Rose Bird Quotes

There is something fundamentally wrong in treating the Earth as if it were a business in liquidation.

We have spent the best part of the past century enthusiastically testing the world to utter destruction; not looking closely enough at the long-term impact our actions will have.

If we go on using the Earth uncaringly and without replenishing it, then we are just greedy consumers.

Year by year, more and more of the world gets disenchanted. Even the icy privacy of the arctic and antarctic circles is invaded. We have played Jack Horner with our earth, till there is never a plum left in it.

I am the Lorax! I speak for the trees, Which you seem to be chopping as fast as you please; But I also speak for the brown Barbaloots, Who frolicked and played in their Barbaloot suits, Happily eating Truffula fruits. Now, since you've chopped the trees to the ground There's not enough Truffula fruit to go 'round! And my poor Barbaloots are all feeling the crummies Because they have gas, and no food, in their tummies.

Destruction of the environment is not only rational; it's exactly what you're taught to do in college.

Our environmental problems originate in the hubris of imagining ourselves as the central nervous system or the brain of nature. We're not the brain, we are a cancer on nature.

It seems that every time mankind is given a lot of energy, we go out and wreck something with it.

Like all animals, human beings have always taken what they want from nature. But we are the rogue species. We are unique in our ability to use resources on a scale and at a speed that our fellow species can't.

Fear, separation, hate and anger come from the wrong view that you and the Earth are two separate entities, the Earth is only the environment. You are in the centre, and you want to do something for the Earth in order for you to survive.

Runaway technology, whose only law is profit, has for years poisoned our air, ravaged our soil, stripped our forests bare, and corrupted our water resources

The bulldozer and not the atomic bomb may turn out to be the most destructive invention of the 20th century

We've raped our homelands to maintain our economies.

Man's war against nature is a war against himself.

We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us.

God gave us the earth. We have dominion over the plants, the animals, the seas…. God said “Earth is yours. Take it. Rape it. It’s yours.”

If a man farms his land to the waste of the soil or the tress, he destroys not only his own assets but Nature's assets.

Our biggest moral debt is to the environment. Take-take-take, nothing given back.

As long as we are graceful, appreciative lodgers, the earth remains healthy and wondrous.

We're terrible animals. I think that the Earth's immune system is trying to get rid of us, as well it should.

Our earth is like a child who has grown up without parents, having no one to guide her... Some have attempted to help her but most have simply tried to use her. Humans, who have been given the task to lovingly steer the world, instead plunder her with no consideration, other than their immediate needs. And they give little thought for their own children who will inherit their lack of love. So they use her and abuse her with little consideration and then when she shudders of blows her breath. They are offended and raise their fist at God.

The global industrial economy is the engine for massive environmental degradation and massive human (and nonhuman) impoverishment.

Eventually we'll realize that if we destroy the ecosystem, we destroy ourselves.

A way of life that ever more rapidly depletes the power of the Earth to sustain it and piles up ever more insoluble problems for each succeeding generation can only be called violent.