Dave Foreman Quotes

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

I'm truly sorry man's dominion has broken Nature's social union.

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

The insufferable arrogance of human beings to think that Nature was made solely for their benefit, as if it was conceivable that the sun had been set afire merely to ripen men's apples and head their cabbages.

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

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

Man is everywhere a disturbing agent. Wherever he plants his foot, the harmonies of nature are turned to discords.

Strip mining is man’s thorough and total assault upon his planet.

We're terrible animals. I think that the Earth's immune system is trying to get rid of us, as well it should.

humanity is a cancer on the body of the world

I don’t know if it is all (man’s fault) but the majority is, for the most part, it is man who continuously slaps down nature.

Man marks the earth with ruin - his control stops with the shore.

Once the Western mind was disconnected from its sense of divine responsibility and genuine reverence towards nature, all hell broke loose. And that’s where we are now.

Our insatiable drive to rummage deep beneath the surface of the earth is a willful expansion of our dysfunctional civilization into Nature.

We have come to look at our planet as a resource for our species, which is funny when you think that the planet has been around for about five billion years, and Homo sapiens for perhaps one hundred thousand. We have acquired an arrogance about ourselves that I find frightening. We have come to feel that we are so far apart from the rest of nature that we have but to command.

The 20th century peatlands ditching in Finland was the worst human environmental destruction action in Europe.

We have probed the earth, excavated it, burned it, ripped things from it, buried things in it.... That does not fit my definition of a good tenant. If we were here on a month-to-month basis, we would have been evicted long ago.

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.

The destruction of the natural beauty, the ecosystems, and the majesty of mountains affect us in ways we're not even aware of. Every time a mountain is beheaded, we chop off a little part of our souls.

Wild animals are just as confused as people are now. You've got toxins in the water, oil, sewage, all sorts of things.

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

Mankind has probably done more damage to the Earth in the 20th century than in all of previous human history.

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