Bruce Lipton Quotes

Even the wealth of the U.S. cannot protect against the levels of environmental destruction that we are unleashing.

We all see that, today, man can destroy the foundation of his existence: his Earth.

I don't think the planet can survive people. It's not the other way around. I don't think the planet can survive.

With so much evidence of depleting natural resources, toxic waste, climate change, irreparable harm to our food chain and rapidly increasing instances of natural disasters, why do we keep perpetuating the problem? Why do we continue marching at the same alarming beat?

I'm a radical environmentalist; I think the sooner we asphyxiate in our own filth, the better. The world will do better without us. Maybe some fuzzy animals will go with us, but there'll be plenty of other animals, and they'll be back.

We're busily wrecking the chances for future generations at a rapid rate of knots by not recognizing the damage we're doing to the natural environment, bearing in mind that this is the only planet that we know has any life on it.

I really wonder what gives us the right to wreck this poor planet of ours.

We all live on the same planet, it is our only home, so... we used to rotate crops back in the day and, you know, who cares if you're going to make a profit if everybody's too dead or glowing in the dark to be able to purchase anything.

The environmental crisis is all a result of rushing.

If man doesn't learn to treat the oceans and the rain forest with respect, man will become extinct.

We're not environmentally doing very good things to this planet, and we might not be around too long.

The ecosystem of our world is a closed system: it would run out of gas, collapse of its own weight.

We speak often of 'destroying the planet' when what we mean is destroying its habitability for humans.

Planet Earth is far more resilient than humans and will certainly outlive us.

I never lose an opportunity to speak about my obsession: humankind and the environment.

The strong evidence is that we're running out of space. We're collectively affecting the world's climate. This is due to the still-growing human population and our increase in consumption.

Wouldn't it help Americans more, in the long run, if we were forced to accept some responsibility for the environmental wreckage we prefer to assume is totally out of our control?

It was once religion which told us that we are all sinners because of original sin. It is now the ecology of our planet which pronounces us all to be sinners because of the excessive exploits of human inventiveness.

The planet will adapt to anything. Maybe we should start to use the heart and the brain that we've been given to organize ourselves. Because if we keep screwing up things, we may be just passing by in the history of the planet.

If we pollute the air, water and soil that keep us alive and well, and destroy the biodiversity that allows natural systems to function, no amount of money will save us.

I can't imagine anything more important than air, water, soil, energy and biodiversity. These are the things that keep us alive.

Yet, despite our many advances, our environment is still threatened by a range of problems, including global climate change, energy dependence on unsustainable fossil fuels, and loss of biodiversity.

If people think nature is their friend, then they sure don't need an enemy.

The latest revelation - from no Mount Sinai, Sermon on the Mount or Bo tree - is the outcry of mute things themselves that we must heed by curbing our powers over creation, lest we perish together on a wasteland of what that creation once was.

It's not that hard to imagine the natural world recovering it's health in our absence: it's more difficult, and more necessary, to imagine it recovering its health in our presence.