American Quote by Alex Steffen

This planet is our home and we're trashing and killing it.

— Claudia Black

We develop our beautiful planet in such a way that we brush aside the species... we risk creating a wasteland, where our aspirations will…

— Queen Noor of Jordan

We have plenty of technologies we could use to destroy the planet, and we don't. There's more love on this planet than hate; there's…

— Dan Brown

What I know for sure is that behind every catastrophe, there are great lessons to be learned. Among the many that we as a…

— Oprah Winfrey

“American cities are like badger holes, ringed with trash -- all of them -- surrounded by piles of wrecked and rusting automobiles, and almost…

— John Steinbeck

We Americans tend to be a prodigal lot. We are as careless with our personal resources as we are with the resources of nature,…

— Catherine Crook de Camp

We're not going to persuade people in the developing world to go without, but neither can we afford a planet on which everyone lives…

— Alex Steffen

If we're going to save the planet, people are going to have to live in ways that don't require so much energy and don't…

— Carol Ross Barney

People are always saying bad things about them, but really they think they're just trying to clean up our planet. I'm not saying it's…

— Zach Braff

Quite honestly, if we do manage to destroy the planet with our devil-may-care attitude to natural resources, I'd suggest we leave, as a dossier…

— Mariella Frostrup

We speak often of 'destroying the planet' when what we mean is destroying its habitability for humans.

— Lionel Shriver

Put simply, if we do not redirect our extraction and production systems and change the way we distribute, consume, and dispose of our stuff…

— Annie Leonard