Nature Climate Change Quotes

#1. With our evolved busy hands and our evolved busy brains, in an extraordinarily short period of time we've managed to alter the earth with such geologic-forcing effects that we ourselves are forces of nature. Climate change, ocean acidification, the sixth mass extinction of species.

Kate Bernheimer

#2. We all are travelers traveling on a very big spaceship called Earth. Let's not ruin the engines of our very own spaceship in the name of development.

Mohith Agadi

#3. Capitalism and the thirst for profit without limits of the capitalist system are destroying the planet ... Climate change has placed all humankind before a great choice: to continue in the ways of capitalism and death, or to start down the path of harmony with nature and respect for life.

Evo Morales

#4. We live in a society where those that do the greatest damage to humanity and nature reap the greatest financial rewards.

Steven Magee

#5. The goal now is a socialist, redistributionist society, which is nature's proper steward and society's only hope.

David R. Brower

#6. Men may change their climate, but they cannot change their nature. A man that goes out a fool cannot ride or sail himself into common sense.

Joseph Addison

#7. In the end, the question is not, how do we use nature to serve our interests? It's how can we use humans to serve nature's interest?'

William McDonough

#8. We see neither justice nor injustice which does not change its nature with change in climate. Three degrees of latitude reverse all jurisprudence; a meridian decides the truth.

Blaise Pascal

#9. Right now, in the amazing moment that to us counts as the present, we are deciding, without quite meaning to, which evolutionary pathways will remain open and which will forever be closed. No other creature has ever managed this and it will, unfortunately, be our most enduring legacy.

Elizabeth Kolbert

#10. Denial of climate change and degradation of environment for the purpose of economic prosperity is humiliation and slavery of the nature.

M.F. Moonzajer

#11. Deviation from Nature is deviation from happiness.

Samuel Johnson

#12. Ultimately, the human being is in the mercy of nature.

Dalai Lama

#13. Climate change is not the fault of man. It's Mother Nature's way. And sucking greenhouse gases from the atmosphere is too limited a solution. We have to be prepared for fire or ice, for fry or freeze. We have to be prepared for change.

Howard Bloom

#14. It's the arrogance of man to think that man can change the climate of the world. Only nature can change the climate. A volcano, for instance.

Tom DeLay

#15. Caelum non animum mutant qui trans mare currunt.
(They change their sky, not their soul, who rush across the sea.)

Horace

#16. The Earth was singing her revolution. She was calling her brave men and women to her defense.

Rivera Sun

#17. The race is now on between the technoscientific and scientific forces that are destroying the living environment and those that can be harnessed to save it ... If the race is won, humanity can emerge in far better condition than when it entered, and with most of the diversity of life still intact.

Edward O. Wilson

#18. Environment isn't asking us to conserve her for her but for our future generations.

Mohith Agadi

#19. Men argue. Nature acts.

Voltaire

#20. The world that you and I live in is increasingly challenged. Population growth, pollution, over-consumption, unsustainable patterns, social conflict, climate change, loss of nature ... these are not good stories.

Jack Dangermond

#21. When you talk with people, one of the arguments they'll throw back at you is that the climate has always changed, and that is absolutely right. It's the rate of change that is the problem right now. It's changing so quickly that it exceeds the adaptive capacity of some species.

Michael Crimmins

#22. Think globally, act locally": "Our salvation depends upon our ability to create a religion of nature.

Rene Dubos

#23. Global warming is by its very nature a threat, but it is a deadly threat only because it fails to trigger the brain's alarm. It leaves us sleeping in a burning bed.

Dan Gilbert

#24. We loved our homeland for thousands of years which cost us climate change and environmental degradation because we were too selfish to care about the nature, now it is time that we must love our world at least for a little time.

M.F. Moonzajer

#25. Real change will only happen when we fall in love with our planet. Only love can show us how to live in harmony with nature and with each other and save us from the devastating effects of environmental destruction and climate change

Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee

#26. We've been given a warning by science, and a wake-up call by nature; it is up to us now to heed them.

Bill McKibben

#27. Environment is no one's property to destroy; it's everyone's responsibility to protect.

Mohith Agadi

#28. I have a conflict of interest in environmental conservation.

Mohith Agadi

#29. There are great challenges before you, from the overwhelming nature of climate change to the unfairness of an economy that excludes so many from our collective wealth, and the changes necessary to build a more inclusive and generous Canada. I believe in you.

Jack Layton

#30. Our very contract with nature has a deep restorative power; contemplation of its magnificence imparts peace and serenity.

Pope John Paul II

#31. Nature is not static, but causes its own, internally-generated changes - both in climate and in biological systems.

Roy Spencer

#32. The current climate change is an outer mirror of our inner consciousness. It is an outer mirror of our attitude to try to conquer nature, instead of being in harmony with nature, but in the end the part can never conquer the whole.

Swami Dhyan Giten

#33. Nature's standard operating procedure, pairing a population explosion with a population crash.

Alfred W. Crosby

#34. The enemy is over there and we are still seeking revenge from the nature.

M.F. Moonzajer