Wendell Berry Quotes

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

The planet will adapt to anything. Maybe we should start to use the heart and the brain that we've been given to organize ourselves. Because if we keep screwing up things, we may be just passing by in the history of the planet.

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

Seems you can't outsmart Mother Nature.

Now, more than ever, we need nature as a balancing agent.

Mother Nature is not sweet.

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

The environment, what surrounds you, is so alive and delightful and complex.

Nature is the mother and the habitat of man, even if sometimes a stepmother and an unfriendly home.

The further human society drifts away from nature, the less we understand interdependence.

Unless we keep this planet healthy, everything else is for naught.

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

And I think that the environment is one very strong way to counterbalance the chaotic nature of our life.

I think it's important to be kind to the world before it disappears if we don't take care of it.

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.

We're busily wrecking the chances for future generations at a rapid rate of knots by not recognizing the damage we're doing to the natural environment, bearing in mind that this is the only planet that we know has any life on it.

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.

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

It is not oil or the environment, it is oil and the environment. We are living in the same world. We are not enemies.

I believe the American people care a lot about the environment.

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

The destruction of our environment and resources cannot be stemmed unless the growth of the world's population is stemmed and ultimately reduced.

We are going to inherit the earth; there is not the slightest doubt about that.

So often we talk about saving the planet, but what we really mean is to save the planet the way it is, so we can live here. So that is can sustain us.