Approach Quote by Anonymous

It's hard not to be kind of pessimistic about human beings generally, because we do tend to mess things up. If you just look…

— Bill Bryson

I'm not one of the pessimists who thinks that we're going to destroy the planet. I feel like it's going to evolve into something…

— Rick Owens

We have come to look at our planet as a resource for our species, which is funny when you think that the planet has…

— Marston Bates

Our population and our use of the finite resources of planet Earth are growing exponentially, along with our technical ability to change the environment…

— Stephen Hawking

Humankind has suddenly entered into a brand new relationship with our planet. Unless we quickly and profoundly change the course of our civilization, we…

— Al Gore

I think we suffer from certain alienation. We live on this planet, but we somehow have an idea that we're elevated from it, that…

— Yossi Ghinsberg

I am a possibilist. I believe that humanity is master of its own fate... Before we can change direction, we have to question many…

— Robert Bateman

In the long term, it is desirable that the human race, faced with the prospect of extinction on Earth, should prepare an escape route…

— Paul Johnson

Environmentalists and secular humanists insist that humans will destroy the planet. Corporate capitalists and many religious fundamentalists have no regard for wildlife and nature.…

— Zeena Schreck

I feel strongly that we would all be a lot better off if we were more conscious of how we are treating our earth…

— Stephen Schwartz

I try to be realistic and pragmatic. I have a lot of hope for humanity as a species, but obviously as individuals we can…

— Annalee Newitz

We could overcome the baser aspects of our nature... and give this planet the kind of caretakers it deserves.

— Jon Stewart