Richard Preston Quotes

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

Humans on the Earth behave in some ways like a pathogenic micro-organism, or like the cells of a tumor.

I see a lot of damage to Mother Earth. I see water being taken from creeks where water belongs to animals, not to oil companies.

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

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 had this incredible pass over the Himalayas, and to just see all of that pollution that's riding up against those mountains from the south is just really heartbreaking.

A lot of animals are finding themselves in positions where their habitats are being destroyed.

When geologists announced the beginning of a new geological epoch, the Anthropocene, humans destroying the environment, one of the main things they pointed to is the use of plastics in the earth.

In seven days God had created the Earth. In a single day mankind had turned it upside down.

Everyone knows that we're doing a science experiment with Earth. And the No. 1, No. 2, No. 3, No. 4 contributors to it are the mining and burning of coal.

If we could feel what we are doing to the Earth, we would stop immediately.

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

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.

Our planetary system is affected by a magnitude of force as powerful as any naturally occurring global catastrophe, but one caused solely by a single species: us.

We speak often of 'destroying the planet' when what we mean is destroying its habitability for humans.

Walking in the mountains helps me unwind, but it also reminds me in a painful way that the real beauty in life is nature and animals, and that the human race, in all its arrogance, is intent on destroying it.

There are parts of the Earth that are covered with pollution all the time. I saw weather that was unexpected. Storms bigger than we've seen in the past. This is a human effect. This is not a natural phenomenon.

I think the environment is the biggest threat mankind has ever faced.

If it's true, as I believe it is, that the planet is alive, then it's probably also true that we may reach a point at which she will begin to defend herself against us.

Year by year, more and more of the world gets disenchanted. Even the icy privacy of the arctic and antarctic circles is invaded. We have played Jack Horner with our earth, till there is never a plum left in it.

The facts are there that we have created, man has, a self-inflicted wound that man has created through global warming.

humanity is a cancer on the body of the world

The abuse of the Earth is the ecological crisis.