Tom Brown Jr. Quotes

Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end by destroying the earth.

We tend to think that people are more to blame for their acts than for their omissions.

And worrying is less work than doing something to fix the worry. This is especially true if we're careful to pick the biggest possible problems to worry about. Everybody wants to save the earth; nobody want to help Mom do the dishes.

Especially in recent years, the more and more we understand what we are doing, the more we have the science to tell us what we're doing, the fact that we continue to do it without taking steps to address it strikes me as, among many other things, irreverent in an extreme.

If you know but do not do, you are a very unhappy person indeed.

I want to know what he did and who he failed.

Capt. Gordon is as responsible for the death of those on the Erie. As if he had taken the life of each by his own hand. For once, when no doubt exists as to guilt, a terrible example should be made.

Were we to slumber in indolence or fold up our arms and proclaim to the world that we are palsied by the will of our constituents, would it not be to cast away the bounties of Providence and doom ourselves to perpetual inferiority.

… the always unfortunate general is always a culpable one

Failure is almost never at the cost of those responsible.

Ignorance can be improved; willful ignorance and inaction is inexcusable.

Safety and comfort comes with complacency, and that's never a good place to be working from.

I think all the garbage in the world is thanks to a very small handful of idiots.

I am a millennial. Destruction is all I know. I no longer care what I wipe from the face of the Earth.

We will remember UPA 2, if at all, it seems, as that period when things went mysteriously wrong - for the bribe-taking, buck-passing, foot-dragging, and general sense of paralysis.

The fossil fuel industry is destroying our planet and everything that we love.

I don't want to be that person who's looking squarely at the shortcomings in the process right where I sit and then choose to walk away and do nothing.

Walking in the mountains helps me unwind, but it also reminds me in a painful way that the real beauty in life is nature and animals, and that the human race, in all its arrogance, is intent on destroying it.

I think my job is to leave some evidence for future generations that there was somebody who cared while we were destroying everything.

What is the future going to say about us now? What are our kids going to look at us and say, 'How could you not stop that person from getting into power? How could you not stop that environmental disaster that you saw coming a mile away?'

Very urgent measures need to be taken, and without much delay, in dealing with the ongoing destruction of the environment.

If we fail to act, we will end up with a different planet.

When one does nothing, one believes oneself responsible for everything.

Do you really want to know why I'm doing all this goodwill, and why I'm an ambassador for Habitat for Humanity and why I gave a million to [relief efforts for Hurricane] Katrina? It's because I feel guilty about the huge hole in the ozone layer my haircuts created. It's my responsibility to right the wrongs of the Eighties.

For a thing to remain undone nothing more is needed than to think of it done.