Natural resources Quote by Barry Gardiner

“Environmentalists like to say that defeats are permanent, victories temporary. Extinction, like death, is forever, but protection needs to be maintained. But now, in…

— Rebecca Solnit

The people of each generation perceive the state of the ecosystems they encountered in their childhood as normal and natural. When wildlife is depleted,…

— George Monbiot

Indeed, as we begin the twenty-first century, the money and traditional economies are slowly destroying their own support system. Increasing demands of the two…

— Stuart L. Hart

Agriculture has become essential to life; the forest, the lake, and the ocean cannot sustain the increasing family of man; population declines with a…

— Elias Hasket Derby

All nations are degrading and consuming their environment to a point beyond capacity. In the past 15 years in the U.S. we have added…

— Gaylord Nelson

The essential role of the environment is still marginal in discussions about poverty. While we continue to debate these initiatives, environmental degradation, including the…

— Wangari Maathai

As species are exterminated by shifting climate zones, ecosystems can collapse, destroying more species.

— James Hansen

Wealth and vegetation go together, and that exacerbates environmental injustice. The poor bear the burden of degraded environments.

— Natalie Jeremijenko

“When I’m critical of modern approaches to ecology, I’m really trying to remind my reader of the long relationship that Western civilization has had…

— Robert Pogue Harrison

Loss of natural areas threatens our water supply, national security, farms, and health.

— Deb Haaland

The development of civilization and industry in general has always shown itself so active in the destruction of forests that everything that has been…

— Karl Marx

Humans have changed ecosystems more rapidly and extensively than in any comparable period of time in human history, largely to meet rapidly growing demands…

— Gary Larson