Dean Koontz Quotes

Man has no ability to repair this damaged planet. The flaw in human nature is too great. God is our only hope!

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

On my 70th birthday, I was asked how I felt about mankind's prospects. This is my reply: We are behaving like yeasts in a brewer's vat, multiplying mindlessly while greedily consuming the substance of a finite world. If we continue to imitate the yeasts, we will perish as they perish, having exhausted our resources and poisoned ourselves in the lethal brew of our own wastes. Unlike the yeasts, we have a choice. What will it be?

I originally set out to try and save the world, but now I'm not sure I like it enough.

humanity is a cancer on the body of the world

One of the penalties of an ecological education is that one lives alone in a world of wounds.

Those of us who witness the degraded state of the environment and the suffering that comes with it cannot afford to be complacent. We continue to be restless. If we really carry the burden, we are driven to action. We cannot tire or give up. We owe it to the present and future generations of all species to rise up and walk!

Most of the news about the state of the environment is pretty ugly. This is frightening for me personally, but actually motivational for me artistically.

We live in a world that is cruel to the earth itself. Man is a biological terrorist.

My basic political posture is "what a shame the human race did this to earth." What we have done environmentally, politically, culturally.

Giving up is not an option if we want to prevent irreparable harm to our planet.

I feel a desperation to make people see what we are doing to the environment, what a mess we are making of our world. At this point, the more people I reach, the more I accomplish. ... I miss Gombe and my wonderful years in the forest But if I were to go back to that, I wouldn't feel I was doing what I should be doing.

What about our refusal to look squarely at the degradation of the planet we inhabit? In the last election cycle many candidates refused even to acknowledge the hard science, irrefutable science, of climate change. The president, while readily accepting the facts, has done far too little to alter them. How long are we, are you, prepared to wait?

We human beings are not only the beneficiaries but also the stewards of other creatures. Thanks to our bodies, God has joined us so closely to the world around us that we can feel the desertification of the soil almost as a physical ailment, and the extinction of a species as a painful disfigurement. Let us not leave in our wake a swatch of destruction and death which will affect our own lives and those of future generations.

The world, which God looked at and found entirely good, we find none too good to pollute entirely and destroy piecemeal.

We create the world in which we live; if that world becomes unfit for human life, it is because we tire of our responsibility.

Destruction of the environment is not only rational; it's exactly what you're taught to do in college.

Nature has been taken over by thugs who care absolutely nothing about it. We need to take nature back.

Our environmental problems originate in the hubris of imagining ourselves as the central nervous system or the brain of nature. We're not the brain, we are a cancer on nature.

What we are doing is deeply unfair and a profound tragedy - what we're doing in the way of global warming, what we're doing to the oceans - and none of it makes any sense to me.

People can't live with themselves much longer. The planet cannot live with humans much longer! We have the weaponry, destruction of the planet, pollution, destruction of forests, countless manifestations of humans using their intelligence in the service of the dysfunction, the madness. It's a strange juxtaposition. Humans are intelligent, but if you look at history or even watch TV, they're also incredibly stupid.

I could die in peace, I think, if the world was beautiful. To know it's being ruined is hard.

The degradation of our environment is undeniably a direct result of our lack of regard, lack of accountability, and lack of responsibility.

Much of the economic decay of southeast Asia (as of many other parts of the world) is undoubtedly due to a heedless and shameful neglect of trees.

If I could go back to a point in history to try to get things to come out differently, I would go back and tell moses to go up the mountain again and get the other tablet. Because the Ten Commandments just tell us what we are supped to do with one another, not a word about our relationship to the earth. Genesis starts with these commands: multiply, replenish the earth, and subdue it. We have multiplied very well, we have replenished our populations very well, we have subdued it all too well, and we don't have any other instruction.