Crisis Quote by Rene Dubos Download Open image “It is not man the ecological crisis threatens to destroy but the quality of human life.” — Rene Dubos ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Crisis Destroying the environment Earth day Ecological Ecological crisis Ecology Environment Environmental Environmental quality Human life Humans Life Men Pollution Quality Save mother earth
Man will survive as a species for one reason: He can adapt to the destructive effects of our power-intoxicated technology and of our ungoverned… — Rene Dubos Copy Share Image
We do not have an ecological crisis. The ecosphere has a human crisis. Our 'story' about our place in the scheme of things has… — William E. Rees Copy Share Image
Humankind has suddenly entered into a brand new relationship with our planet. Unless we quickly and profoundly change the course of our civilization, we… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
The ecological crisis is doing what no other crisis in history has ever done - challenging us to a realization of a new humanity. — Jean Houston Copy Share Image
It's obvious that the key problem facing humanity in the coming century is how to bring a better quality of life - for 8… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
All nations are degrading and consuming their environment to a point beyond capacity. In the past 15 years in the U.S. we have added… — Gaylord Nelson Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
We are in an environmental crisis which threatens the survival of this nation, and of the world as a suitable place of human habitation. — Barry Commoner Copy Share Image
The seriousness of ecological degradation lays bare the depth of man's moral crisis... Simplicity, moderation, and discipline as well as the spirit of sacrifice… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
... each type of civilization has had diseases peculiar to it and at each period the various social groups in any community also have… — Rene Dubos Copy Share Image
Human life implies adventure, and there is no adventure without struggles and dangers. — Rene Dubos Copy Share Image
...Search for the cause may be a hopeless pursuit because most disease states are the indirect outcome of a constellation of circumstances. — Rene Dubos Copy Share Image
But too often the goal of the planners is a universal gray state of health corresponding to absence of disease rather than to a… — Rene Dubos Copy Share Image
With reference to life there is not one nature; there are only associations of states and circumstances, varying from place to place and from… — Rene Dubos Copy Share Image
It is a disturbing fact that Western civilization, which claims to have achieved the highest standard of health in history, finds itself compelled to… — Rene Dubos Copy Share Image
There is a demon in technology. It was put there by man and man will have to exorcise it before technological civilization can achieve… — Rene Dubos Copy Share Image
Human life is now molded to a large extent by the changes that man has brought about in his external environment and by his… — Rene Dubos Copy Share Image
The earth is literally our mother, not only because we depend on her for nurture and shelter but even more because the human sepcies… — Rene Dubos Copy Share Image
Clearly, health and disease cannot be defined merely in terms of anatomical, physiological, or mental attributes. Their real measure is the ability of the… — Rene Dubos Copy Share Image
The belief that we can manage the Earth and improve on Nature is probably the ultimate expression of human conceit, but it has deep… — Rene Dubos Copy Share Image
People in great groups have blinders on. Their work is all they see. They value failures as learning opportunities. They are optimistic, not realistic,… — Warren G. Bennis Copy Share Image
It is proposed that a form of free dialogue may well be one of the most effective ways of investigating the crisis which faces… — David Bohm Copy Share Image
The crisis of our diminishing water resources is just as severe (if less obviously immediate) as any wartime crisis we have ever faced. Our… — Jim Wright Copy Share Image
It is popular to call it a crisis of the Western world. It is in fact a crisis of the whole world. Communism, which… — Whittaker Chambers Copy Share Image
The financial crisis we are facing today arises from the fact that there is almost no more social, cultural, natural, and spiritual capital left… — Charles Eisenstein Copy Share Image
Ideal for the child and society in the best of times, Rudolf Steiner's brilliant process of education is critically needed and profoundly relevant now… — Joseph Chilton Pearce Copy Share Image
In a couple of decades you have half of the wells that are drilled right now, and you're talking about numbers in the millions… — Josh Fox Copy Share Image
Disasters affect every state, and North Carolinians have given our own tax dollars to help neighbors and those in other states in times of… — Roy Cooper Copy Share Image
Things happen too quickly, crisis follows crisis, the soil of our minds is perpetually disturbed. Each of us, to relieve his feelings, broadcasts his… — Jan Struther Copy Share Image
When this coronavirus crisis is over, what kind of society will we be? A more important question is what kind of society do we… — Caroline Lucas Copy Share Image
The average ordinary citizen can do a lot of different things when it comes to the climate crisis. — Lawrence Bender Copy Share Image
The turning points of lives are not the great moments. The real crises are often concealed in occurrences so trivial in appearance that they… — George Washington Copy Share Image
