Building Quote by Johan Rockstrom

Human civilization has been changing the Earths environment for millennia, often to our detriment. Dams, deforestation and urbanization can alter water cycles and wind…

— Jamais Cascio

Man, especially in our time, has without hesitation devastated wooded plains and valleys, polluted waters, disfigured the earth's habitat, made the air unbreathable, disturbed…

— Pope John Paul II

Paleoclimatic records show clearly that the past 10,000 years, the Holocene, is a remarkably stable period in which we went from being a few…

— Johan Rockstrom

Sadly, in the name of progress, we have polluted the air, water, soil and the food we eat.

— Radhanath Swami

Nature made the fields and man the cities.

— Marcus Terentius Varro

We still have too much air and water pollution and we still need to work to reduce it. But we also need to put…

— Ronald Reagan

It is amazing how our natural areas can change over our lifetimes.

— Mazie Hirono

Humans have changed ecosystems more rapidly and extensively than in any comparable period of time in human history, largely to meet rapidly growing demands…

— Gary Larson

A fascinating challenge facing today's environmental movement is how to best approach the reversal of past decisions that altered once-pristine environmental spaces for the…

— Matt Gonzalez

Unlike the urban development that I see taking over and swallowing up our precious soil, when we interact with our environment in a way…

— Cory Trepanier

“As our technological capacities continue to increase and our environment becomes ever more fragile and endangered, we find that changes to the Earth that…

— Robert David Steele

Climate change, habitat destruction, extinctions - the Earth has seen it all before, thousands of years ago. And humans may have been partly to…

— Tatiana Schlossberg