Albert Schweitzer Quotes

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

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

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

We won't have a society if we destroy the environment.

We're not environmentally doing very good things to this planet, and we might not be around too long.

Man is complex—he makes deserts bloom and lakes die.

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

Our conservation laws are based on static ideas about nature—not landscapes that are rapidly changing because of something humans did.

It was once religion which told us that we are all sinners because of original sin. It is now the ecology of our planet which pronounces us all to be sinners because of the excessive exploits of human inventiveness.

Nature is the mother and the habitat of man, even if sometimes a stepmother and an unfriendly home.

If people destroy something replaceable made by mankind, they are called vandals; if they destroy something irreplaceable made by God, they are called developers.

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.

It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment.

We're busily wrecking the chances for future generations at a rapid rate of knots by not recognizing the damage we're doing to the natural environment, bearing in mind that this is the only planet that we know has any life on it.

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

Mother Nature comes up against reality, and the reality is that the system doesn't work.

We are running ourselves into a damaged earth. But I am optimistic. I believe that we can change; we must change. As a human race, we are very young and quite primitive. The sooner we learn the greatness of humanity the better off we will all be.

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

Evolution can go to hell as far as I am concerned. What a mistake we are. We have mortally wounded this sweet life-supporting planet - the only one in the whole Milky Way - with a century of transportation whoopee.

We cannot but feel uneasy about the losses caused by humanity themselves. Apart from the losses of life and property in destructive wars, the environment and natural resources are also being destroyed by human hands.

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

Mother Nature is not sweet.

The earth we abuse and the living things we kill will, in the end, take their revenge; for in exploiting their presence we are diminishing our future.

The environment is more than just nature. The environment is peoples needs.

I do believe this period of the 1980's will be remembered as the time the planet struck back. The planet is telling us we can't treat it this way anymore.