Sun Ra Quotes

It wont be long now it wont be long man is making deserts of the earth it wont be long now before man will have used it up so that nothing but ants and centipedes and scorpions can find a living on it.

The environmental crisis is a sign that the ecosphere is now so heavily strained that its continued stability is threatened. It is a warning that we must discover the source of this suicidal drive and master it before it destroys the environment-and ourselves.

I don't think the planet can survive people. It's not the other way around. I don't think the planet can survive.

The sad thing about destroying the environment is that we're going to take the rest of life with us. The bluebirds will be gone, and the elephants will be gone, and the tigers will be gone, and the pandas will be gone.

The ground we walk on, the plants and creatures, the clouds above constantly dissolving into new formations - each gift of nature possessing its own radiant energy, bound together by cosmic harmony.

So when you're dealing with an existential threat like death or like climate change, if you see it as 'we are all toast anyway,' then denial is a pretty good way of coping.

What we're doing to the planet is inexcusable.

There is no scientific reason to think that we, even with space travel, are going to survive as a species for ever, certainly not by biting off the hand that feeds us, which is exactly what we are doing.

We are a plague on the Earth.

Earth might one day soon resemble the planet Venus.

Mars once was wet and fertile. It's now bone dry. Something bad happened on Mars. I want to know what happened on Mars so that we may prevent it from happening here on Earth.

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

When the last tree is felled, Christ will return to the Earth.

Any living thing that hopes to live on the earth must fit into the ecosphere or perish.

We have killed off nature, that world entirely independent of us which was here before we arrived and which encircled and supported our human society

When is the proper time to cry wolf. Must we wait until the prey, in this case the world’s environment, is mangled by the wolf’s grip.

We may well blow each other up with atomic weapons before we wipe out all species of life including our own with more gradual means.

Once people realized that, 'Hey, we're going to be left on Earth here, and everything is going to hell quickly,' sci-fi soon became about our own self-destruction.

The planet will get better; it's us that won't be here because we'll destroy the environment.

We need a grownup conversation about why our political economy is killing life on Earth.

We are killing life on Earth, we're in the sixth mass extinction event and it's possible that human beings will go extinct. We're in a culture that doesn't want you to think about that.

There's no question that if we stay on planet Earth and never leave, that eventually we'll be wiped out.

Here we are, the most clever species ever to have lived. So how is it we can destroy the only planet we have?

Burning all the fossil fuels will destroy the planet we know, Creation, the planet of stable climate in which civilization developed.