Knowledge Quotes

"Our economic system measures everything except what matters."

"My voice may be young, but the science is not."

"The science is clear. The ball is in our court."

"I believe in the power of facts and the power of science."

"Once you see something, you can't unsee it."

"Knowledge is only powerful if you know what to do with it."

"One of the penalties of an ecological education is that one lives alone in a world of wounds."

"We are not objectively aware of the fact that we, too, are only a part of the biotic community."

"To perceive is not necessarily to understand."

"Conservation provides data on what can be done."

"In our obsession with quantifying everything, we have lost the ability to truly measure what matters."

"Preservation is not about keeping things old; it is about honoring the ancient wisdom in nature."

"To understand the Grand Canyon is to understand the passage of time itself."

"If you do not know how to read the landscape, you cannot understand your home."

"We are the first generation to have the knowledge of how to care for our planet."

"The more you know, the more you are responsible."

"Knowledge is power, but wisdom is enlightenment."

"Culture is the memory of a people."

"Humanism had to be preceded by a knowledge of humanity, by the science of man."

"Knowledge is power."

"Listen to the scientists, they've been warning us for decades."

"The science is clear, the solutions are known."

"You cannot ignore the science forever."

"Knowledge of the natural world is the foundation of all wisdom."

"The evidence from ice cores and atmospheric data is unambiguous."

"We have the knowledge to prevent the worst outcomes."

"One of the penalties of an ecological education is that one lives alone in a world of wounds."

"We grieve only for what we know."

"Our tools have become too sharp for our vision; we can crack the atom but not adjust our ethics to our power."

"The penalty of an ecological education is that you live in a constant state of awareness about the diminishment of the world."