Jacques Chirac Quotes

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

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

Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end by destroying the earth.

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

We humans are the greatest of earth's parasites.

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.

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

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

Humanity is consuming the resources of the earth and life in an excessive and disordered way, forgetting the earth's own needs

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

It seems that every time mankind is given a lot of energy, we go out and wreck something with it.

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.

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.

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.

Mother Nature is not sweet.

Around the world today we're seeing an incredible transformation, from what I would call a biocidal species, one that - whether we intentionally or unintentionally - have designed our systems to kill life, a lot of the time.

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

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

The great task for environmental historians is to record and analyze the effects of man's recently achieved control over the natural world. What is needed is a longer-term global, comparative, historical perspective that treats the environment as a meaningful variable.

Your armed struggles for profit Have left collars of waste upon My shore,, Currents of debris upon my breast.

In the long term the economy and the environment are the same thing. If it is unenvironmental it is uneconomical. That is a rule of nature.

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

Environmental degradation and pollution constrain economic growth, contribute to large-scale migration, harm public health, and engender social unrest.

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