Chinua Achebe Quotes

The more we get out of the world the less we leave, and in the long run we shall have to pay our debts at a time that may be very inconvenient for our own survival.

People in cities may forget the soil for as long as a hundred years, but Mother Nature's memory is long and she will not let them forget indefinitely.

A fascinating challenge facing today's environmental movement is how to best approach the reversal of past decisions that altered once-pristine environmental spaces for the sake of urgent man-made needs.

Now, the downside to conservation is that so much is done for the public, which almost always mars the environment that one wanted to conserve.

Pity those who nature abuses; never those who abuse nature.

We're the only species that have crapped up the planet and the only species that can clean it up.

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.

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

The people who are out to destroy the environment think they're going to get away with it. Are they breathing different air than we're breathing? Are they eating different food? I mean, where do they think they're going to go? What do they think is going to be better than what they have destroyed? I just don't get it.

If we're damaged it will take 20 years to fix ourselves. It only takes one year to cause 20 years of damage.

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

Protecting Americans from harm goes beyond police and national defense. It's imperative that we not destroy the commons, the physical environment on which we rely.

The environment shapes people's actions.

Ignorance, hatred and greed are killing nature.

Because we're not in harmony with the environment, we're destroying the environment that supports us.

I think the greatest challenge in environmentalism and the most rewarding challenge is trying to figure out how humans can meet their needs while protecting the environment.

Traveling is my form of self-education. Every stream I fish now is not as good as it used to be. Traveling is my form of self-education. Every stream I fish now is not as good as it used to be. If you keep your eyes open as you travel around, you realize we are destroying this planet.

I tell my environmental friends that they have won. Every issue we look at from an energy perspective is now also looked at from an environmental perspective.

Raising awareness on the most pressing environmental issues of our time is more important than ever.

Once humans traded their hunter-gatherer existences for more settled communities, we began a quest to make our lives better and more comfortable, but we've also been sucking precious finite resources from our environment ever since.

We owe it to our children to be better stewards of the environment. The alternative? - a world without whales. It's too terrible to imagine.

We've got to step up our conservation efforts before it's too late. We're not protecting our lands and natural resources. Take the Grand Canyon for example; I'm sure that at one time it was a beautiful piece of land, and just look at the way we've let it go.

We won't have a society if we destroy the environment.

The environmental crisis is all a result of rushing.

Energy is probably the most pressing demand on our planet.