Pope Francis Quotes

Nature does not have the capacity to heal all the wounds that have been inflicted upon it by mankind.

If you sort of treat the environment in sort of this mechanical, industrial way that there's a disconnect between man and the environment, it's very easy to treat people that way.

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

The whole of nature cries out at our mistreatment of her. If the planet were a patient, we would have treated her long ago.

I don’t know if it is all (man’s fault) but the majority is, for the most part, it is man who continuously slaps down nature.

We are the only species systematically destroying its own habitat.

We humans are the greatest of earth's parasites.

Mankind has probably done more damage to the Earth in the 20th century than in all of previous human history.

The planet does nothing but support us, and we are constantly committing crimes against nature.

Man's war against nature is a war against himself.

Our planetary system is affected by a magnitude of force as powerful as any naturally occurring global catastrophe, but one caused solely by a single species: us.

The abuse of the Earth is the ecological crisis.

Our insatiable drive to rummage deep beneath the surface of the earth is a willful expansion of our dysfunctional civilization into Nature.

The earth has a skin and that skin has diseases; one of its diseases is called man.

Disasters are called natural, as if nature were the executioner and not the victim.

The thing that gave me the most pain in life, psychologically, and it gave me tremendous pain psychologically, is man's disrespect for nature.

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

Humans have changed ecosystems more rapidly and extensively than in any comparable period of time in human history, largely to meet rapidly growing demands for food, fresh water, timber, fiber and fuel. This has resulted in a substantial and largely irreversible loss in the diversity of life on Earth.

Relative to most of the energy and material flows on Earth, the machinations of humankind are puny. The planet's powers are much, much bigger than our own. But in a few sensitive places, we're making an impact on a planetary scale, and that impact is not a good one.

White males are the most responsible for the destruction of human life and environment on the planet today.

Wild animals are just as confused as people are now. You've got toxins in the water, oil, sewage, all sorts of things.

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

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.

The environment will continue to deteriorate until pollution practices are abandoned.

Sadly, in the name of progress, we have polluted the air, water, soil and the food we eat.