“There's a lot of life on the planet that needs love, wants love, deserves love, in whatever capacity we are able.” WantNeedsAblePlanetsDeserveCapacityNeed LoveDeserve Love Author:Bellamy Young
“Electrify your life! With heating and cooling, cooking and travel, and you will be doing a lot to help the future of this planet. There is no need to burn anything anymore.” NeedsHelpingPlanetsCookingHeatingCooling Author:Mark Ruffalo
“Our biggest challenges for the ocean and for the planet are problems of perception. People need to understand that species extinctions, habitat destruction, ocean acidification, and pollution are all chipping away at the resilience of the thin layer of life that sustains us on Spaceship Earth.” PeopleNeedsProblemEarthChallengesPlanetsOceanPerceptionDestructionSpeciesResilienceLayersPollutionExtinctionSpaceshipsHabitatChipping AwaySpecies ExtinctionOcean Acidification Author:Edith Widder
“To survive, humans need food, water, and air. Yet biodiversity, the Earth's bodies of water, and the planet's atmosphere are all under threat.” NeedsHumansBodyEarthWaterAirPlanetsThreatAtmosphereBiodiversityBodies Of Water Author:Graciela Chichilnisky
“I've always been an environmentalist, but my life changed the day I had children. I realized that I wasn't doing enough to protect the planet. People need nature, and of course I want my children to have the best possible opportunity in life. I also realized how important it was for me to raise them to be conscientious people that are aware of their impact on the earth.” PeopleWantNeedsChildrenImportantEnoughEarthCoursesOpportunityChangedPlanetsProtectRaisesImpactI RealizedMy ChildrenLife ChangingEnvironmentalist Author:Julia Roberts
“America's a great country - you better believe it's a great country, one of the greatest on this planet - but even the greatest needs to pay attention. I wish the powerful sources that run this country could understand that.” NeedsBelieveCountryRunningAmericaWishPowerfulPayAttentionPlanetsSourcePay AttentionGreat Country Author:Tommie Smith
“Even if we planted a tree on every square yard available in the planet by the end of the century we would only capture at most 10 percent of the CO2 we need to reduce. This does not mean that we should not plant trees; we should, for biodiversity's sake, and for our long-term future together with the other species.” IfsNeedsShouldMeanLongDoeEndsTogetherTermTreeCenturyPlanetsPercentPlantSpeciesSakeAvailableLong TermCaptureSquaresYardsBiodiversityPlant A TreeCo2Futures Together Author:Graciela Chichilnisky
“I think we need to feel, to come together, to look at our differences as a benefit to who we are as people on the same planet.” PeopleThinkingNeedsFeelsLooksTogetherDifferencesPlanetsBenefitsWho We Are Author:Milo Ventimiglia
“What has dawned on me is that focusing on the "finite planet" frame sends a message that we have gone as far as Nature can take us and therefore we need to give power to forces outside Nature.” NeedsGivingForceGonePlanetsMessagesFinite Author:Frances Moore Lappé
“If everybody on the planet today had the same standard of living as the average European or American, we would need three new planets. But we don't even have one new planet. We have this one, and with the way we're polluting it, the shrinking water resources, the climate change, the experimentation with plants... the outlook is grim.” IfsWayNeedsTodayThreeWaterPlanetsStandardsResourcesPlantClimateClimate ChangeAverageOutlookGrimExperimentationStandards Of LivingShrinkingWater Resources Author:Jane Goodall
“The Pleiadians see a huge upswing in the drama on the planet and in individual lives. The drama is not a bad thing. It's just simply getting our attention to that which we need to take care of and notice all that we're still holding onto within ourselves. It's just to act as a mirror.” NeedsStillsCareIndividualAttentionPlanetsHugeDramaMirrorsTake CareBad ThingsHolding OnIndividual Life Author:Christine McCormick Day
“The best thing that we can do on climate change is make sure that China converts to a more nuclear future to limit those - that one coal-burning plant coming on a week that we expect - that would really help the planet. We need to work cooperatively with developing countries to make sure they emit less.” NeedsCountryHelpingCan DoWeekPlanetsLimitsPlantClimateClimate ChangeChinaNuclearBurningDevelopingBest ThingsCoalDeveloping Countries Author:Mark Kirk
“I think we need to think of lots of ways to communicate. And we tried some at 350. We organised what they called the largest art project in the planet's history. We do a lot with art and music and things.” ThinkingWayNeedsArtPlanetsProjectsCommunicateOrganisedArt And MusicArt Projects Author:Bill McKibben
“I believe a great company, whether improving a sector or creating a new one, needs to have an excellent product or service at its core; needs strong management to execute the plan and a good brand to give it the edge over its competitors. Providing quality service, combined with value for money and in an innovative way ensures you offer real value - and finally to be responsible to society and the planet.” WayNeedsGivingBelieveRealValuesStrongI BelieveQualityCompanyPlansPlanetsProductsOffersCreatingResponsibleManagementEdgesCoreBrandsExcellentOver ItProvidingImprovingCompetitorsInnovativeBeing ResponsibleStrong ManReal ValueGreat CompanyQuality Service Author:Richard Branson
