Quotes About Environment

Heredity can be a strong pull. Heredity and early environment together, an almost irresistible pull. Those who break it, who make their own despite it, are very strong.

the people. The bees that buzz, the birds that fly, all bound together.

Changing it without damaging it. If you cut down a tree, is what you're putting in its place worth the sacrifice?

For any machine subject to a varied external environment to act effectively it is necessary that information concerning the results of its own action be furnished to it as part of the information on which it must continue to act.

When you think about it, Johnny Appleseed was a fucking ecological terrorist.

For thousands of years, human beings had screwed up and trashed and crapped on this planet, and now history expected me to clean up after everyone. I have to wash out and flatten my soup cans. And account for every drop of used motor oil. And I have to foot the bill for nuclear waste and buried gasoline tanks and landfilled toxic sludge dumped a generation before I was born.

Every time we burn a gallon of gas or an acre of rain forest, aren't we killing the future to preserve the present?

Only when we eat up this planet will God give us another. We'll be remembered more for what we destroy than what we create.

I wanted to destroy everything beautiful I'd never have. Burn the Amazon rain forests. Pump chlorofluorocarbons straight up to gobble the ozone. Open the dump valves on supertankers and uncap offshore oil wells. I wanted to kill all the fish I couldn't afford to eat, and smother the French beaches I'd never see. I wanted the whole world to hit bottom.

I felt like putting a bullet between the eyes of every Panda that wouldn't screw to save its species. I wanted to open the dump valves on oil tankers and smother all the French beaches I'd never see. I wanted to breathe smoke.

New carpet will exude poisonous formaldehyde for up to two years after it'd been laid. I know the feeling.

Every planet will take on the corporate identity of whoever rapes it first.

Cyanide is natural. So is arsenic.

The worst job in the whole world must be recycling toilet paper.

At the store, they have one-hundred-percent-recycled toilet paper, Marla says. The worst job in the whole world must be recycling toilet paper.

The only biodiversity we're going to have left is Coke versus Pepsi. We're landscaping the whole world one stupid mistake at a time.

Sentía ganas de meterle una bala entre los ojos a cualquier panda que se negara a follar para salvar su especie. Quería abrir las válvulas de descarga rápida de todos los petroleros y cubrir de crudo todas esas magnificas playas que yo jamás conocería. Quería respirar humo.

What Tyler says about being the crap and the slaves of history, that's how I felt. I wanted to destroy everything beautiful I'd never have. Burn the Amazon rain forests. Pump chlorofluorocarbons straight up to gobble the ozone. Open the dump valves on supertankers and uncap offshore oil wells. I wanted to kill all the fish I couldn't afford to eat, and smother the French beaches I'd never see.

Birds and deer are a silly luxury, and all the fish should be floating.

Like it or not, the road to Hell is paved with sustainable bamboo flooring.

The crap and the trash of the world. Post-consumer human butt wipe that no one would ever go to the trouble to recycle.

It's not a big deal [...]. We do it every day. Kill the unborn to save the elderly. [...] every time we burn a gallon of gas or an acre of rain forest, aren't we killing the future to preserve the present?

For the white man, his guilt was his biggest badge of accomplishment. Only whites killed the planet with global warming so only whites could save it. Their boasting never let up.

Wenn meine Eltern sich Gott überhaupt einmal vorstellten, dann als himmelhohen berggroßen Schwulenrechtler, der mit geflügelten Delfinen anstelle von Cherubim das Ozonloch repariert. Und Regenbögen, jede Menge Regenbögen.