Man will survive as a species for one reason: he can adapt to the destructive effects of our power-intoxicated technology and of our ungoverned population growth; to the dirt, pollution, and noise of a New York or Tokyo. And that is the tragedy. It is not man the ecological crisis threatens to destroy but the quality of human life. —René Dubos More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The earth we abuse and the living things we kill will, in the end, take their revenge; for in exploiting their presence we are diminishing our future. —Marya Mannes More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
There are three kinds of people: The ones who learn by reading. The ones who learn by observation. And the rest, who have to pee on the electric fence for themselves. —Unknown More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
When industrial pollutants finally make the air unbreathable, we will be advised to cover the cities over with plastic domes and air-condition them. Technological optimism is the snake oil of urban industrialism. —Theodore Roszak More about this quote Tags: air breathing pollution domes Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
We call that species most successful that has made its own kind its worst enemy. —Garrett Hardin More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fools. —John Muir More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Increasingly, the world around us looks as if we hated it. —Alan Watts More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
As crude a weapon as the cave man's club, the chemical barrage has been hurled against the fabric of life — a fabric on the one hand delicate and destructible, on the other miraculously tough and resilient, and capable of striking back in unexpected ways. —Rachel Carson More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
When it comes down to it, would you really choose economics over environment? Where will you be when there is no clean air or water? Screw economics. I want to live. —Clara Price More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Give a man a fish, and he can eat for a day. But teach a man how to fish, and he'll be dead of mercury poisoning inside of three years. —Charles N. Haas More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
How strange and wonderful is our home, our earth, with its swirling vaporous atmosphere, its flowing and frozen liquids, its trembling plants, its creeping, crawling, climbing creatures, the croaking things with wings that hang on rocks and soar through the fog, the furry grass, the scaly seas. —Edward Abbey More about this quote Tags: wonder animals earth plants bird fog sea Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
To halt the decline of an ecosystem, it is necessary to think like an ecosystem. —Douglas P. Wheeler More about this quote Tags: nature ecosystem preservation Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
In New England they once thought blackbirds useless, and mischievous to the corn. They made efforts to destroy them. The consequence was, the blackbirds were diminished; but a kind of worm, which devoured their grass, and which the blackbirds used to feed on, increased prodigiously; then, finding their loss in grass much greater than their saving in corn, they wished again for their blackbirds. —Benjamin Franklin More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
To be angry at people means that one considers their acts to be important. It is imperative to cease to feel that way. The acts of men cannot be important enough to offset our only viable alternative: our unchangeable encounter with infinity. —Carlos Castaneda More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
If we learn to open our hearts, anyone, including the people who drive us crazy, can be our teacher. —Pema Chödrön More about this quote Tags: others learning heart openness Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email