Gail Bradbrook Quotes

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.

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

We're not environmentally doing very good things to this planet, and we might not be around too long.

Putting our ecosystem in great peril is certainly not a part of Chinese culture that I know.

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

A fascinating challenge facing today's environmental movement is how to best approach the reversal of past decisions that altered once-pristine environmental spaces for the sake of urgent man-made needs.

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.

That area environmentally is a waste. You can't do anything. I don't care if the Sierra Club goes out there. It is fully polluted! You're not only going to work to clean up the environment, but also you will put people to work.

Right now, we don't have a very good relation with creation.

Over the long haul of life on this planet, it is the ecologists, and not the bookkeepers of business, who are the ultimate accountants.

I like the outdoors and the natural world. Environmental issues.

I wouldn't want anyone to destroy the earth.

I do see a lot of the hard end of ecology, and my feeling is that we live on a super-exciting planet but a super-fragile one.

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

On Earth Day, we celebrate all the gifts the world and nature make available to us. We recognize our complete dependence on its bounty. And we acknowledge the need for good stewardship to preserve its fruits for future generations.

What I have experienced over time is that environmental problems are easier to deal with in ways that don't go into their interconnections to the rest of what we are.

Perhaps the time has come to cease calling it the 'environmentalist' view, as though it were a lobbying effort outside the mainstream of human activity, and to start calling it the real-world view.

People in general romanticize nature, and they make it out to be something that it isn't because humans are so awful. And yes, we are absolutely screwing up this planet, but that is only because we have the capabilities to do so. Animals are not better than us. They are not nicer than us.

A proper respect for nature means that you can't pollute the air, poison the rivers and chop down the forests indiscriminately without suffering greatly.

It is not enough to celebrate the earth and all its inhabitants, we must restore what we have destroyed.

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

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

Our Earth is talking to us, and we must listen to it and decipher its message if we want to survive.

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

We are going to learn how to relate to the Earth and our own natural environment here by looking seriously at space colony ecologies.