Eco-Action Quotes

~ We have modified our environment so radically that we must now modify ourselves to exist in this new environment. ~ Norbert Wiener 

~ In an underdeveloped country, don't drink the water; in a developed country, don't breathe the air. ~  Changing Times Magazine 

~ We generate our own environment. We get exactly what we deserve. How can we resent a life we've created ourselves? Who's to blame, who's to credit but us? Who can change it, anytime we wish, but us? ~ Richard Bach 

~ I think the environment should be put in the category of our national security. Defense of our resources is just as important as defense abroad. Otherwise what is there to defend? ~ Robert Redford 

~ If all mankind were to disappear, the world would regenerate back to the rich state of equilibrium that existed ten thousand years ago. If insects were to vanish, the environment would collapse into chaos. ~ Edward O. Wilson 

~ Our environmental problems originate in the hubris of imagining ourselves as the central nervous system or the brain of nature. We're not the brain, we are a cancer on nature. ~ David Foreman