Destroyed Quote by Anonymous

Humans are selfish, and because of our innate selfishness, I'm very confident that we can overcome any amount of environmental destruction.

— Liu Cixin

Our house is burning and we look elsewhere. Nature, mutilated and over-exploited, can no longer reconstitute itself and we refuse to admit it. Humanity…

— Jacques Chirac

Until every individual feels personally responsible for the careful planning and the preservation of natural resources, the inexorable destruction will go on.

— Eda LeShan

Today, our air, food, water-all are polluted. If we do not stop exploiting nature for our temporary selfish gains, we will destroy the world.

— Mata Amritanandamayi

Environmental degradation is one of the biggest challenges we have. I think a question that we're not asking ourselves is: 'Isn't humanity committing suicide…

— Pope Francis

...so mankind is now trapped by the failure of its energies and by the depletion of those natural resources that men have plundered wantonly.

— Russell Kirk

In the same way that banks succeeded at privatizing the profits and socializing the losses as they led the global economy to the brink…

— Felix Dodds

Unless the human race realizes with a passion and reverence beyond thought or words its inter-being with nature, it will destroy in its greed…

— Andrew Harvey

However destructive may be the policies of the government and the methods and products of the corporations, the root of the problem is always…

— Wendell Berry

It is not man the ecological crisis threatens to destroy but the quality of human life.

— Rene Dubos

The losses of the natural world are our loss, their silence silences something within the human mind.

— Jay Griffiths

We have a situation where we are rich really as a world overall, and yet we have the capacity to destroy ourselves, either through…

— Tony Blair