Quotes About Humans And The Environment

#1. In our commitment to raise healthy, conscious children and create a healthy world, it is hard to understand how people can choose to spend money for something that not only does not work, but poisons humans and the environment.

Gabriel Cousens M.D.

#2. Geoengineering involves humans making intentional, large-scale modifications to the Earths geophysical systems in order to change the environment.

Jamais Cascio

#3. The most important thing to know about prehistoric humans is that they were insignificant animals with no more impact on their environment than gorillas, fireflies or jellyfish.

Yuval Noah Harari

#4. Humans have wandered the Earth for thousands of years but never has our capacity to alter the Earth's ecosystem at a larger scale been more prominent than it is today.

Kat Lahr

#5. Where the quality of life goes down for the environment, the quality of life goes down for humans.

George Holland

#6. Such a social-media environment; it is merely the most recent and most efficient way that humans have found to scratch a prehistoric itch. The compelling nature of social media, then, can be traced back in part to the evolution of the social brain, as

Tom Standage

#7. The frontier in space, embodied in the space colony, is one in which the interactions between humans and their environment is so much more sensitive and interactive and less tolerant of irresponsibility than it is on the whole surface of the Earth.

Rusty Schweickart

#8. The environment near Gargantua will become more dangerous for individual life forms, including humans, promoting faster evolution if enough individuals survive.

Kip S. Thorne

#9. Modern Humans have at least dealt out death fairly: We began our existence by killing each other.

Mark Lynas

#10. As humans we make mistakes, expect life to automatically meet all of our needs, and imagine our environment will stay wonderful without extra effort from us.

Catherine Basten

#11. The most precious gift God gave humans is reason. Its best use is the search for knowledge. To know the human environment, to know the earth and galaxies, is to know God. Knowledge (science) is the best form of prayer.

Fatema Mernissi

#12. Conversely, we humans are born premature and highly dependent newborns whose brains are shaped through years of interactions with our caretakers and the environment.

Louis Cozolino

#13. Pliable human nature is relentlessly pressed upon by its physical environment.

Jane Addams

#14. The difference between animals and humans is that animals change themselves for the environment, but humans change the environment for themselves.

Ayn Rand

#15. I was so fanatical about trying to save wildlife ... I was unable to accept that we couldn't solve this problem of thousands of years, of wherever humans operated, the environment deteriorated.

Allan Savory

#16. Humans are a great survivor species but our survival will be pretty grim if all of the plants and animals we depend on die out. That's why any human survival strategy has to include a plan to maintain our environment roughly in the state that it's in now.

Annalee Newitz

#17. Trust me if there will be any heaven after life; I am sure we humans are going to fuck it too.

M.F. Moonzajer

#18. For years, agency officials said that atrazine in drinking water posed almost no risk to humans or the environment.

Charles Duhigg

#19. Genetic design is something we can use to fight the lack of sustainability we humans are forcing on the earth's environment.

Craig Venter

#20. Humans are the most successful invasives of all time.

Diane Ackerman

#21. To be human is to care for your fellow human beings and protecting the environment.

Jacque Fresco

#22. Once humans traded their hunter-gatherer existences for more settled communities, we began a quest to make our lives better and more comfortable, but we've also been sucking precious finite resources from our environment ever since.

Naveen Jain

#23. We humans still have a long way to go with learning to live harmoniously with our environment and its wildlife.

Steve Irwin

#24. I think the greatest challenge in environmentalism and the most rewarding challenge is trying to figure out how humans can meet their needs while protecting the environment.

Gale Norton

#25. Embracing our environment is a good direction, a very spiritual direction. It's too Aristotelian to separate man from the animals and man; humans from the environment.

Surya Das

#26. So you know that all living things share the same energy source and that every action that humans do to nature will affect everything on this planet.

Alison Cooklin

#27. If we humans are good at anything, it's thinking we've got a terrific idea and going for it without acknowledging the potential consequences or our own ignorance.

David Suzuki

#28. Humans are not disabled. A person can never be broken. Our built environment, our technologies, are broken and disabled. We the people need not accept our limitations, but can transcend disability through technological innovation.

Hugh Herr

#29. Fundamentally, if you look at where the environmental issues are coming from, it's all because of humans and our impact on the environment, so while it's true that one individual is not going to sufficiently fix the environment, it is a necessary thing.

David Filo

#30. Factory farming is terrible for the environment - not to mention that it's gross. The best thing you can do, if you think about it, is to become a vegetarian and just spread the word. The world would change for the better for animals, humans, and the planet if everyone took that step.

Christofer Drew

#31. Is it wrong of me to propose a ceasefire agreement between humans and whales and dolphins, I know it is in actuality a one sided massacre, but so was Bosnia and there the ceasefire is holding, so would it be nice to have a declaration backing a ceasefire between us mammals?

Steve Merrick

#32. We forget that we humans are animals, inextricably connected to the world and everything in it. In the rush to bring GMO food to the world because it was good for us, nobody had asked the question whether it would be good for the world.

Kenneth Eade

#33. Humans are born with two perfectly good lungs, into the only environment in the universe those lungs have evolved over millions of years to breathe in.

Craig Stone

#34. Machines that fit the human environment, instead of forcing humans to enter theirs, will make using a computer as refreshing as taking a walk in the woods.

Mark Weiser

#35. The natural environment of humans - space stations, ships, constructed habitats.

Ann Leckie

#36. In effect, humans have dragged a body with a long hominid history into an overfed, malnourished, sedentary, sunlight-deficient, sleep-deprived, competitive, inequitable, and socially-isolating environment with dire consequences. The

Sebastian Junger

#37. Humans create their cognitive powers by creating the environments in which they exercise those powers

Edwin Hutchins

#38. It is now well understood that humans ultimately depend on the health of the planet for their wellbeing.

Peter Garrett

#39. The greatest danger hanging over our children and grandchildren is initiation of changes that will be irreversible on any time scale that humans can imagine.

James Hansen

#40. It may be said that the basic characteristic of human behavior in general is that humans personally influence their relations with the environment and through that environment personally change their behavior, subjugating it to their control.

Lev S. Vygotsky