environment quotes by IRVING BABBITT-1486563324
The American reading his Sunday paper in a state of lazy collapse is perhaps the most perfect symbol of the triumph of quantity over quality.... Whole forests are being ground into pulp daily to minister to our triviality.
environment quotes by STEPHEN JAY GOULD-1486545755
Human consciousness arose but a minute before midnight on the geological clock. Yet we mayflies try to bend an ancient world to our purposes, ignorant perhaps of the messages buried in its long history. Let us hope that we are still in the early morning of our April day.
environment quotes by GIL STERN-1486544343
Man is a complex being: he makes deserts bloom - and lakes die.
environment quotes by RACHEL CARSON-1486527198
It is a curious situation that the sea, from which life first arose, should now be threatened by the activities of one form of that life.
environment quotes by HENRY DAVID THOREAU-1486445709
Every creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and pine trees, and he who understands it aright will rather preserve its life than destroy it.
environment quotes by CARL SAGAN-1486444318
The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition.
environment quotes by DAVE FOREMAN-1486442591
Our environmental problems originate in the hubris of imagining ourselves as the central nervous system or the brain of nature. We're not the brain, we are a cancer on nature.
environment quotes by ANONYMOUS WINTU WOMAN-1486441301
How can the spirit of the earth like the white man?... Everywhere the white man has touched it, it is sore.
environment quotes by WILLIAM RATHJE-1486435602
Dig a trench through a landfill and you will see layers of phone books like geographical strata or layers of cake.... During a recent landfill dig in Phoenix, I found newspapers dating from 1952 that looked so fresh you might read one over breakfast.
environment quotes by LUTHER BURBANK-1486401703
Nature's laws affirm instead of prohibit. If you violate her laws you are your own prosecuting attorney, judge, jury, and hangman.
environment quotes by LANE OLINGHOUSE-1486400012
Remember when atmospheric contaminants were romantically called stardust?
environment quotes by LOUDON WAINWRIGHT-1486398762
The magnificence of mountains, the serenity of nature - nothing is safe from the idiot marks of man's passing.
environment quotes by CHIEF LUTHER STANDING BEAR-1486397490
The old Lakota was wise. He knew that man's heart away from nature becomes hard; he knew that lack of respect for growing, living things soon led to lack of respect for humans too.
environment quotes by ERNEST JONES-1486396209
The control man has secured over nature has far outrun his control over himself.
environment quotes by IAN MCHARG-1486394290
Man is a blind, witless, low brow, anthropocentric clod who inflicts lesions upon the earth.
environment quotes by PAUL R. EHRLICH-1486371505
The mother of the year should be a sterilized woman with two adopted children.
environment quotes by ALBERT SCHWEITZER-1486368134
Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end by destroying the earth.
environment quotes by DAVID GERROLD-1486353437
Understanding the laws of nature does not mean that we are immune to their operations.
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