Crisis Quote by Rene Dubos

It is not man the ecological crisis threatens to destroy but the quality of human life.

— Rene Dubos

Man is an over-complicated organism. If he is doomed to extinction he will die out for want of simplicity.

— Ezra Pound

If we continue to address the issue of the environment where we live as though we're the only species that lives here, we'll create…

— Gaylord Nelson

If current technological processes continue without change, the environment will change, and we, the human species, will either have to mutate or even die,…

— Mikhail Gorbachev

Humans are a great survivor species but our survival will be pretty grim if all of the plants and animals we depend on die…

— Annalee Newitz

We [people] have the power to destroy ourselves as well as the environment. As a species we love what I'd call brinks-person-ship, going right…

— Richard Bach

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

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

Mankind has survived all catastrophes. It will also survive modern medicine.

— Gerhard Kocher

“Human population growth is probably the single most serious long-term threat to survival. We're in for a major disaster if it isn't curbed... We…

— Anonymous

We hope that as a species we're capable of dealing with environmental catastrophe before it actually does collectively kill most of us.

— Moby

Modern man's capacity for destruction is quixotic evidence of humanity's capacity for reconstruction. The powerful technological agents we have unleashed against the environment include…

— George Will