The nation that destroys its soil destroys itself.
Waste brings woe, and sorrow hates despair.
Racism is a problem, economic inequality is a problem, not enough rock n' roll on the radio is a problem. But all those problems will become insignificant when the oceans rise in a way that threatens organised human activity.
If it's wrong to wreck the planet, it's wrong to profit from the wreckage.
There are two problems for our species' survival - nuclear war and environmental catastrophe - and we're hurtling towards them. Knowingly.
I really wonder what gives us the right to wreck this poor planet of ours.
Wilderness is harder and harder to find these days on this beautiful planet, and we're abusing our planet to the point of almost no return.
The tragedy is that there is so much more incentive - money - to destroy the ecology than there is to preserve it.
Nature has been taken over by thugs who care absolutely nothing about it. We need to take nature back.
When human beings lose their connection to nature, to heaven and earth, then they do not know how to nurture their environmect or how to rule their world - which is saying the same thing. Human beings destroy their ecology at the same time that they destroy one another. From that perspective, healing our society goes hand in hand with healing our personal, elemental connection with the phenomenal world.
There is hardly a place on Earth where people do not log, pave, spray, drain, flood, graze, fish, plow, burn, drill, spill or dump. There is no life zone, with the possible exception of the deep ocean, that we are not degrading.
Anybody who doesn't see the impact of climate change is really, I would say, myopic. They don't see the reality. It's so evident that we are destroying Mother Earth. This is not the problem of one country or a few countries: it is the problem of mankind. We need to work together to stop this. Otherwise, our future generations will simply disappear.
. . . the upsurge of Spirit is the only plausible way to stop the ecological destruction of our planet. Even people who have no interest in a communal solution to the distortions in our lives will have to face up [to] this ecological reality. Unless we transform our relationship with nature, we will destroy the preconditions for human life on this planet.
Living wild species are like a library of books still unread. Our heedless destruction of them is akin to burning the library without ever having read its books.
If a person kills a tree before its time, it is like having murdered a soul.-Rabbi Nachman
What sucks the worst is . . . this world was a gift to us, and we broke it, and part of the deal is that if we want things right, we have to fix it ourselves. But we can't. We try, but we can't.
The world, which God looked at and found entirely good, we find none too good to pollute entirely and destroy piecemeal.
Erosion, desertification, and pollution have become our lot. It is a weird form of suicide, for we are bleeding our planet to death.
Capitalism is destroying Mother Earth, and to destroy Mother Earth is to destroy humanity.
Any fine morning, a power saw can fell a tree that took a thousand years to grow.
When asked if I am pessimistic or optimistic about the future, my answer is always the same: If you look at the science about what is happening on Earth and aren't pessimistic, you don't understand the data.
Do we hate paradise so much we need to make sure it becomes a trash heap?
Humans are the absolute worst thing to happen to this planet.
Mankind is considered (by the radical environmentalists) the lowest and the meanest of all species and is blamed for everything.
I could die in peace, I think, if the world was beautiful. To know it's being ruined is hard.
