Quotes About Environment

The people in the chaos cannot learn. They cannot understand what they are doing to the sea and the sky and the plants and the animals. They cannot understand that they are killing them, and that they will end by killing themselves. And there are so many of them, and each one of them is doing part of the killing, whether they know it or not. And when you tell them to stop, they don't hear you.

By extension, anyone who liked smelling the daisies, and having daisies to smell, and eating mercury-free fish, and who objected to giving birth to three-eyed infants via the toxic sludge in their drinking water was a demon-possessed Satanic minion of darkness, hell-bent on sabotaging the American Way and God's Holy Oil, which were one and the same.

The floods, the fires, the tornadoes, the hurricanes, the droughts, the water shortages, the earthquakes. [...] Why did I think it would nonetheless be business as usual? Because we'd been hearing these things for so long, I suppose. You don't believe the sky is falling until a chunk of it falls on you

not the shore but an aquarium filled with exhausted water and warm seaweed

A momentary psychotic break," I'd said. "The strain of being in a strange and debilitating environment, such as Canada, can have that effect.

The threat to the planet is us. It's actually not a threat to the planet - it's a threat to us.

Guess it's the climate change," says Sam. That's what people say, the way they used to say, We've angered God.

Something about a bunch of trees made people think they could cut loose. "Wherever there's Nature, there's assholes," he said cheerfully.

Every breath we inhale comes from nature; kill it and we kill ourselves.

It's psychic. It's the age. It's chemical.

You can't couple a minimum access to food with an expanding population indefinitely. Homo sapiens doesn't seem able to cut himself off at the supply end. He's one of the few species that doesn't limit reproduction in the face of dwindling resources. In other words – and up to a point, of course – the less we eat, the more we fuck.

And one of the other routes we looked at crosses a wetlands. The bird lovers would be out in force.

There'll be a demand for campgrounds and hiking trails.

Too much of the world was inhospitable, intractable... Why prove that it had ever once been green?

We won't have a society if we destroy the environment.

More than 20 years on, sustained competition, informed customers and the rapid growth of new technology provide the necessary environment for substantial deregulation.

What would our lives be like if our days and nights were as immersed in nature as they are in technology?

Human use, population, and technology have reached that certain stage where mother Earth no longer accepts our presence with silence.

More science and more technology are not going to get us out of the present ecological crises until we find a new religion, or rethink our old one.

To me, a wilderness is where the flow of wildness is essentially uninterrupted by technology; without wilderness the world is a cage.

Humans are now the most numerous mammal on the planet. There are more humans than rats or mice. Humans have a huge ecological footprint, magnified by their technology.

Pollution is nothing but resources we're not harvesting.

This is a big deal. It's a fairly natural partnership; it shouldn't surprise people, ... We're working on bringing this network-is-the-computer, Net services environment.

The gains made by better management and technology are still being outpaced by the environmental impacts of population and economic growth. We are on an unsustainable course.