Kurt Vonnegut Quotes

I really wonder what gives us the right to wreck this poor planet of ours.

It was once religion which told us that we are all sinners because of original sin. It is now the ecology of our planet which pronounces us all to be sinners because of the excessive exploits of human inventiveness.

I think having toured the world and seeing many places, I've just been blown away by how we've really scarred our home. I'm as guilty as the next person if not more so. I travel a lot. The damage we do to our planet is huge.

We're not environmentally doing very good things to this planet, and we might not be around too long.

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.

Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end by destroying the earth.

Putting our ecosystem in great peril is certainly not a part of Chinese culture that I know.

Wouldn't it help Americans more, in the long run, if we were forced to accept some responsibility for the environmental wreckage we prefer to assume is totally out of our control?

The planet will adapt to anything. Maybe we should start to use the heart and the brain that we've been given to organize ourselves. Because if we keep screwing up things, we may be just passing by in the history of the planet.

Every breath we take as human beings damages the planet.

If people think nature is their friend, then they sure don't need an enemy.

Because we're not in harmony with the environment, we're destroying the environment that supports us.

The latest revelation - from no Mount Sinai, Sermon on the Mount or Bo tree - is the outcry of mute things themselves that we must heed by curbing our powers over creation, lest we perish together on a wasteland of what that creation once was.

We're busily wrecking the chances for future generations at a rapid rate of knots by not recognizing the damage we're doing to the natural environment, bearing in mind that this is the only planet that we know has any life on it.

If nature were a bank, they would have already rescued it.

Environmentalism has failed.

The most important thing about Spaceship Earth - an instruction book didn't come with it.

What we're doing to the planet is inexcusable.

My generation has left the globe in a mess.

I always get involved with the environment because once you go past the tipping point with the environment, you don't get it back.

If you look at the state of our planet, the next generations won't be around if we consider sustainability as a gimmick.

The planet does nothing but support us, and we are constantly committing crimes against nature.

As I'm traveling around, I meet many small children. And when I look at a small and think how we've harmed this beautiful planet since I was that age, I feel a kind of desperation, anger, shame. I don't know what I feel; I just don't know what the emotion is.

I think that witnessing ecological problems visible from space is one of the new and essential roles of astronauts.

We do not yet have the solutions to these questions, but the awareness that we live in an endangered world is present in more and more life situations.