George Carlin Quotes

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

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

I'm convinced that the earth is much stronger than us.

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

So often we talk about saving the planet, but what we really mean is to save the planet the way it is, so we can live here. So that is can sustain us.

We seem to think we have some control over this planet.

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

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.

Awareness is key. In the absence of information, none of us know what is happening and what could be jeopardizing our health, our water supply, and our planet.

I just feel this is my planet.

We all see that, today, man can destroy the foundation of his existence: his Earth.

If we don't have a planet, we don't have anything.

The strong evidence is that we're running out of space. We're collectively affecting the world's climate. This is due to the still-growing human population and our increase in consumption.

For how many people do you think might yet stand on this planet before the sun grows cold? That's the responsibility we hold in our hands.

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.

You don't live on the Earth you want, you live on the Earth you have.

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.

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.

I think it's important to be kind to the world before it disappears if we don't take care of it.

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.

We're busily wrecking the chances for future generations at a rapid rate of knots by not recognizing the damage we're doing to the natural environment, bearing in mind that this is the only planet that we know has any life on it.

Genetic design is something we can use to fight the lack of sustainability we humans are forcing on the earth's environment.

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