Till now man has been up against Nature; from now on he will be up against his own nature.
The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us, the less taste we shall have for destruction.
Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them.
God cannot save them from fools.
It is a curious situation that the sea, from which life first arose, should now be threatened by the activities of one form of that life. But the sea, though changed in a sinister way, will continue to exist: the threat is rather to life itself.
All things are bound together. All things connect.
A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe; a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts, and his feelings as something separate from the rest - a kind of optical delusion of consciousness.
Our children may save us if they are taught to care properly for the planet; but if not, it may be back to the Ice Age or the caves from where we first emerged. Then we'll have to view the universe above from a cold, dark place. No more jet skis, nuclear weapons, plastic crap, broken pay phones, drugs, cars, waffle irons, or television. Come to think of it, that might not be a bad idea.
Economic advance is not the same thing as human progress.
We could have saved the earth, but we were too damned cheap.
I've gone where the hand of man has never set foot.
A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feeling as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.
Nature provides exceptions to every rule.
The famous balance of nature is the most extraordinary of all cybernetic systems. Left to itself, it is always self-regulated.
We owe our lives to the sun... How is it, then, that we feel no gratitude?
We experience ourselves our thoughts and feelings as something separate from the rest. A kind of optical delusion of consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us.
Your grandchildren will likely find it incredible - or even sinful - that you burned up a gallon of gasoline to fetch a pack of cigarettes!
When a man says to me, "I have the intensest love of nature," at once I know that he has none.
Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts.
Environmentally friendly cars will soon cease to be an option...they will become a necessity.
Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.
There is nothing in which the birds differ more from man than the way in which they can build and yet leave a landscape as it was before.
The earth has a skin and that skin has diseases; one of its diseases is called man.
There is a sufficiency in the world for man's need but not for man's greed.
We won't have a society if we destroy the environment.
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