Destruction Of Nature Quotes:

Our destruction of nature is not just bad stewardship, or stupid economics, or a betrayal of family responsibility; it is the most horrid blasphemy. It is flinging God's gifts into His face, as if they were of no worth beyond that assigned to them by our destruction of them.

- Wendell Berry

source: Wendell Berry (2003). “The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays of Wendell Berry”, p.308, Counterpoint

topic: Betrayal, Stupid, Responsibility, Destruction Of Nature, Family Responsibility

The idea of wilderness needs no defense, it only needs defenders.

- Edward Abbey

topic: Ideas, Environmental, Needs, Defenders, Destruction Of Nature

Peace and the survival of life on earth as we know it are threatened by human activities which lack a commitment to humanitarian values. Destruction of nature and nature's resources result from ignorance, greed and lack of respect for the earth's living things.

- Dalai Lama

source: Dalai Lama XIV (1995). “My Tibet”, p.80, Univ of California Press

topic: Lack Of Respect, Destruction Of Nature

The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us, the less taste we shall have for destruction.

- Rachel Carson

source: Rachel Carson (2002). “Silent Spring”, p.19, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

topic: Nature, Zoos, Ocean, Deep Ecology, Destruction Of Nature

I believe our biggest issue is the same biggest issue that the whole world is facing, and that's habitat destruction.

- Steve Irwin

topic: Believe, Issues, Environmental, Destruction Of Nature, Habitat For Humanity

Destruction, hence, like creation, is one of Nature's mandates.

- Marquis de Sade

topic: Nature, Reality, Creation, Destruction Of Nature, Creation And Destruction

The problems we face today, violent conflicts, destruction of nature, poverty, hunger and so on, are human-created problems which can be resolved through human effort, understanding and the development of a sense of brotherhood and sisterhood. We need to cultivate a universal responsibility for one another and the planet we share.

- Dalai Lama

topic: God, Peace, Responsibility, Hunger Poverty, Sense Of Responsibility

I believe until fairly recently our destructions of nature were more or less unwitting -- the by-products, so to speak, of our ignorance or weakness or depravity. It is our present principled and elaborately rationalized rape and plunder of the natural world that is a new thing under the sun.

- Wendell Berry

topic: Believe, Ignorance, World, Destruction Of Nature

I believe the accepted model of capitalism that demands endless growth deserves the blame for the destruction of nature, and it should be displaced. Failing that, I try to work with those companies and help them change the way they think about our resources.

- Yvon Chouinard

topic: Believe, Thinking, Growth, Destruction Of Nature

People who blame the Bible for the modern destruction of nature have failed to see its delight in the variety and individuality of creatures and its insistence upon their holiness. But that delight-in, say, the final chapters of Job or the 104th Psalm-is far more useful to the cause of conservation than the undifferentiating abstractions of science... Reverence gives standing to creatures, and to our perception of them, just as the law gives standing to a citizen.

- Wendell Berry

topic: Jobs, Animal, Law, Destruction Of Nature, Psalms

Starting from the very reasonable, but unfortunately revolutionary concept that social practices which threaten the continuation of life on Earth must be changed, we need a theory of revolutionary ecology that will encompass social and biological issues, class struggle, and a recognition of the role of global corporate capitalism in the oppression of peoples and the destruction of nature.

- Judi Bari

topic: Struggle, Practice, Class, Continuation Of Life, Destruction Of Nature