Anohni Quotes

I want to interpret the natural world and our links to it. It's driven by the belief of many world-class scientists that we're in the midst of an extinction crisis... This time it's us that's doing it.

I really wonder what gives us the right to wreck this poor planet of ours.

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

The Anthropocentic Age - the first age in which humankind is the dominant species on the planet - cuts both ways: it is up to us to destroy or save the planet. We certainly have the ability.

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

You can print money to bail out a bank, but you can't print life to bail out a planet.

The future will either be green or not at all.

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.

We the undersigned, senior members of the world's scientific community, hereby warn all humanity of what lies ahead. A great change in our stewardship of the earth and the life on it is required, if vast human misery is to be avoided and our global home on this planet is not to be irretrievably mutilated.

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.

We must act swiftly in order to halt the rate of decay our planet faces.

If we pollute the air, water and soil that keep us alive and well, and destroy the biodiversity that allows natural systems to function, no amount of money will save us.

We have the world to live in on the condition that we will take good care of it. And to take good care of it, we have to know it. And to know it and to be willing to take care of it, we have to love 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. Because the planet doesn't need to be saved. It doesn't care if all the squirrels, elephants, and trees die and there's just a couple of amoebas floating around at the poles.

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

All the conservation efforts in the world won't be enough to make a dent in the oncoming sustainability crisis our planet faces.

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.

The environmental crisis is a global problem, and only global action will resolve it.

Not all is doom and gloom. We are beginning to understand the natural world and are gaining a reverence for life - all life.

We are using resources as if we had two planets, not one. There can be no 'plan B' because there is no 'planet B.'

I hardly can sleep. I feel that my target now is really to save Mother Earth for humanity. And it's doable.

I think its time to change and balance the environment and growth. If we don't do that, we're going to suffer a hard landing one day very soon.

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

There are real and growing dangers to our simple and most precious possessions: the air we breathe, the water we bring, and the land which sustains us.... If we do not act, the world of the year 2000 will be much less able to sustain life than it is now.

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