“The insufferable arrogance of human beings to think that Nature was made solely for their benefit, as if it was conceivable that the sun had been...
“The human race will be the cancer of the planet.” Julian Huxley, attributed
Such is the audacity of man, that he hath learned to counterfeit Nature, yea, and is so bold as to challenge her in her work. Pliny...
They kill good trees to put out bad newspapers. James G. Watt, quoted in Newsweek 8 March 1982
And Man created the plastic bag and the tin and aluminium can and the cellophane wrapper and the paper plate, and this was good because Man...
When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world. John Muir
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...
Remember when atmospheric contaminants were romantically called stardust? Lane Olinghouse
Because we don’t think about future generations, they will never forget us. Henrik Tikkanen
A human being is part of the whole, called by us ‘universe’, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings...
It wasn’t the Exxon Valdez captain’s driving that caused the Alaskan oil spill. It was yours. Greenpeace advertisement, New York Times, 1990
We never know the worth of water till the well is dry. Thomas Fuller, 1732
You must teach your children that the ground beneath their feet is the ashes of your grandfathers. So that they will respect the land, tell your...
Time and space – time to be alone, space to move about – these may well become the great scarcities of tomorrow. Edwin Way Teale, 1956...
Fifty years ago today, JFK made his seminal “we choose to go to the moon” speech at Rice University. Less than a decade later, Neil Armstrong made “one small...