Lydia Millet Quotes

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

The reason that I keep writing is that all my most powerful messages about the fates of wild places that I care about need to have words as well as images.

I think the greatest challenge in environmentalism and the most rewarding challenge is trying to figure out how humans can meet their needs while protecting the environment.

The images of Earth's delicate biosphere, contrasting with the sterile moonscape where the astronauts left their footsteps, have become iconic for environmentalists: these may indeed be the Apollo programme's most enduring legacy.

That's the thing about Mother Nature, she really doesn't care what economic bracket you're in.

Address these environmental issues and you will address every issue known to man. And we keep dabbling in things that aren't really that important in the long term.

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

Mother Nature comes up against reality, and the reality is that the system doesn't work.

Every once in a while, I get mad. 'The Lorax' came out of my being angry. The ecology books I'd read were dull... In 'The Lorax,' I was out to attack what I think are evil things and let the chips fall where they might.

I do believe very strongly that all of us and all of the other things in the context of our planet with Mother Nature, all of these things absolutely have a profound effect.

Mother Nature is not sweet.

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.

Earth was not built to serve the needs of humans.

To waste, to destroy, our natural resources, to skin and exhaust the land instead of using it so as to increase its usefulness, will result in undermining in the days of our children the very prosperity which we ought by right to hand down to them amplified and developed.

For him nature is basically a golf course or a ranch--or a national park turned into a country club where folks can burn off stress by speeding over the snow while polluting the air of Yellowstone with gas-guzzling skidoos.

In the long term the economy and the environment are the same thing. If it is unenvironmental it is uneconomical. That is a rule of nature.

Man's war against nature is a war against himself.

The environment is more than just nature. The environment is peoples needs.

The oldest task in human history: to live on a piece of land without spoiling it..

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

Nature is simply the environment on earth in which man finds himself, and to treat it as a separate being in the image of man is sheer nonsense.

We must use the wrath of nature as our teacher.

I became an environmentalist because I love the living world, but I spend much of my life thinking about electricity, industrial processes and civil engineering.

The potential in many environmental issues is that if you undertake corrective action without appropriate understanding of the problem, then you wind up doing more harm than good.

Environment is of supreme importance. It is greater than will power.