Answers Quote by Sigurd F. Olson

“We must stand on the side of goodness, compassion and conscience, not to keep the processes in Nature functioning, but because if we don't,…

— Abhijit Naskar

The focus of environmental ethics should indeed be on the virtues and how these inform our relationship to natural environments.

— David E. Cooper

In our efforts to get human beings empirically into focus in ethics, we have a standing obligation not only to revisit and, if necessary,…

— Alice Crary

Ultimately, the decision to save the environment must come from the human heart. The key point is a call for a genuine sense of…

— Dalai Lama

How important is a constant intercourse with nature and the contemplation of natural phenomena to the preservation of moral and intellectual health!

— Henry David Thoreau

Our moral responsibility is not to stop future, but to shape it...to channel our destiny in humane directions and to ease the trauma of…

— Alvin Toffler

We find ourselves ethically destitute just when, for the first time, we are faced with ultimacy, the irreversible closing down of the earth's functioning…

— Thomas Berry

“There are no shortcuts to moral insight. Nature is not intrinsically anything that can offer comfort or solace in human terms -- if only…

— Stephen Jay Gould

Not only our moral life, but even our use of theoretical reason - on which we rely in rationally inquiring into nature - presupposes…

— Allen W. Wood

“Our ethics are not meant to be created in our childhoods and shoved in a box somewhere; they must be reshaped daily, as we…

— Elie Wiesel

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

There is a fundamental question we all have to face. How are we to live our lives; by what principles and moral values will…

— H. Jackson Brown, Jr