“Some recent occurrences such as the BSE disaster and even perhaps - dare I mention it - the present severe weather conditions in our country are, I have no doubt, the consequences of mankind's arrogant disregard of the delicate balance of nature. We have to find a way of ensuring that our remarkable and seemingly beneficial advances in technology do not just become the agents of our own destruction.” WayCountryTechnologyDoubtConditionsMankindBalanceConsequenceDestructionEnvironmentalDareDisasterWeatherOur CountryAgentsNo DoubtRemarkableDelicateArrogantSevereBeneficialStewardshipDisregard Author:Prince Charles
“Along with the possibility of extinction of mankind by nuclear war, the central problem of our age has therefore become the contamination of man's total environment with such substances of incredible potential for harm-substances that accumulate in the tissues of plants and animals and even penetrate the germ cells to shatter or alter the very material of heredity upon which the shape of the future depends.” MenWarProblemAgeAnimalEnvironmentMankindPossibilityMaterialsDependsShapesPlantEnvironmentalIncrediblesHarmNuclearCellsSubstancePollutionExtinctionPenetrateGermsTissuesNuclear WarHeredityPlants And AnimalsContamination Book:Silent Spring Source: Silent Spring
“It is a written fact that our people had warned of all these consequences of wrongful environmental behavior since our very first contact with the non-Indians. There was a time when our elders used to say to us, "You can't function with one foot in the white man's canoe and one foot in the Indian's canoe." With these extreme environmental concerns taking place on the earth, mankind is all in the same boat. Or better be.” PeopleMenFirstsFactsEarthUsedWhiteWrittenFeetMankindBehaviorConsequenceConcernFunctionEnvironmentalExtremesContactBoatIndianWhite ManEldersFirst Contact Author:Leonard Peltier
“If people destroy something replaceable made by mankind, they are called vandals; if they destroy something irreplaceable made by God, they are called developers.” PeopleIfsMadeNatureEnvironmentMankindEnvironmentalDevelopersIrreplaceableVandals Author:Joseph Wood Krutch
“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.” IfsWorldYearsStatesScienceRichEnvironmentMankindThousandTenYears AgoEnvironmentalChaosDisappearCollapseThousand YearsInsectsEquilibriumSave Mother EarthWorld EnvironmentChaos In The World Author:E. O. Wilson
“We are prone to judge success by the index of our salaries or the size of our automobiles rather than by the quality of our service and relationship to mankind.” WisdomSuccessQualityCareersMankindJudgingEnvironmentalSizeSalaryAutomobileVolunteerismVolunteerism And Service Book:A Martin Luther King Treasury Source: A Martin Luther King Treasury