Firsts Quote by N. Katherine Hayles

“A certain percentage of technological societies severely damage their own planets before they become mature enough to understand the damage they are doing. In…

— John Sandford

We've poisoned our planet to a desperate degree. We have no idea of how severe the toxification is.

— Benjamin Creme

No matter what we call it, poison is still poison, death is still death, and industrial civilization is still causing the greatest mass extinction…

— Derrick Jensen

It is poison - rank poison - to knuckle down to care and hardships. They must come to us all, albeit in different shapes,…

— Mark Twain

They abandon the Ambrosial Nectar and turn to poison, they earn poison, and poison is their only wealth.

— Harmeet Singh

There is a very real danger that we will kill everything on this planet now that we have the technological power to do so.

— Stephen Hawking

Here we are, the most clever species ever to have lived. So how is it we can destroy the only planet we have?

— Jane Goodall

It's like they take poison and then hope for the other person to die.

— Mike Lupica

The poisons are our principal medicines, which kill the disease and save the life.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

We are turning everything on this planet into food for humans. We'll eat it and, if we can't eat it, we'll kill it and…

— Morgan Freeman

The way I see it, the earth is going to be here after we're dead and gone. Even if it's a polluted planet, and…

— Richard Pryor

How could intelligent beings seek to control a few unwanted species by a method that contaminated the entire environment and brought the threat of…

— Rachel Carson