Timothy Morton Quotes

Environmental concern is a phenomena that tends to rise in a nation after a certain level of wealth.

My main issue is sustainability of the Earth, and protection of those animals and people who dwell here.

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?

Unless we keep this planet healthy, everything else is for naught.

I'm an environmentalist; I recycle.

I travel all over the country speaking to young people, and I am always amazed at how engaged in environmental conservation they are.

Raising awareness on the most pressing environmental issues of our time is more important than ever.

Fundamentally, if you look at where the environmental issues are coming from, it's all because of humans and our impact on the environment, so while it's true that one individual is not going to sufficiently fix the environment, it is a necessary thing.

Being an environmentalist isn't all about doom and gloom.

The planet's environmental woes tend to be overlooked as we scramble for the latest high-tech gizmos - and conveniently ignore their energy consumption.

Environmental concern is now firmly embedded in public life: in education, medicine and law; in journalism, literature and art.

A generation of Earth Days has conditioned millions of us to be green in our homes yet we must apply the same ethic to our politics if we want to save our planet and our democracy.

In the state of Wisconsin it's mandated that teachers in the social sciences and hard sciences have to start giving environmental education by the first grade, through high school.

We can have technology, prosperity, nice homes and cars, but at the same time we must be conscious of what we are dumping into the water, the air and our food.

Every time there is an economic intensification, there is an ecological impact.

The earth is the only home that any of us have—so far, anyway.

We are going to learn how to relate to the Earth and our own natural environment here by looking seriously at space colony ecologies.

The environmental movement does not always have to be about stopping things. It can be about fixing problems.

When you look for the environment, you find things that are in it: a hammer, a smartphone, some rusty nails, a shed, a spider, some grass, a tree. So there is a big difference between environmentality and Nature. Nature is definitely something you can point to: it is 'over yonder' in the mountains, in my DNA, under the pavement.

I agree on the need for environmental sustainability. It is no good raising gross national income while at the same time destroying natural assets.

I want to work on environmental issues.

Why are ecologists and environmentalists so feared and hated? This is because in part what they have to say is new to the general public, and the new is always alarming.

I feel the 21st century is another new age. Not only can we collaborate again with nature, but we have to. It's an emergency.

Once humans traded their hunter-gatherer existences for more settled communities, we began a quest to make our lives better and more comfortable, but we've also been sucking precious finite resources from our environment ever since.

This Earth is our only home. Together, we must protect and cherish it.