The difference between animals and humans is that animals change themselves for the environment, but humans change the environment for themselves.
If all mankind were to disappear, the world would regenerate back to the rich state of equilibrium that existed ten thousand years ago. If insects were to vanish, the environment would collapse into chaos.
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.
The more we exploit nature, The more our options are reduced, until we have only one: to fight for survival.
Our modern industrial economy takes a mountain covered with trees, lakes, running streams and transforms it into a mountain of junk, garbage, slime pits, and debris.
A margin of life is developed by Nature for all living things - including man. All life forms obey Nature's demands - except man, who has found ways of ignoring them.
The magnificence of mountains, the serenity of nature - nothing is safe from the idiot marks of man's passing.
I define sustainable history as a durable progressive trajectory in which the quality of life on this planet or other planets is premised on the guarantee of human dignity for all at all times and under all circumstances.
Your conscious mind is the captain and the master of your ship, which represents your body, environment, and all your affairs.
We have modified our environment so radically that we must now modify ourselves to exist in this new environment.
We generate our own environment. We get exactly what we deserve. How can we resent a life we've created ourselves? Who's to blame, who's to credit but us? Who can change it, anytime we wish, but us?
I think the environment should be put in the category of our national security. Defense of our resources is just as important as defense abroad. Otherwise what is there to defend?
Environments are not just containers, but are processes that change the content totally.
Living simply has resulted in us becoming more aware of the environment and the impact we have on it.
It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment.
I think the environment should be put in the category of our national security. Defense of our resources is just as important as defense abroad. Otherwise what is there to defend?
In an underdeveloped country, don't drink the water; in a developed country, don't breathe the air.
The human race will be the cancer of the planet.
We must be certain that the repair to the environment is sufficient to allow wild species to recover and survive.
We must all work together in order to save the environment and the world that we live in from further change.
This fight against drilling in the Arctic Refuge is a fight about our principles. It’s about standing up for our environment, our families and our future, and I won’t give up this fight.
We have to shift our emphasis from economic efficiency and materialism towards a sustainable quality of life and to healing of our society, of our people and our ecological systems.
The struggle to save the global environment is in one way much more difficult than the struggle to vanquish Hitler, for this time the war is with ourselves. We are the enemy, just as we have only ourselves as allies.
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