Percy Julian Quotes

Mother Nature comes up against reality, and the reality is that the system doesn't work.

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.

I have to bring to your notice a terrifying reality: with the development of nuclear weapons Man has acquired, for the first time in history, the technical means to destroy the whole of civilization in a single act.

This is the reality of nuclear weapons: they may trigger a world war; a war which, unlike previous ones, destroys all of civilization.

To have the ability to destroy all and not to do it was one of the hard tests humanity passed - but only just - in the middle of the twentieth century.

Although September 11 was horrible, it didn't threaten the survival of the human race, like nuclear weapons do.

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

Mother Nature is not sweet.

I would not recommend the use of any atomic weapon, no matter how small, when both sides have the power to destroy the world.

In the real world of real political leaders a decision that would bring even one hydrogen bomb on one city of one's own country would be recognized as a catastrophic blunder.

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

If humans pursue a business-as-usual course for the first half of this century, I believe the collapse of civilization due to climate change becomes inevitable.

The combination of human fallibility and nuclear weapons can destroy nations.

If an unfriendly nation gets into a position to control the large-scale weather patterns before we can, the result could even be more disastrous than nuclear warfare.

There are two problems for our species' survival - nuclear war and environmental catastrophe - and we're hurtling towards them. Knowingly.

I felt proud that the baby's first real adventure should be as a protest against the insanity of world annihilation. Already a certain percentage of unborn children are doomed by fallout, and no one knows the cumulative effects of what is already poisoning the air and sea.

We hope that as a species we're capable of dealing with environmental catastrophe before it actually does collectively kill most of us.

The world's deteriorating ecology poses as great a danger to mankind today as did the nuclear standoff between the superpowers at the height of the Cold War.

Climate change is not the fault of man. It's Mother Nature's way. And sucking greenhouse gases from the atmosphere is too limited a solution. We have to be prepared for fire or ice, for fry or freeze. We have to be prepared for change.

People need to be cautious because anything built by man can be destroyed by Mother Nature.

That's the thing about Mother Nature, she really doesn't care what economic bracket you're in.

It was once religion which threatened us with a last judgment at the end of days. It is now our tortured planet which predicts the arrival of such a day without any heavenly intervention.

Even with the best intentions, you can have a nuclear war, a nuclear holocaust, through miscalculation, through accidents.

Nature is the worst terrorist you can imagine.

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.