Noam Chomsky Quotes

Nature is simply the environment on earth in which man finds himself, and to treat it as a separate being in the image of man is sheer nonsense.

Environment is of supreme importance. It is greater than will power.

A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise.

Now, more than ever, we need nature as a balancing agent.

All true wealth is biological.

That land is a community is the basic concept of ecology, but that land is to be loved and respected is an extension of ethics..

The natural environment sustains the life of all beings universally.

I never lose an opportunity to speak about my obsession: humankind and the environment.

The environment, what surrounds you, is so alive and delightful and complex.

You should issue demerits for tree cutting or the destruction of humus.

Natures' curriculum cannot be changed.

The further human society drifts away from nature, the less we understand interdependence.

Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment.

If we do not permit the earth to produce beauty and joy, it will in the end not produce food, either.

Environmentalism is a way of seeing our place within the biosphere.

Right now, we don't have a very good relation with creation.

Look at the bark of a redwood, and you see moss. If you peer beneath the bits and pieces of the moss, you'll see toads, small insects, a whole host of life that prospers in that miniature environment. A lumberman will look at a forest and see so many board feet of lumber. I see a living city.

Landscape to me is a planar thing, just a view. Environment is everything down to the ecosystem. Big difference.

Nature conserves, prefers novelty.

The most important principle of environment is that you are not the only element.

I take a biocentric point of view. I look at things from the point of view of the Earth and the laws of ecology. As opposed to the anthropocentric point of view, where everything revolves around humanity.

It's nice to think about having everything natural and similar to pre-Columbian times.... In fact, man himself has long been part of that environment and there is no way to separate him from that environment.

A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability, and beauty of the biotic community.

Biodiversity underpins life on earth. And if we don't look after this biodiversity, if we don't protect it, if we don't actually harness it in the right way, we are threatening our own livelihoods on this planet.

Our health depends on the health of the environment in which we live.