Education Quotes

"Education that ignores environmental science is incomplete."

"Why should I be studying for a future that will not exist?"

"Education should not be a privilege. It should be a right."

"Ecological training should be the birthright of every child."

"If education relative to the natural world is a hollow exercise, then the basis for sound land conservation is also hollow."

"Good land-use planning is a function of proper education."

"In the end, we will conserve only what we love, we will love only what we understand, and we will understand only what we are taught."

"The most important investment we can make is in education about climate science."

"We must teach the next generation to be guardians of the Earth."

"Democracy requires informed citizenry."

"In the end, we will conserve only what we love, we will love only what we understand, and we will understand only what we are taught."

"You raise the consciousness of the public through activism and education."

"The youth should be prepared to be global citizens."

"Education is the most powerful tool for change."

"Education liberates the mind."

"Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire."

"Education liberates the mind."

"At school, you learn that the planet is dying and everything is falling apart, then they tell you to become an accountant."

"In the end, we will conserve only what we love, we will love only what we understand, and we will understand only what we are taught."

"We must teach our children to love the land before we ask them to protect it."

"All education should lead to an understanding of our interdependence with nature."

"The most serious obstacle to the evolution of a land ethic is the fact that our educational and economic system is headed away from, rather than toward, an intense consciousness of land."

"Recreational development is a job not of building roads into lovely country, but of building receptivity into the still unlovely human mind and heart."

"A land conscience is not instinctive; it must be educated and cultivated."

"Education is the key to unlocking the potential within every individual."

"Every individual possesses talents waiting to be discovered and cultivated."

"The pursuit of knowledge is a lifelong journey without final destination."

"Indigenous culture must be researched and restored."

"Education is decolonization."

"I have learned that we must nurture the seeds of democracy in the hearts and minds of our people."