“It's almost unbelievable where we are as a planet because people have been so afraid of rocking the boat, of putting forth what they really believe, and standing with people who need to be stood with.” PeopleNeedsBelieveHas BeensPlanetsStandingBoatUnbelievableRocking The Boat Author:Alice Walker
“The aggressive incoherence of our common surroundings can be described as entropy made visible. The way we have disposed things on the landscape leads us in the direction of disorder and death. They are categorically evil. These dispositions are destroying our only home-planet and other organisms that share it. They defeat our need to care about where we are and the things in place there. They prompt us to feel that civilization is not worth carrying on. They rob us of our identity and our will to live. These things are not about personal taste or style.” WayNeedsFeelsMadeHomeCareEvilCommonShareStyleIdentityPlanetsCivilizationTasteDefeatLandscapeVisibleDisorderAggressiveDestroyingOrganismsDispositionSurroundingsPromptsEntropyCarrying OnWill To LiveIncoherencePersonal Taste Author:James Howard Kunstler
“There are 7 billion people on the planet. Pretty much everyone is doing sex. It's not like you need to order the "baby-starter kit" on Amazon. Instincts will come to you at the weirdest places and times.” PeopleNeedsOrderSexPlanetsLike YouBabyInstinctBillionsAmazonStartersPlace And Time Author:Ryan Reynolds
“I think the point of America, our planet, the reason we're all here, one of the best things that we can do is be concerned about something even when it doesn't concern us. That's the whole point. The fact that I've never had to use a Planned Parenthood, the fact that I've never been in need of medical services I couldn't afford or didn't have access to, doesn't mean I shouldn't be concerned about the fact that other women don't have that access.” ThinkingNeedsMeanReasonWholeFactsUseAmericaCan DoPlanetsConcernConcernedAccessMedicalBest ThingsParenthoodOur PlanetPlanned Parenthood Author:Shonda Rhimes
“If I think back to every rehearsal process for every play I've ever worked on, there's just so much crying at home. I barely sleep. There are moments of deep despair and anxiety, and then there are moments in rehearsal that are the most exhilarating; feeling seen and seeing everybody. Feeling like you have a purpose on the planet. A huge part of the process I enjoy is watching the actors figuring out what they can handle and what they can take and what they need from the director and me.” IfsThinkingNeedsPlayMomentsFeelingsHomePurposeActorsProcessEnjoySleepSeeingCryPlanetsHugeLike YouDirectorsDespairAnxietyHandleRehearsalExhilaratingExhilarating Feeling Author:Annie Baker
“I feel that one of the roles of the artist, in the way I define it, is that I need to be not just someone observing these tiny pockets of people on the planet who have devoted their lives to preserving whatever it is they're passionate about. I want to be them. I am one of them. I just have a different outlet and final outcome as an artist than many of them would. For them, the process can just end in holding on to it, just knowing they've got it tucked away in their private collection. I value that so much, but I feel the conversation dies in a way there.” PeopleWayWantNeedsFeelsDifferentEndsArtistValuesDiesProcessRolesKnowingPlanetsConversationFinalsPassionateTinyOutcomesCollectionsPocketsDevotedObservingOutletsHolding On Author:Dario Robleto
“Business practices and how we treat the planet are also in desperate need of re-humanization.” NeedsPracticePlanetsTreatsDesperate Author:Simon Mainwaring
“To me, the human move to take responsibility for the living Earth is laughable - the rhetoric of the powerless. The planet takes care of us, not we of it. Our self-inflated moral imperative to guide a wayward Earth, or heal our sick planet, is evidence of our immense capacity for self delusion. Rather, we need to protect ourselves from ourselves.” NeedsHumansSelfCareEarthMovingResponsibilityMoralPlanetsProtectEvidenceCapacitySickTake CareGuidesHealDelusionImmenseRhetoricPowerlessTaking ResponsibilityImperativesSelf DelusionLaughable Author:Lynn Margulis
“Women of this planet need some essential resources: wells, seeds and roads. That is primarily all we have ever needed. Added to that, women need righteous and strong men who will help us to use our most cherished gifts: the ability to multitask and problem solve.” MenNeedsWellsHelpingUseProblemStrongAbilityPlanetsNeededEssentialsResourcesSolveSeedsRighteousStrong Man Author:Roseanne Barr
“So often we talk about saving the planet, but what we really mean is to save the planet the way it is, so we can live here. So that is can sustain us. Because the planet doesn't need to be saved. It doesn't care if all the squirrels, elephants, and trees die and there's just a couple of amoebas floating around at the poles.” IfsWayNeedsMeanCareDiesTreePlanetsCoupleSavedSavingElephantsFloatingReally MeanSquirrelsSave The Planet Author:Dave Matthews