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Humans merely share the earth. We can only protect the land, not own it.

— Chief Seattle

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

There is something basic about protecting land by taking it off the market. People should be able to enjoy where they live while at the same time protect the plants and animals around them.

— Tom Hanks

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

Protecting our land, our air and our water is a very important thing that we can only do together.

— Martin O'Malley

We have a moral responsibility to protect the earth and ensure that our children and grandchildren have a healthy and sustainable environment in which to live.

— Jim Clyburn

Let sovereignty be granted us over a portion of the earth's surface large enough to satisfy our rightful requirements as a nation. The rest we shall manage for ourselves.

— Theodor Herzl

No power on earth has a right to take our property from us without our consent.

— John Jay

We strongly feel we have to protect everything.

— Mike Thompson

✗Opposing Perspectives

The earth and its resources belong of right to its people.

— Gifford Pinchot

This Earth is our only home. Together, we must protect and cherish it.

— Ban Ki-moon

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