Marquis de Sade Quotes

Destruction, hence, like creation, is one of Nature's mandates.

With such wisdom has nature ordered things in the economy of this world, that the destruction of one continent is not brought about without the renovation of the earth in the production of another.

Nature is actually resilient, if we take care to just stop actively destroying it.

The question of energy is an important one. The big issue is how to get it, how not to destroy the environment, and how to survive as a species. It's a big deal.

Nature abhors annihilation.

A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise.

The idea that we're somehow centrally important to the planet's existence is pretty comical - although I'd like us to be.

We do not fully understand the consequences of rising populations and increasing energy consumption on the interwoven fabric of atmosphere, water, land and life.

I believe that the end of things man-made cannot be very far away - must be near at hand.

I do believe very strongly that all of us and all of the other things in the context of our planet with Mother Nature, all of these things absolutely have a profound effect.

A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability, and beauty of the biotic community.

… human population growth within the ecosystem was closely analogous to the growth of malignant tumor cells within an organism: that man was acting like a cancer on the biosphere. The multiplication of human numbers certainly seems wild and uncontrolled... Four million a month - the equivalent of the population of Chicago... We seem to be doing all right at the moment; but if you could ask cancer cells, I suspect they would think they were doing fine. But when the organism dies, so do they; and for our own, selfish, practical, utilitarian reasons, I think we should be careful about how we influence the rest of the ecosystem.

I do not like to see anything destroyed; any void produced in society; any ruin on the face of the land.

Nature has a way of giving back. And we can never go against it.

Only people who lack wisdom would say that a project should be pursued even if it leads to wanton destruction of forests.

The world breaks a little bit every time we cut down a tree. It's so much easier to cut one down than to grow one. And so it's worth interrogating every time we do it.

It's quite possible that the end of us will not be the end of the Earth. Even if we really screw things up and things go badly for us and our civilization, the Earth is pretty resilient.

The planet isn't going anywhere. We are.

In a moment the ashes are made, but a forest is a long time growing.

The whites, too, shall pass - perhaps sooner than other tribes. Continue to contaminate your bed and you will one night suffocate in your own waste.

If you narrow the playing field, the next generation has less to put out, to eat and regenerate from.

I try to be like a forest: revitalizing and constantly growing.

Ecology is boring for the same reason that destruction is fun.

in terms of the biology of the planet, development is a euphemism for destruction.