Jean Houston Quotes

Nature's message is clear: we can't keep doing what we're doing now.

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.

The fate of the living planet is the most important issue facing mankind.

We need to get a broader awareness. People say climate change is really bad, but painting that picture of what you're putting at risk.

We're destroying the planet, and the planet rebels.

We all live on the same planet, it is our only home, so... we used to rotate crops back in the day and, you know, who cares if you're going to make a profit if everybody's too dead or glowing in the dark to be able to purchase anything.

I'm an old member of Greenpeace. I worried intensely, as I think most of my friends did, that the world was coming apart.

The ecological crisis is doing what no other crisis in history has ever done - challenging us to a realization of a new humanity.

The world's deteriorating ecology poses as great a danger to mankind today as did the nuclear standoff between the superpowers at the height of the Cold War.

To me the question of the environment is more ominous than that of peace and war...I'm more worried about global warming than I am of any major military conflict.

In China's thousands of years of civilization, the conflict between humankind and nature has never been as serious as it is today.

To survive, humans need food, water, and air. Yet biodiversity, the Earth's bodies of water, and the planet's atmosphere are all under threat.

I can't really see how anybody could be particularly optimistic about the future in general because we are destroying the planet.

Development requires modification and transformation of the environment... the planet's capacity to support its people us being irreversibly reduced by the destruction and degradation of the biosphere and the need to understand the problem and take corrective action is becoming urgent.

Generally speaking, the political news, whether domestic or foreign, might be written today for the next ten years with sufficientaccuracy. Most revolutions in society have not power to interest, still less alarm us; but tell me that our rivers are drying up, or the genus pine dying out in the country, and I might attend.

In America, I don't know how much longer the environment is going to exist. I sort of strongly believe that we're in danger.

We don't have seasons anymore. You know why? We lost the ozone layer. Well, put it on milk cartons - let's find it!

The question of whether it's God's green earth is not at center stage, except in the sense that if so, one is reminded with some regularity that He may be dying.

I think we are in the midst of this period where we are committing this suicide on the planet and everybody is just using up all of our natural resources like a bunch of insane people. That's what I worry about more than I worry about jazz.

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

The latest revelation - from no Mount Sinai, Sermon on the Mount or Bo tree - is the outcry of mute things themselves that we must heed by curbing our powers over creation, lest we perish together on a wasteland of what that creation once was.

If nature were a bank, they would have already rescued it.

Collective human actions are transforming, even ravaging, the biosphere - perhaps irreversibly - through global warming and loss of biodiversity.

The planet will survive. Whether we get to be here and enjoy it, or enjoy life as we've known it, is what's questionable.