Eckhart Tolle Quotes

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

Here we are, arguably the most intelligent being that's ever walked planet Earth, with this extraordinary brain ... and yet we're destroying the only home we have.

An Armageddon is approaching at the beginning of the third millennium. But it is not the cosmic war and fiery collapse of mankind foretold in sacred scripture. It is the wreckage of the planet by an exuberantly plentiful and ingenious humanity.

This is a wonderful planet, and it is being completely destroyed by people who have too much money and power and no empathy.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

The species will continue, whatever apocalypse we manage to unleash. It just won't be much fun to live through.

Science and technology are the keys to both our longevity and our demise. Our entire existence on this planet is a double-edged sword.

The planet isn't going anywhere. We are.

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

Our brain is almost the same as the chimps', but we have language, we have electronic communications, we've put people on the moon - we are immensely more intelligent. And yet: how come the being with the most extraordinary intellect ever is destroying its only planet?

If we blow ourselves up we will do it by misapplication of science; if we manage to keep from blowing ourselves up, it will be through intelligent application of science.

Man has mounted science, and is now run away with. I firmly believe that before many centuries more, science will be the master of men. The engines he will have invented will be beyond his strength to control. Someday science may have the existence of mankind in its power, and the human race commit suicide, by blowing up the world.

I consider myself fundamentally more of an environmentalist than many of the environmental groups. We have to come up with new sources of food, new sources of water, new sources of energy. Trying to ignore leading-edge science and technology as a means of getting there is an ostrich approach of burying your head in the sand.

With science, technology and globalization, man is changing the world faster than his evolution can keep up with the new dangers.

Hour by hour, minute by minute, I make decisions that seem like the right things to do at the time, but which prevent me from reflecting on the most significant, most critical fact in my life: Every day I participate in a system that is weaponizing our big, gorgeous planet against our kids.

In a broader sense, the irony in all of this is the single most necessary element for life to exist, in fact, is killing everything, from our ecosystems to potentially our food supply if we're poisoning fish and the foods that we eat. That is the broader sense.

Once people realized that, 'Hey, we're going to be left on Earth here, and everything is going to hell quickly,' sci-fi soon became about our own self-destruction.

The earth is going to survive, it's the people that aren't.

The planet will get better; it's us that won't be here because we'll destroy the environment.

Walking in the mountains helps me unwind, but it also reminds me in a painful way that the real beauty in life is nature and animals, and that the human race, in all its arrogance, is intent on destroying it.