Air Quote by Pope John Paul II

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

During the Holocene, we undoubtedly altered our environment significantly, clearing land, diverting water and building great cities.

— Johan Rockstrom

We can break the mountains apart; we can drain the rivers and flood the valleys. We can turn the most luxuriant forests into throw-away…

— Thomas Berry

(The processes are) doubly ruinous: they impoverish the earth by hastily removing, for the benefit of a few generations, the common resources which, once…

— Lewis Mumford

Fertile soil, level plains, easy passage across the mountains, coal, iron, and other metals imbedded in the rocks, and a stimulating climate, all shower…

— Ellsworth Huntington

The Earth is our environment to protect and the garden to tend to.

— Pope Francis

Places that have become agricultural deserts, trashed by giant corporations, could be reforested, drawing carbon dioxide from the air on a vast scale. The…

— George Monbiot

“Ecologically, bourgeois exploitation and manipulation are undermining the very capacity of the earth to sustain advanced forms of life. The crisis is being heightened…

— Murray Bookchin

Man is a complex being: he makes deserts bloom - and lakes die.

— Gil Scott-Heron

We are the environment. The world is literally one biological process. The trees are our lungs. Look at the Amazon River system next to…

— Ian Somerhalder

“The sun shines differently, the air is different, water is not as it used to be. The things we used to eat, made use…

— Andrzej Sapkowski

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