Jane Goodall Quotes

We are in danger of destroying ourselves by our greed and stupidity. We cannot remain looking inwards at ourselves on a small and increasingly polluted and overcrowded planet.

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

Here we are, the most clever species ever to have lived. So how is it we can destroy the only planet we have?

Because we're not in harmony with the environment, we're destroying the environment that supports us.

As we kill nature, we are killing ourselves, and God incarnate as the world as well.

The truth is that our race survived ignorance; it is our scientific genius that will do us in.

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

We're in a war, the war of industrial civilization against the natural world.

The planet isn't going anywhere. We are.

Our brain is almost the same as the chimps', but we have language, we have electronic communications, we've put people on the moon - we are immensely more intelligent. And yet: how come the being with the most extraordinary intellect ever is destroying its only planet?

In reality, the main thing that keeps me awake at night is probably the destruction of the planet that's what gets me pretty upset.

We’re destroying the world because we are, in a very literal and deliberate way, at war with it.

The Earth is not dying-it is being killed. And the people who are killing it have names and addresses.

We would destroy ourselves and the planet if no change happens, because of the amplification of the egoic state through science and technology.

The destruction of the earth’s environment is the human rights challenge of our time.

An Armageddon is approaching at the beginning of the third millennium. But it is not the cosmic war and fiery collapse of mankind foretold in sacred scripture. It is the wreckage of the planet by an exuberantly plentiful and ingenious humanity.

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

Ignorance, hatred and greed are killing nature.

This is a wonderful planet, and it is being completely destroyed by people who have too much money and power and no empathy.

If we destroy the biosphere, then mankind will die. We all waste our time worrying about stupid wars and petty jealousy and greed, and all the time, we're sitting on a time bomb.

There is no scientific reason to think that we, even with space travel, are going to survive as a species for ever, certainly not by biting off the hand that feeds us, which is exactly what we are doing.

We, Homo sapiens, destroyed the majority of the large mammalian species in North America and Australasia just over 10,000 years ago. We, Homo sapiens, now are destroying the other species that presently exist on this planet at a rate of about 15,000 to 20,000 per year.

During these last ten thousand years, we have made massive, unprecedented changes to the environment, creating problems for ourselves that we may not be able to solve.

We are a plague on the Earth.

For 200 years we've been conquering nature. Now we're beating it to death.