Bees Quote by Sam Keen

Today, our air, food, water-all are polluted. If we do not stop exploiting nature for our temporary selfish gains, we will destroy the world.

— Mata Amritanandamayi

To me, we are in the midst of such broad-scale destruction, both psychically and physically, that the only thing that can threaten the grip,…

— Terry Tempest Williams

Unless the human race realizes with a passion and reverence beyond thought or words its inter-being with nature, it will destroy in its greed…

— Andrew Harvey

“The reckless application of technology, harnessed to greed, degrades and destroys the ecosystems in which the energies of the elements are maintained in exquisite…

— Ralph Metzner

If we continue to think of ourselves mostly as consumers, it's going to be very hard to bring our environmental troubles under control. But…

— Bill McKibben

If we go on the way we have, the fault is our greed and if we are not willing to change, we will disappear…

— Jacques Yves Cousteau

We won't have a society if we destroy the environment.

— Margaret Mead

In the same way that banks succeeded at privatizing the profits and socializing the losses as they led the global economy to the brink…

— Felix Dodds

The dramatic threat of ecological breakdown is teaching us the extent to which greed and selfishness are contrary to the order of creation. ...A…

— Pope John Paul II

The specific danger is us; we are rampant; this earth is our only friend; we are destroying it increment by increment at a horrific…

— William Kittredge

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

If we attempt to preserve the consumer economy indefinitely, ecological forces will dismantle it savagely. If we proceed to dismantle it gradually ourselves, we…

— Alan Thein Durning