Arrogant Quote by Greg Peterson

The control of nature is a phrase conceived in arrogance.

— Rachel Carson

“Only the most arrogant, shortsighted, and spiritually bereft of our species would say that, at any cost to other species, we need only worry…

— Timothy Walker

Suddenly, we humans - a recently arrived species, no longer subject to the checks and balances inherent in nature - have grown in population,…

— Paul MacCready

As our own species is in the process of proving, one cannot have superior science and inferior morals. The combination is unstable and self-destroying.

— Arthur C. Clarke

The fact is that no species has ever had such wholesale control over everything on earth, living or dead, as we now have. That…

— David Attenborough

“Protect the environment? Prevent animals from extinction? Bullshit! Why don't you just admit it! Humans shouldn't always be exploiting other creatures and thinking only…

— Hitoshi Iwaaki

Nature is always trying to tell us that we are not so superior or independent or alone or autonomous as we may think.

— Wendell Berry

We are the only species which, when it chooses to do so, will go to great effort to save what it might destroy.

— Wallace Stegner

The 'control of nature' is a phrase conceived in arrogance, . . . when it was supposed that nature exists for the convenience of…

— Rachel Carson

As a species, we tend to be doers, forever shaping and reshaping the world to better suit our purposes.

— Mariella Frostrup

“Many species lack the ability to defy their own animal instincts and allow their intellect to prevail.”

— Ernest Cline

Environmentalists and secular humanists insist that humans will destroy the planet. Corporate capitalists and many religious fundamentalists have no regard for wildlife and nature.…

— Zeena Schreck