(55 quotes found)
“Modern Society will find no solution to the ecological problem unless it takes a serious look at its lifestyles.”
Pope John Paul II
“Guns have metamorphosed into cameras in this earnest comedy, the ecology safari, because nature has ceased to be what it always had been , what people needed protection from. Now nature tamed, endangered, mortal , needs to be protected from people.”
Susan Sontag
“We won't have a society if we destroy the environment”
Margaret Mead
“Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end by destroying the earth.”
Albert Schweitzer
“The first law of ecology is that everything is related to everything else.”
Barry Commoner
“Just by being out you're doing your part. It's like recycling. You're doing your part for the environment if you recycle; you're doing your part for the gay movement if you're out.”
Martina Navratilova
“Take what you can use and let the rest go by”
Ken Kesey
“The way you can go to Paris or Beijing and everywhere there's a McDonald's hamburger, this is the ecological quivalent of franchised life-forms. Every place is the same place. Kudzu. Zebra Mussels. Water Hyacinths. Starlings. Burger Kings.The local natives, anything unique gets squeezed out.The only biodiversity we're going to have left is Coke versus Pepsi.We're landscaping the whole world one stupid mistake at a time.”
Chuck Palahniuk
“This we know: the earth does not belong to man, man belongs to the earth. All things are connected like the blood that unites us all. Man did not weave the web of life, he is merely a strand in it. Whatever man does to the web, he does to himself.”
Chief Seattle
“Rainwater cannot not be effectively stored as a result of the worsening ecological system, thus it is urgent to build a forest that will help store rainwater.”
Chen Kaizhi
