Dalai Lama Quotes About Environment

• Many problems that confront us today are created by man, whether they are violent conflicts, destruction of the environment, poverty or hunger. These problems can be resolved thanks to human efforts by understanding that we are brother and sister and by developing this sense of closeness. We must cultivate a universal responsibility toward each other and extend it to the planet that we have to share.

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  Brother, Responsibility, Men

• As people alive today, we must consider future generations: a clean environment is a human right like any other. It is therefore part of our responsibility toward others to ensure that the world we pass on is as healthy, if not healthier, than we found it.

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  Responsibility, Compassion, People

• We share the earth not only with our fellow human beings, but with all the other creatures.

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  Nature, Travel, Environmental

• It is our collective and individual responsibility to preserve and tend to the environment in which we all live.

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  Inspirational, Responsibility, Environmental

• We are all here on this planet, as it were, as tourists. None of us can live here forever. The longest we might live is a hundred years. So while we are here we should try to have a good heart and to make something positive and useful of our lives. Whether we live just a few years or a whole century, it would be truly regrettable and sad if we were to spend that time aggravating the problems that afflict other people, animals, and the environment. The most important things is to be a good human being.

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  Life Changing, Heart, Animal

  His Holiness The Dalai Lama (1998). “Path To Tranquility”, p.358, Penguin Books India

• The natural environment sustains the life of all beings universally.

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  Nature, Environmental, Natural

• Distrust brings frustration and fear. So therefore, the lonely feeling automatically come. So, lonely feeling is not creation of environment, but creation of your own mental attitude.

  Dalai Lama

  Lonely, Attitude, Frustration

• I believe that to meet the challenge of our times, human beings will have to develop a greater sense of universal responsibility. We must all learn to work not just for our own self, family, or nation but for the benefit of all humankind. Universal responsibility is the key to human survival. It is the best foundation for world peace, the equitable use of natural resources, and through concern for future generations, the proper care of the environment.

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  Believe, Responsibility, Helping Others

• Every human should have the idea of taking care of the environment, of nature, of water. So using too much or wasting water should have some kind of feeling or sense of concern. Some sort of responsibility and with that, a sense of discipline.

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  Responsibility, Should Have, Ideas

• The earth is not just our environment. The earth is our mother.

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  Mother, Earth, Environment

• Morally speaking, we should be concerned for our whole environment.

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  Animal, Environment, Should

  Dalai Lama XIV (1995). “My Tibet”, p.53, Univ of California Press

• We need to teach people that the environment has a direct bearing on our own benefit.

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  Teaching, People, Needs

  Dalai Lama XIV (1995). “My Tibet”, p.53, Univ of California Press

• Climate change has been immense difficulties of pains or illness or hard life on this planet. So through that way, you have sense of concern of the well being, not sky, not just the environment itself.

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  Pain, Sky, Hard Life

  Source: www.kpbs.org

• Tibetans must take full authority and responsibility for developing industry, looking from all different perspectives, taking care of the environment, conserving resources for long-term economic health, and safeguarding the interests of Tibetan workers, nomads, and farmers.

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  Responsibility, Long, Perspective

  Source: www.motherjones.com

• We live within the environment. So that directly relates with our survival, our life. So through that way, more concern of well being of humanity, then naturally concerned about environment.

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  Humanity, Survival, Way

  Source: www.kpbs.org

• Taking care of our planet is like taking care of our houses. Since we human beings come from Nature, there is no point in our going against nature, which is why I say the environment is not a matter of religion or ethics or morality. These are luxuries, since we can survive without them. But we will not survive if we continue to go against nature.

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  Luxury, House, Care

• ... Our individual well-being is intimately connected both with that of all others and with the environment within which we live.... Our every action, our every deed, word, and thought, no matter how slight or inconsequential it may seem, has an implication not only for ourselves, but for all others, too.

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  Deeds, May, Matter

  The Dalai Lama, Alexander Norman (2010). “Ancient Wisdom, Modern World: Ethics for the New Millennium”, p.32, Hachette UK

• Wealth is not necessarily a bad thing when it has been earned in an honest manner and neither other individuals nor the environment suffered for it.

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  Honest, Wealth, Environment

• In today's highly interdependent world, individuals and nations can no longer resolve many of their problems by themselves. We need one another. It is our collective and individual responsibility to protect and nurture the global family, to support its weaker members, and to preserve and tend to the environment in which we all live.

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  Responsibility, Support, Needs

• I feel that we should not only maintain gentle, peaceful relations with our fellow human beings bur also that is very important to extend the same kind of attitude toward the natural environment.

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  Attitude, Peaceful, Important

  Dalai Lama XIV (1995). “My Tibet”, p.53, Univ of California Press

• Ultimately, the decision to save the environment must come from the human heart. The key point is a call for a genuine sense of universal responsibility that is based on love, compassion and clear awareness.

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  Responsibility, Heart, Compassion

  Dalai Lama XIV (2009). “Worlds in Harmony: Compassionate Action for a Better World: Easyread Comfort Edition”, p.48, ReadHowYouWant.com

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