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We are too quickly losing important landscapes in this country to development - and I worry that if we do not act to protect them now, future generations will grow up in a profoundly different world.

— Louis Bacon

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

Hopefully, generations after us will continue to protect, preserve, and look after this wonderful land.

— Wilford Brimley

We've got to step up our conservation efforts before it's too late. We're not protecting our lands and natural resources. Take the Grand Canyon for example; I'm sure that at one time it was a beautiful piece of land, and just look at the way we've let it go.

— Pat Paulsen

I'd like to think that the actions we take today will allow others in the future to discover the wonders of landscapes we helped protect but never had the chance to enjoy ourselves.

— Annie Leibovitz

If we intend to provide a better life, and a better world, for future generations, we can't ignore the quality of the environment we leave them.

— John Kasich

I think its time to change and balance the environment and growth. If we don't do that, we're going to suffer a hard landing one day very soon.

— Ma Jun

We need to promote development that does not destroy our environment.

— Wangari Maathai

We have a moral responsibility to save wild places like the arctic refuge for future generations, and that is why our country has remained committed to its protection for nearly 50 years.

— Lois Capps

Your future is still before you. Your land is a vast storehouse of mineral and agricultural wealth awaiting further development for the benefit of mankind. It potentialities are magnificent.

— Charles E. Wilson

The more we can grow on already cultivated land, the better.

— Nina Fedoroff

✗Opposing Perspectives

In time, we will have to recognise that it is not 'nature' that we need to protect, but ourselves, and we can only do this by abandoning the old, grandiose, profit-seeking schemes so beloved of our masters and learning to till the soil, live to scale, and live within our means.

— John Burnside