Careful Quote by Eda LeShan

Eventually we'll realize that if we destroy the ecosystem, we destroy ourselves.

— Jonas Salk

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

— Liu Cixin

All our efforts to defeat poverty and pursue sustainable development will be in vain if environmental degradation and natural resource depletion continue unabated.

— Kofi Annan

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

We cannot but feel uneasy about the losses caused by humanity themselves. Apart from the losses of life and property in destructive wars, the…

— Anonymous

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

We hope that as a species we're capable of dealing with environmental catastrophe before it actually does collectively kill most of us.

— Moby

My main argument is that environmental destruction comes when people externalise their costs and pass them on to future generations. That is obviously something…

— Roger Scruton

I think we're simply going to run out of Nature before we have a chance to destroy it.

— Douglas Coupland

The worst thing that will probably happen-in fact is already well underway-is not energy depletion, economic collapse, conventional war, or the expansion of totalitarian…

— E. O. Wilson

People can live in nature, and they won't necessarily destroy it.

— Ma Yansong

Nothing is more likely to destroy a species or a nation than a determination to survive at all costs

— C. S. Lewis