Environmental-planning Quote by Tom Turner

“Environmental history is, among other things, a lengthy account of human beings over and over imagining their way into a serious pickle.”

— Elliott West

“Only the man’s greed and scientific development is responsible for earth’s degradation of environment and ecology.”

— Dr. Ashok Anand

A fascinating challenge facing today's environmental movement is how to best approach the reversal of past decisions that altered once-pristine environmental spaces for the…

— Matt Gonzalez

“Man aspires to govern nature, but the more one studies ecology, the more absurd it seems to speak of any one feature of an…

— Alan Wilson Watts

“It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without…

— Isaac Asimov

“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

“the majority of our most serious environmental problems start right here, at home, and if we are to solve these problems, we need an…

— Steven Vogel

The recent upsurge of public concern over environmental questions reflects a belated recognition that man has been too cavalier in his relations with nature.…

— Richard M. Nixon

The environment has become a political, polarizing issue.

— Harrison Ford

“We should turn resolutely towards Nature.”

— Samuel Beckett

“In permitting man, Nature has committed much more than a mistake in her calculations: a crime against herself.”

— Emil M. Cioran

All our environmental problems become easier to solve with fewer people and harder - and ultimately impossible to solve - with ever more people.

— David Attenborough