Adam Hamilton Quotes

The first line in the first 'Gasland' is: 'I'm not a pessimist. I've always had a great deal of faith in people that we won't succumb to frenzy or rage or greed. That we'll figure out a solution without destroying the things that we love.' I have not lost that sense.

Our conservation laws are based on static ideas about nature—not landscapes that are rapidly changing because of something humans did.

Nature is the mother and the habitat of man, even if sometimes a stepmother and an unfriendly home.

If people think nature is their friend, then they sure don't need an enemy.

If you sort of treat the environment in sort of this mechanical, industrial way that there's a disconnect between man and the environment, it's very easy to treat people that way.

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

I'm very concerned for the future of the earth and its amazing creatures. We've got to be careful and make sure we don't foul our own nest.

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.

The transformation of environment has become the purpose of human life; life seems real only insofar as it deals with things.

I believe in the protection of the environment that supports us all.

We are running ourselves into a damaged earth. But I am optimistic. I believe that we can change; we must change. As a human race, we are very young and quite primitive. The sooner we learn the greatness of humanity the better off we will all be.

The planet does nothing but support us, and we are constantly committing crimes against nature.

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

This air we breathe is precious, and the glaciers helped me understand that and stay focused on that.

Occasionally the state of the planet can knock me off my perky perch.

Now, more than ever, we need nature as a balancing agent.

Mother Nature is not sweet.

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.

I am very concerned about the environment and psychological health of this beautiful planet.

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

Nature does not have the capacity to heal all the wounds that have been inflicted upon it by mankind.

The environment is more than just nature. The environment is peoples needs.

Nature was developed to resist the onslaughts of capitalism, but it's really not a very good defense - rather like resisting a steamroller with a Christmas tree ornament.

If we don't have a planet, we don't have anything.