Burning Quote by Jacques Chirac

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

Nature, and the natural human condition, generates tremendous suffering. We have the means to overcome that, and we should deploy it.

— Ray Kurzweil

Environmental degradation is one of the biggest challenges we have. I think a question that we're not asking ourselves is: 'Isn't humanity committing suicide…

— Pope Francis

Reality is harsh. It can be cruel and ugly. Yet no matter how much we grieve over our environment and circumstances nothing will change.…

— Daisaku Ikeda

We've poisoned the air, the water, and the land. In our passion to control nature, things have gone out of control. Progress from now…

— Robert Redford

“The earth is not our home. We came from nothing, and to that condition our nostalgia should turn. Why would anyone care about this…

— Thomas Ligotti

Those of us who witness the degraded state of the environment and the suffering that comes with it cannot afford to be complacent. We…

— Wangari Maathai

The time has come when we cannot be so careless. Unless we do better, we may suffer through a stark emergency of the environment.…

— Lyndon B. Johnson

We generate our own environment. We get exactly what we deserve. How can we resent a life we've created ourselves? Who's to blame, who's…

— Richard Bach

Humanity as a whole has already gone through unimaginable suffering, mostly self-inflicted, the culmination of which was the 20th century with its unspeakable horrors.…

— Eckhart Tolle

We are living beyond our means. As a people we have developed a life-style that is draining the earth of its priceless and irreplaceable…

— Margaret Mead

We have chosen to bring future generations into this world of rising seas and warming temperatures, droughts and floods, heat waves and wildfires, a…

— Leonor Varela