Agents Quote by George Will

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

Man will survive as a species for one reason: He can adapt to the destructive effects of our power-intoxicated technology and of our ungoverned…

— Rene Dubos

The more humanity advances, the more it is degraded.

— Gustave Flaubert

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

— Liu Cixin

I feel like human beings can't help but destroy, but if our numbers are small we don't destroy as much as we do when…

— Melissa Holbrook Pierson

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

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

— Rene Dubos

We are capable of regaining our reverence for life, of replacing the drive to conquer with the will to cooperate, of remaking our engineered…

— Elisabet Sahtouris

Human beings create more than they destroy.

— Julian Simon

Throughout history, human exploitation of the earth has produced this progression: colonize-destroy-move on.

— Garrett Hardin

destruction is easy for humans but creation is too difficult.

— Daniel J. Boorstin

Humans have made a huge hole in nature in the last 10,000 years. [With de-extinction,] we have the ability now, and maybe the moral…

— Anonymous