Russel Honore Quotes

Blizzards, floods, volcanoes, hurricanes, earthquakes: They fascinate because they nakedly reveal that Mother Nature, afflicted with bipolar disorder, is as likely to snuff us as she is to succor us

Even with all our technology and the inventions that make modern life so much easier than it once was, it takes just one big natural disaster to wipe all that away and remind us that, here on Earth, we're still at the mercy of nature.

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

One thing you cannot control is nature.

Mother Nature may be forgiving this year, or next year, but eventually she's going to come around and whack you. You've got to be prepared.

Mother Nature is not sweet.

Sadly, it's much easier to create a desert than a forest.

It's obvious nonsense, but it makes nice people feel good about themselves to do their bit for the planet. It's vanity of a grotesque kind to believe that mankind, and our 'carbon footprint', has more impact on the future of Earth than Nature, which bends our planet to its will, as it sees fit.

As my early drawings warned me, where humans go, lions and tidal waves follow.

We may achieve climate, but weather is thrust upon us.

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

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.

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

There probably were floods when our land was newly settled but before we cut our trees so recklessly they were not so serious. If we go to the headwaters of our rivers and we will find the cause and the results which follow in the wake of man's destructive ignorance.

The thing about climate change is that you’ll never know for sure until it’s way too late.

It's always difficult when you're working with Mother Nature, because you need to adapt to that.

Disasters are called natural, as if nature were the executioner and not the victim.

God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fools.

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

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

That's the thing about Mother Nature, she really doesn't care what economic bracket you're in.

The earth is a fickle place for all life, not least the human project of civilization.

I think we are bound to, and by, nature. We may want to deny this connection and try to believe we control the external world, but every time there's a snowstorm or drought, we know our fate is tied to the world around us.

We have no reason to think that climate change is harmful if you look at the world as a whole. Most places, in fact, are better off being warmer than being colder. And historically, the really bad times for the environment and for people have been the cold periods rather than the warm periods.

Nature is regulating our climate for free. Mother Nature, she's been doing that for free, for a long, long time. Now do you really want to get in there and do geo-engineering and all this kind of stuff?