Mikhail Gorbachev Quote

We desperately need to recognise that we are the guests, not the masters, of nature and adopt a new paradigm for development, based on the costs and benefits to all people, and bound by the limits of nature herself rather than the limits of technology and consumerism.


As quoted in Planet Savers : 301 Extraordinary Environmentalists (2008) by Kevin Desmond, p. 248


We desperately need to recognise that we are the guests, not the masters, of nature and adopt a new paradigm for development, based on the costs and...

We desperately need to recognise that we are the guests, not the masters, of nature and adopt a new paradigm for development, based on the costs and...

We desperately need to recognise that we are the guests, not the masters, of nature and adopt a new paradigm for development, based on the costs and...

We desperately need to recognise that we are the guests, not the masters, of nature and adopt a new paradigm for development, based on the costs and...