Ed Begley Jr. Quotes

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

The environment has fallen to the wayside in politics.

Even the wealth of the U.S. cannot protect against the levels of environmental destruction that we are unleashing.

In the case of the environment, there's no one to bail it out.

I never lose an opportunity to speak about my obsession: humankind and the environment.

Wouldn't it help Americans more, in the long run, if we were forced to accept some responsibility for the environmental wreckage we prefer to assume is totally out of our control?

Unless we keep this planet healthy, everything else is for naught.

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

Address these environmental issues and you will address every issue known to man. And we keep dabbling in things that aren't really that important in the long term.

Environmental concern is a little like dieting or paying off credit-card debt - an episodically terrific idea that burns brightly and then seems to fade when we realize there's a reason we need to diet or pay down our debt. The reason is that it's really, really hard, and too many of us in too many spheres of life choose the easy over the hard.

The destruction of our environment and resources cannot be stemmed unless the growth of the world's population is stemmed and ultimately reduced.

Too often, people think that solving the world's problems is based on conquering the earth, rather than touching the earth, touching ground.

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

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

Perhaps the time has come to cease calling it the 'environmentalist' view, as though it were a lobbying effort outside the mainstream of human activity, and to start calling it the real-world view.

We must not be the generation responsible for irreversibly damaging the environment. We must hand it over to our children in as near pristine condition as we were lent it from our parents.

In the long term the economy and the environment are the same thing. If it is unenvironmental it is uneconomical. That is a rule of nature.

I do believe this period of the 1980's will be remembered as the time the planet struck back. The planet is telling us we can't treat it this way anymore.

Humanity is consuming the resources of the earth and life in an excessive and disordered way, forgetting the earth's own needs

The earth is the only home that any of us have—so far, anyway.

It is undeniable that the looming environmental crisis is partly the consequence of population growth.

We only have one earth. Let's take care of it.

My main issue is sustainability of the Earth, and protection of those animals and people who dwell here.

It was once religion which told us that we are all sinners because of original sin. It is now the ecology of our planet which pronounces us all to be sinners because of the excessive exploits of human inventiveness.

The planet will adapt to anything. Maybe we should start to use the heart and the brain that we've been given to organize ourselves. Because if we keep screwing up things, we may be just passing by in the history of the planet.