Alice Walker Quotes

Only when the last tree has withered, and the last fish caught, and the last river been poisoned, will we realize we cannot eat money.

The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.

We can not have equilibrium in this world with the current inequality and destruction of Mother Earth. Capitalism is what is causing this problem and it needs to end.

We are in danger of destroying ourselves by our greed and stupidity. We cannot remain looking inwards at ourselves on a small and increasingly polluted and overcrowded planet.

I think all the garbage in the world is thanks to a very small handful of idiots.

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

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

what man calls civilizationalways results in desertsman is never on the squarehe uses up the fat and greenery of the eartheach generation wastes a little moreof the future with greed and lust for riches

The only engine big enough to impact Mother Nature is Father Greed.

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

Ignorance, hatred and greed are killing nature.

If we destroy the biosphere, then mankind will die. We all waste our time worrying about stupid wars and petty jealousy and greed, and all the time, we're sitting on a time bomb.

We are a plague on the Earth.

I don't think we're crumbling as a civilization, but this is not our finest hour, and it's good to be mindful that we're all susceptible to fall and to look at what are the earmarks of a civilization on the wane. What are they - destruction of the environment? Conspicuous consumption? Heard of those?

The truth is that our race survived ignorance; it is our scientific genius that will do us in.

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

The planet's biggest problems have to do with sustainability, environmental decline, global poverty, disease, conflict and so forth. Really, they're all interconnected - it's one big problem, which is that the way we're doing things can't go on.

Just think: in all the clean, beautiful reaches of the solar system, our planet alone is a blot; our planet alone has death.

I think that thing about the destruction of the world is there all the time, it's there every day when we look out the window.

We're in a war, the war of industrial civilization against the natural world.

Man's power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its instrument.

Water does tend to flow up hill toward money and power.

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

The world no longer permits the stronger to kill the weaker, but it allows the wealthy to oppress the poor. Money is holier than man. Human life is less sacred than property. To save a dollar is regarded as a more necessary virtue than to save a human heart. Society cares more for fortune than for truth.

You only have to ask yourself, "What would happen if the entire population of India and China had two-car garages and were living at the technological and the economic standard that the American middle class is today?" The planet would become very rapidly uninhabitable.