Michael Berryman Quotes

If man doesn't learn to treat the oceans and the rain forest with respect, man will become extinct.

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

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

This Earth is our only home. Together, we must protect and cherish it.

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.

The nation that destroys its soil destroys itself.

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?

Because the living environment is what really sustains us.

We speak often of 'destroying the planet' when what we mean is destroying its habitability for humans.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

We see an entire planet which has many limitations.

The latest revelation - from no Mount Sinai, Sermon on the Mount or Bo tree - is the outcry of mute things themselves that we must heed by curbing our powers over creation, lest we perish together on a wasteland of what that creation once was.

It's not that hard to imagine the natural world recovering it's health in our absence: it's more difficult, and more necessary, to imagine it recovering its health in our presence.

Traveling is my form of self-education. Every stream I fish now is not as good as it used to be. Traveling is my form of self-education. Every stream I fish now is not as good as it used to be. If you keep your eyes open as you travel around, you realize we are destroying this planet.

If, in our haste to 'progress,' the economics of ecology are disregarded by citizens and policy makers alike, the result will be an ugly America. We cannot afford an America where expedience tramples upon esthetics and development decisions are made with an eye only on the present.

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.