George Carlin Quotes

The planet will survive. Whether we get to be here and enjoy it, or enjoy life as we've known it, is what's questionable.

Planet Earth is far more resilient than humans and will certainly outlive us.

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.

We shouldn't be saying 'Save the planet'; we should be saying: 'Save viable conditions in which people can live.' That's what we're dealing with here.

My perspective is the Earth will be here. It just may not be habitable to our life form. We get confused. We think we're the center of everything.

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

Throughout all of human history we've enjoyed certain benign circumstances: an envelope of atmosphere, an envelope of temperature. A kind of resilience that if you cut down trees, then they'll grow back. You take fish, they recover. You put stuff into the atmosphere that you know is not good for us, but we can still breathe. We haven't awakened, generally, to the sense of urgency that does exist.

Whether or not I tour forever, I'm not sure. I would love to spend more time living in harmony with nature rather than flying all over the world and contributing to global warming, you know what I mean?

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.

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 don't need a War on Carbon. We need a new prosperity that can be shared by all while still respecting a multitude of real ecological limits - not just atmospheric gas concentrations, but topsoil depth, water supplies, toxic chemical concentrations, and the health of ecosystems, including the diversity of life they depend upon.

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

We see an entire planet which has many limitations.

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

The earth is a fickle place for all life, not least the human project of civilization.

We all live on the same planet, it is our only home, so... we used to rotate crops back in the day and, you know, who cares if you're going to make a profit if everybody's too dead or glowing in the dark to be able to purchase anything.

With so much evidence of depleting natural resources, toxic waste, climate change, irreparable harm to our food chain and rapidly increasing instances of natural disasters, why do we keep perpetuating the problem? Why do we continue marching at the same alarming beat?

Climate change is destroying our path to sustainability. Ours is a world of looming challenges and increasingly limited resources. Sustainable development offers the best chance to adjust our course.

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

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

The Anthropocentic Age - the first age in which humankind is the dominant species on the planet - cuts both ways: it is up to us to destroy or save the planet. We certainly have the ability.

I hardly can sleep. I feel that my target now is really to save Mother Earth for humanity. And it's doable.

I believe as human beings we are out of balance, out of synch with the earth.

I think its time to change and balance the environment and growth. If we don't do that, we're going to suffer a hard landing one day very soon.

It's a war, I think, to save the planet, really, from ourselves.