity of the hurricane, stronger.” -Al Gore------------ “Global warming is no longer a distant threat; it’s as real, as clear and present an issue, with profound effects on people’s lives, as war and peace or recession and poverty--and the effects are only just beginning to be felt….If we do not act now, the crisis of global warming will inflict enormous, even irreversible damage. And it is preventable if we act now, wisely and boldly.” -Al Gore ------ If we do nothing else, save the rain forest… most biologists believe that the rapid destruction of the tropical rain forests and the irretrievable loss of the living species dying along with them, represent the single most serious damage to nature now occurring. -Al Gore