Absolutes Quote by Paul Driessen

“It’s sometimes argued that there’s no real progress; that a civilization that kills multitudes in mass warfare, that pollutes the land and oceans with…

— Robert M. Pirsig

We have come tardily to the tremendous task of cleaning up our environment. We should have moved with similar zeal at least a decade…

— Gerald R. Ford

“The Luddites ... asserted the precedence of community needs over technological innovation and monetary profit; ... The victory of industrialism over Luddism was overwhelming…

— Wendell Berry

The most serious charge that can be brought against modern benevolence is that it encourages the perpetuation of defectives, delinquents and dependents. These are…

— Margaret Sanger

I believe that even 'returning-to-nature' and anti pollution activities, no matter how commendable, are not moving toward a genuine solution if they are carried…

— Masanobu Fukuoka

“Many conscientious environmentalists are repelled by the word "abundance," automatically associating it with irresponsible consumerism and plundering of Earth's resources. In the context of…

— Jeane Manning

The sustainability revolution will be organic. It will arise from the visions, insights, experiments and actions of billions of people. The burden of making…

— Donella Meadows

We're not trying to reinvent the wheel; for any environmental organization to claim sole responsibility for any kind of victory is insane, because everybody…

— Ted Danson

There would be no call for ecological campaigning had nature not been exploited and abused. We experience the ground now bringing forth thistles as…

— Desmond Tutu

“The chief causes of the environmental destruction that faces us today are not biological, or the product of individual human choice. They are social…

— John Bellamy Foster

“A revolutionary ecology movement must also organize among poor and working people. With the exception of the toxics movement and the native land rights…

— Judi Bari

“Two decades ago, however, socialism and communism died rudely, then were buried forever by the empirical demonstration of the superiority of market capitalism everywhere…

— Charles Krauthammer