Quote - Aphorism - Proverb
|
info
|
This is a beautiful planet and not at all fragile. Earth can withstand significant volcanic eruptions, tectonic cataclysms, and ice ages. But this canny, intelligent, prolific, and extremely self-centered human creature had proven himself capable of more destruction of life than Mother Nature herself.... We've got to be stopped.
Category: Environment Author: Michael L Fischer
|
0 Give your vote +5
| |
|
comments
|
To live a pure unselfish life, one must count nothing as one's own in the midst of abundance.
Category: Environment Author: Buddha
|
0 Give your vote +5
| |
|
comments
|
To waste, to destroy our natural resources, to skin and exhaust the land instead of using it so as to increase its usefulness, will result in undermining in the days of our children the very prosperity which we ought by right to hand down to them amplified and developed.
Category: Environment Author: Theodore Roosevelt
|
0 Give your vote +5
| |
|
comments
|
Today's world is one in which the age-old risks of humankind - the drought, floods, communicable diseases - are less of a problem than ever before. They have been replaced by risks of humanity's own making - the unintended side-effects of beneficial technologies and the intended effects of the technologies of war. Society must hope that the world's ability to assess and manage risks will keep pace with its ability to create them.
Category: Environment Author: J Clarence Davies
|
0 Give your vote +5
| |
|
comments
|
Living in the midst of abundance we have the greatest difficulty in seeing that the supply of natural wealth is limited and that the constant increase of population is destined to reduce the American standard of living unless we deal more sanely with our resources.
Category: Environment Author: W H Carothers
|
0 Give your vote +5
| |
|
comments
|
We have always had reluctance to see a tract of land which is empty of men as anything but a void. The "waste howling wilderness" of Deuteronomy is typical. The Oxford Dictionary defines wilderness as wild or uncultivated land which is occupied "only" by wild animals. Places not used by us are "wastes." Areas not occupied by us are "desolate." Could the desolation be in the soul of man?
Category: Environment Author: John A Livingston
|
0 Give your vote +5
| |
|
comments
|
We must not be forced to explore the universe in search of a new home because we have made the Earth inhospitable, even uninhabitable. For if we do not solve the environmental and related social problems that beset us on Earth - pollution, toxic contamination, resource depletion, prejudice, poverty, hunger - those problems will surely accompany us to other worlds.
Category: Environment Author: Donald G Kaufman
|
0 Give your vote +5
| |
|
comments
|
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.
Category: Environment Author: Edward Abbey
|
0 Give your vote +5
| |
|
comments
|
We shall continue to have a worsening ecologic crisis until we reject the Christian axiom that nature has no reason for existence save to serve man.
Category: Environment Author: Lynn White
|
0 Give your vote +5
| |
|
comments
|
We're finally going to get the bill for the Industrial Age. If the projections are right, it's going to be a big one: the ecological collapse of the planet.
Category: Environment Author: Jeremy Rifkin
|
0 Give your vote +5
| |
|
comments
|
Western society has accepted as unquestionable a technological imperative that is quite as arbitrary as the most primitive taboo: not merely the duty to foster invention and constantly to create technological novelties, but equally the duty to surrender to these novelties unconditionally, just because they are offered, without respect to their human consequences.
Category: Environment Author: Lewis Mumford
|
0 Give your vote +5
| |
|
comments
|
When some high-sounding institute states that a compound is harmless or a process free of risk, it is wise to know whence the institute or the scientists who work there obtain their financial support.
Category: Environment Source: Lancet
|
0 Give your vote +5
| |
|
comments
|
When we Indians kill meat, we eat it all up.... When we build houses, we make little holes. When we burn grass for grasshoppers, we don't ruin things. We shake down acorns and pinenuts. We don't chop down the trees.
Category: Environment Author: Wintu Indian
|
0 Give your vote +5
| |
|
comments
|
With laissez-faire and price atomic,
Ecology's Uneconomic,
But with another kind of logic
Economy's Unecologic.
Category: Environment Author: Kenneth E Boulding
|
0 Give your vote +5
| |
|
comments
|
Worldwide practice of Conservation and the fair and continued access by all nations to the resources they need are the two indispensable foundations of continuous plenty and of permanent peace.
Category: Environment Author: Gifford Pinchot
|
0 Give your vote +5
| |
|
comments
|
You go into a community and they will vote 80 percent to 20 percent in favor of a tougher Clean Air Act, but if you ask them to devote 20 minutes a year to having their car emissions inspected, they will vote 80 to 20 against it. We are a long way in this country from taking individual responsibility for the environmental problem.
Category: Environment Author: William D Ruckelshaus
|
0 Give your vote +5
| |
|
comments
|
Loyd: "It has to do with keeping things in balance. It's like the spirits have made a deal with us. We're on our own. The spirits have been good enough to let us live here and use the utilities, and we're saying: We know how nice you're being. We appreciate the rain, we appreciate the sun, we appreciate the deer we took. Sorry if we messed up anything. You've gone to a lot of trouble, and we'll try to be good guests."
Codi: "Like a note you'd send somebody after you'd stayed in their house?"
Loyd: "Exactly like that. 'Thanks for letting me sleep on your couch. I took some beer out of the refrigerator, and I broke a coffee cup. Sorry, I hope it wasn't your favorite one.'"
Category: Environment Author: Barbara Kingsolver
|
0 Give your vote +5
| |
|
comments
|
To people who think of themselves as God's houseguests, American enterprise must seem arrogant beyond belief. Or stupid. A nation of amnesiacs, proceeding as if there were no other day but today. Assuming the land could also forget what had been done to it.
Category: Environment Author: Barbara Kingsolver
|
0 Give your vote +5
| |
|
comments
|
In an underdeveloped country, don't drink the water; in a developed country, don't breathe the air.
Category: Environment Source: Changing Times magazine
|
0 Give your vote +5
| |
|
comments
|
