David R. Brower Quotes

If the world is presented as resources to be exploited, then, more than likely, you're going to exploit the world.

Everybody knows that the industrialized nations are the worst offenders.

But overall, Obama's record on the environment has been uninspired - and that's putting it kindly. He hasn't stopped coal companies from blowing up mountaintops and devastating large regions of Appalachia.

When it comes to environmental regulation, the cruelty is the point.

It was once religion which told us that we are all sinners because of original sin. It is now the ecology of our planet which pronounces us all to be sinners because of the excessive exploits of human inventiveness.

Like I said, I'm more worried long term about the environmental issues then the use of arms.

Information from destructive activities going back a hundred years right up until today is being incorporated into the system. And as that happens the underlying framework of industrialism is collapsing and causing disintegration.

For too much of history, we've viewed the world's precious resources - both environmental and human - as things to extract, to make the most of in order to maximize their potential.

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

If you don't have an ethic of conservation, you basically have a license to drive a Hummer through the Amazon.

Fundamentally, if you look at where the environmental issues are coming from, it's all because of humans and our impact on the environment, so while it's true that one individual is not going to sufficiently fix the environment, it is a necessary thing.

The coal industry is a huge industry when we're talking about polluting the environment, our air and our waterways.

The truth is, as most of us know, that global warming is real and humans are major contributors, mainly because we wastefully burn fossil fuels.

Unless we practice conservation, those who come after us will have to pay the price of misery, degradation, and failure for the progress and prosperity of our day.

The planet's environmental woes tend to be overlooked as we scramble for the latest high-tech gizmos - and conveniently ignore their energy consumption.

I always get involved with the environment because once you go past the tipping point with the environment, you don't get it back.

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

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

If we continue to address the issue of the environment where we live as though we're the only species that lives here, we'll create a disaster for ourselves.

I have bigger concerns than what pop stars are doing. I'm more concerned about our environment, what industrialists are doing to it.

I watch people throw aluminum cans in the trash, and I think of all the stories I've heard about the over-mining of aluminum, the erosion that happens, and the trees that fall down.

At an ever accelerating rate we are now squandering the capital of metallic ores and fossil fuels accumulated in the earth’s crust during hundreds of millions of years. How long can this spending spree go on?

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

We feel that the road to technology.... has led modern society to a damaged and seared earth

What turned me into an environmentalist, on my eleventh birthday, was seeing the first strip mine.