John Drinkwater Quotes

Ignorance, hatred and greed are killing nature.

Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end by destroying the earth.

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

Because we're not in harmony with the environment, we're destroying the environment that supports us.

We won't have a society if we destroy the environment.

Fracking kills, and it doesn't just kill us. It kills the land, nature and, eventually, the whole world.

We are a plague on the Earth.

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

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

The damage done in one year can sometimes take ten or twenty years to repair.

Shrimp farms are a scourge on the earth, frankly, from an environmental point of view. They pour huge amounts of pollutants into the ocean. They also pollute their next-door neighbors.

The bulldozer and not the atomic bomb may turn out to be the most destructive invention of the 20th century

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

We're in a war, the war of industrial civilization against the natural world.

The coal industry held the title deed to the future and devoured the land, people, and culture with a Satanic appetite.

Walking in the mountains helps me unwind, but it also reminds me in a painful way that the real beauty in life is nature and animals, and that the human race, in all its arrogance, is intent on destroying it.

This planet is our home and we're trashing and killing it.

The mission of men there seems to be, like so many busy demons, to drive the forest all out of the country, from every solitary beaver swamp and mountain-side, as soon as possible.

I believe until fairly recently our destructions of nature were more or less unwitting -- the by-products, so to speak, of our ignorance or weakness or depravity. It is our present principled and elaborately rationalized rape and plunder of the natural world that is a new thing under the sun.

You wouldn't think you could kill an ocean, would you? But we'll do it one day. That's how negligent we are.

I think it was a realization of this cancer, an understanding of the broader implications of what cancer is. The greed, the ravaging of lands and seas for profit, the taking of things that don't belong to us; what we've done to the environment in this fast-paced, careless hunger. I think all of that was happening in my body.

I wanted to destroy everything beautiful I'd never have. Burn the Amazon rain forests. Pump chlorofluorocarbons straight up to gobble the ozone. Open the dump valves on supertankers and uncap offshore oil wells. I wanted to kill all the fish I couldn't afford to eat, and smother the French beaches I'd never see. I wanted the whole world to hit bottom.

What about this overcrowded land/How much more abuse from man can she stand?

We earth men have a talent for ruining big, beautiful things.

How can you expect the birds to sing when their groves are cut down?