Anthony Horowitz Quotes

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.

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

The narrative of progress is no longer sustainable.

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

The destruction of our environment and resources cannot be stemmed unless the growth of the world's population is stemmed and ultimately reduced.

I always get involved with the environment because once you go past the tipping point with the environment, you don't get it back.

If you look at the state of our planet, the next generations won't be around if we consider sustainability as a gimmick.

We feel that the road to technology.... has led modern society to a damaged and seared earth

Even the wealth of the U.S. cannot protect against the levels of environmental destruction that we are unleashing.

Time is running out if we want our next generations and the generations after that to continue living on this beautiful planet.

There's so much burying of heads in sand going on in the U.S., people are finally beginning to recognize that the environment is dying, but it's far too late, and I am conflicted.

Those who fail to see that population growth and climate change are two sides of the same coin are either ignorant or hiding from the truth. These two huge environmental problems are inseparable and to discuss one while ignoring the other is irrational.

Wouldn't it help Americans more, in the long run, if we were forced to accept some responsibility for the environmental wreckage we prefer to assume is totally out of our control?

I think having toured the world and seeing many places, I've just been blown away by how we've really scarred our home. I'm as guilty as the next person if not more so. I travel a lot. The damage we do to our planet is huge.

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.

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.

Too often, people think that solving the world's problems is based on conquering the earth, rather than touching the earth, touching ground.

We know it is impossible to go on finding, moving and wasting oil, leveling forests, paving land, dumping poisons, and multiplying our numbers. A new way of life, a new set of thoughts must be found.

With so much evidence of depleting natural resources, toxic waste, climate change, irreparable harm to our food chain and rapidly increasing instances of natural disasters, why do we keep perpetuating the problem? Why do we continue marching at the same alarming beat?

The environmental crisis is all a result of rushing.

The combination of population growth and the growth in consumption is a danger that we are not prepared for and something we will need global co-operation on.

The world is not going to be saved by legislation.

I think we can work through a lot of political and international problems, but what really frightens me is what's happening environmentally.

Unless we practice conservation, those who come after us will have to pay the price of misery, degradation, and failure for the progress and prosperity of our day.

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.