Citizens Quote by David Suzuki

When the forest is destroyed, when the river is dammed, when the biodiversity is stolen, when fields are waterlogged or turned saline because of…

— Vandana Shiva

The rich and powerful countries are trying to wreck as much as possible. You know, go off the cliff as soon as you can.…

— Noam Chomsky

In a country where half a million die every year only for drinking polluted water, it is more necessary for us to do something…

— Imran Khan

So, at one extreme you have indigenous, tribal societies trying to stem the race to disaster. At the other extreme, the richest, most powerful…

— Noam Chomsky

The worse the country, the more tortured it is by water and wind, the more broken and carved, the more it attracts fossil hunters,…

— Jack Horner

Governments always commit their entire populations when the demands grow heavy enough. By their passive acceptance, these populations become accessories to whatever is done…

— Frank Herbert

[During the 20th century] ... 170 million men, women, and children have been shot, beaten, tortured, knifed, burned, starved, frozen, crushed, or worked to…

— Rudolph Rummel

“In many areas, too, people are having to deal with environmental problems and, with these, threats to their livelihood and worse. At the same…

— Dalai Lama XIV

In the past, it was possible to destroy a village, a town, a region, even a country. Now it is the whole planet that…

— Pope John Paul II

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

— Eda LeShan

Livelihoods and whole communities throughout the Murray-Darling Basin have been imperilled by the workings of drought, fire, flood, acid mud and human action over…

— Quentin Bryce

The religion and the environmentalism of the highly industrialized countries are at bottom a sham, because they make it their business to fight against…

— Wendell Berry