Fay Godwin Quotes

For 200 years we've been conquering nature. Now we're beating it to death.

We've raped our homelands to maintain our economies.

Business is destroying the world, with flair, expertise, and panache.

You know, the environment is fragmenting, and the environment is, in many places, absolutely hideous!

White males are the most responsible for the destruction of human life and environment on the planet today.

We are very fond of blaming the poor for destroying the environment. But often it is the powerful, including governments, that are responsible.

What we're doing to the planet is inexcusable.

I see a lot of damage to Mother Earth. I see water being taken from creeks where water belongs to animals, not to oil companies.

Civilization... wrecks the planet from seafloor to stratosphere.

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.

The white man is destroying the world.

Your armed struggles for profit Have left collars of waste upon My shore,, Currents of debris upon my breast.

The landscape has been so transformed by ignorance, arrogance and greed that those who must prove their case are not those who call for forest protection, but those who call for business as usual.

No-one wants polluted air, water or land, denuded forests or extinct animal species. But the error most people make is to trust the legislature to prevent these tragedies. What they don’t realize is how big a role the legislature has played historically in causing environmental destruction.

Strip mining is man’s thorough and total assault upon his planet.

Many of the environmental rules not only fail to protect the natural environment, they actually increase the damage.

They're still building and testing / But what can we do / Condemning the seas and the land and the trees to a tomb

It wont be long now it wont be long man is making deserts of the earth it wont be long now before man will have used it up so that nothing but ants and centipedes and scorpions can find a living on it.

The Earth is not dying-it is being killed. And the people who are killing it have names and addresses.

Russian forests crash down under the axe, billions of trees are dying, the habitations of animals and birds are laid waste, rivers grow shallow and dry up, marvelous landscapes are disappearing forever.... Man is endowed with creativity in order to multiply that which has been given him; he has not created, but destroyed. There are fewer and fewer forests, rivers are drying up, wildlife has become extinct, the climate is ruined, and the earth is becoming ever poorer and uglier.

Imagine if Congress always put the interests of polluters ahead of the health of our families. Our rivers and lakes would be choked with sewage. Acid rain would pour down from smog-filled skies. Hundreds of thousands more of our neighbors, friends, and loved ones would be victims of cancer, heart disease, and asthma.

Thanks to farm subsidies, the fine collaboration between agribusiness and Congress, soy, corn and cattle became king. And chicken soon joined them on the throne. It was during this period that the cycle of dietary and planetary destruction began, the thing we're only realizing just now.

I don't think the planet can survive people. It's not the other way around. I don't think the planet can survive.

We've got to search back to our last known safe landmark. I can't say exactly where, but I think it's back there at the start of the Industrial Revolution, we began applying energy in vast amounts to tools with which we began tearing the environment apart.

Ignorance, hatred and greed are killing nature.