George Carlin Quotes

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

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.

Because normal human activity is worse for nature than the greatest nuclear accident in history.

It wont be long now it wont be long man is making deserts of the earth it wont be long now before man will have used it up so that nothing but ants and centipedes and scorpions can find a living on it.

I'm truly sorry man's dominion has broken Nature's social union.

The increasing desolation of nature, the exhaustion of resources, the uneasiness and disintegration of the human spirit, all have been brought about by humanity's trying to accomplish something.

People thought they could explain and conquer nature-yet the outcome is that they destroyed it and disinherited themselves from it.

Man marks the earth with ruin - his control stops with the shore.

Humans may be destroying their chances for decent survival. It won't kill everybody, but it would change the world dramatically.

There is today a frightful disappearance of living species, be they plants or animals. And it's clear that the density of human beings has become so great, if I can say so, that they have begun to poison themselves. And the world in which I am finishing my existence is no longer a world that I like.

Human beings are so destructive. I sometimes think we're a kind of plague, that will scrub the earth clean. We destroy things so well that I sometimes think, maybe that's our function. Maybe every few eons, some animal comes along that kills off the rest of the world, clears the decks, and lets evolution proceed to its next phase.

Whether many people realize it yet or not, man, the Inferior Animal, has by now proved himself incapable of keeping his own species - and others - alive for very much longer. So the earth has begun its own plan to set things right.

We have, in a sense, lorded it over nature, over Sister Earth, over Mother Earth, i think man has gone too far.

You've got to spread out as far as you can, cut down a whole forest, irrigate a whole desert, just to make sure that you won't accidentally stumble upon a place that's still in its natural state.

Man has been endowed with reason, with the power to create, so that he can add to what he's been given. But up to now he hasn't been a creator, only a destroyer. Forests keep disappearing, rivers dry up, wild life's become extinct, the climate's ruined and the land grows poorer and uglier every day.

Nature is truly wonderful. Only man is truly foul.

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

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

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

I was so fanatical about trying to save wildlife... I was unable to accept that we couldn't solve this problem of thousands of years, of wherever humans operated, the environment deteriorated.

Apart from the most obvious cases, like the Oriental Bittersweet vine, escaped from private gardens and smothering the mountains one acre at a time, the most painful proof of man's destruction is not what you can see right in front of you; it's what you will never see again.

The human juggernaut is permanently eroding Earth's ancient biosphere.

We have killed off nature, that world entirely independent of us which was here before we arrived and which encircled and supported our human society

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

The earth is one big interconnected entity. If you hurt a piece, you hurt the whole. If you hurt the people, you hurt the environment.