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
I could see the point of Brexit if it meant returning power to the people. — George Monbiot Brexit 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
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
Regardless of what we consume, the sheer volume of consumption is overwhelming the Earth's living systems. — George Monbiot Consumption Copy Share Image
There is plenty of housing - for the rich. But a series of outrageous policies ensure that it remains inaccessible to the… — George Monbiot Housing Copy Share Image
It does not matter whether we burn fossil fuels with malice or with love. As far as the atmosphere is concerned, it… — George Monbiot Copy Share Image
Economic growth is the aggregate effect of the quest to accumulate capital and extract profit. Capitalism collapses without growth, yet perpetual growth… — George Monbiot Adventure 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
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
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
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
Even when nuclear power plants go horribly wrong, they do less damage to the planet and its people than coal-burning stations operating… — George Monbiot 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
Acknowledging our love for the living world does something that a library full of papers on sustainable development and ecosystem services cannot:… — George Monbiot Belief Copy Share Image
There's nothing good about ash dieback, but there is one useful thing that could be done: wherever possible, leave the dead trees… — George Monbiot Dead trees Copy Share Image
The justification for early boarding is based on a massive but common misconception. Because physical hardship in childhood makes you physically tough,… — George Monbiot Childhood Copy Share Image
If you or I had lived 500 years ago, our worldview, and the decisions we made as a result, would have been… — George Monbiot Belief Copy Share Image
“The problem with gross domestic product is the gross bit. There are no deductions involved: all economic activity is accounted as if… — George Monbiot Economics Copy Share Image
Wildlife film-makers I know tell me that the effort to portray what looks like an untouched ecosystem becomes harder every year. They… — George Monbiot Animals Copy Share Image
I believe that anyone who wants to stand in a national election should receive a course of psychotherapy. Completing the course should… — George Monbiot Copy Share Image
I might find myself standing, transfixed, by the roadside, watching a sparrowhawk hunting among the bushes, astonished that other people could ignore… — George Monbiot Copy Share Image
Successful movements also need an organisational model that allows them to keep growing. — George Monbiot Copy Share Image
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
If wealth was the inevitable result of hard work and enterprise, every woman in Africa would be a millionaire. — George Monbiot Business Copy Share Image
Immense wealth translates automatically into immense environmental impacts, regardless of the intentions of those who possess it. — George Monbiot Environmental Copy Share Image
The ideology of consumption is so prevalent that it has become invisible: it is the plastic soup in which we swim. — George Monbiot Consumption Copy Share Image
Those who consume far more resources than they require destroy the life chances of those whose survival depends upon consuming more — George Monbiot Chance Copy Share Image
Technological change is essential, but to a natural historian it often feels cold and distancing. — George Monbiot Change 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
Deregulation is a transfer of power from the trodden to the treading. It is unsurprising that all conservative parties claim to hate… — George Monbiot Big government Copy Share Image
For some of Britain's most powerful people, hunting and shooting are primordial rights, and any challenge to them is treated as illegitimate.… — George Monbiot Hunting 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
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
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
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
