All the money, all the prestige in the world will never make up for the loss of your freedom. — George Monbiot Freedom Copy Share Image
The high seas - in other words, the oceans beyond the 200-mile national limits - are a lawless realm. — George Monbiot Copy Share Image
It doesn't matter how many solar panels you install if you don't simultaneously shut down coal and gas burners. — George Monbiot Climate Copy Share Image
Everyone should be free to learn; knowledge should be disseminated as widely as possible. — George Monbiot Education Copy Share Image
Change arises from conviction. Stop voting in fear. Start voting for hope. — George Monbiot Copy Share Image
Pedestrians and cyclists are squeezed by planners into narrow and often dangerous spaces - the afterthoughts of urban design. — George Monbiot Copy Share Image
Like other lifeforms, we [humans] exist only to replicate ourselves. — George Monbiot Humans Copy Share Image
In motivating people to love and defend the natural world, an ounce of hope is worth a ton of despair — George Monbiot Despair Copy Share Image
As Dutch elm disease spread across Britain in the 1970s, the country fell into mourning. When the sentinel trees that framed our… — George Monbiot Conversation Copy Share Image
The grim truth is that the rich are able to live as they do only because others are poor: there is neither… — George Monbiot Copy Share Image
I do not want to abandon representative democracy. I want to see it balanced by popular sovereignty, especially the variety known as… — George Monbiot Democracy Copy Share Image
If you construct political narratives around the psychodramas of politicians, even when they don't invite it, you open the way for those… — George Monbiot Game Copy Share Image
If I could turn back the clock, magically deleting my prostate cancer, the surgery I needed and its complications, would I do… — George Monbiot Cancer Copy Share Image
On my first night at boarding school, I felt entirely alone. I was shocked, frightened and intensely homesick, but I soon discovered… — George Monbiot Alone Copy Share Image
After my cancer diagnosis this year, I was offered a choice of treatments. I wanted to make an informed decision. This meant… — George Monbiot Cancer diagnosis Copy Share Image
War and pestilence might kill large numbers of people, but in most cases the population recovers. But lose the soil and everything… — George Monbiot Copy Share Image
If we want to prevent both climate and ecological catastrophes, the key task is to minimise the amount of land we use… — George Monbiot Climate Copy Share Image
Food production is ripping the living world apart. Fishing and farming are, by a long way, the greatest cause of extinction and… — George Monbiot Air pollution Copy Share Image
The angry men know that this golden age (of fossil fuels) has gone; but they cannot find the words for the constraints… — George Monbiot Copy Share Image
The schedules are crammed with shows urging us to travel further, drive faster, build bigger, buy more, yet none of them are… — George Monbiot Advertising Copy Share Image
“Confronted with the twin disasters of climate change and an impending oil peak, it is hard to see how anyone could justify… — George Monbiot Change Copy Share Image
Almost all systems of economic thought are premised on the idea of continued economic growth, which would be fine and dandy if… — George Monbiot Business Copy Share Image
The people of each generation perceive the state of the ecosystems they encountered in their childhood as normal and natural. When wildlife… — George Monbiot Animals Copy Share Image
“In managing our transport systems, our governments must constantly negotiate the paradox of mass movement. They must create a system which, for… — George Monbiot Politics Copy Share Image
I could see the point of Brexit if it meant returning power to the people. — George Monbiot Brexit Copy Share Image
While open-access journals have grown rapidly, researchers still have to read the paywalled articles in commercial journals. — George Monbiot Copy Share Image
Almost everywhere, climate change denial now looks as stupid and as unacceptable as Holocaust denial. — George Monbiot Change Copy Share Image
“Those who seek to drag heaven down to earth are destined only to engineer a hell.” — George Monbiot Heaven Copy Share Image
Soil is an almost magical substance, a living system that transforms the materials it encounters. — George Monbiot Encounters Copy Share Image
The Christians stole the winter solstice from the pagans, and capitalism stole it from the Christians. — George Monbiot Atheism Copy Share Image
In politics, almost everywhere we see what looks like the externalisation of psychic wounds or deficits. — George Monbiot Copy Share Image
As a child and young adult, I delighted in being able to identify almost any wild plant or animal. — George Monbiot Animal Copy Share Image
If global warming is not contained, the West will face a choice of a refugee crisis of unimaginable proportions, or direct complicity… — George Monbiot Choices Copy Share Image
Farming and fishing are the major causes of the collapse of both marine and terrestrial ecosystems. Meat - consumed in greater quantities… — George Monbiot Collapse Copy Share Image
If our grazing land was allowed to revert to natural ecosystems, and the land currently used to grow feed for livestock was… — George Monbiot Fruit Copy Share Image
Few people younger than me know that it was once normal to see fields white with mushrooms, or rivers black with eels… — George Monbiot Autumn Copy Share Image
The struggle to save every possible species and ecosystem from the current wave of destruction is worthwhile. One day, perhaps within our… — George Monbiot Day Copy Share Image
As SUVs are higher and heavier, they are more likely to kill the people they hit. Driving an SUV in an urban… — George Monbiot Copy Share Image
Rather than allowing Roma, Travellers and homeless people to be picked off, all those of us who fear the criminalisation of trespass… — George Monbiot Fear Copy Share Image
I have lived long enough to witness the vanishing of wild mammals, butterflies, mayflies, songbirds and fish that I once feared my… — George Monbiot Copy Share Image
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