David Gross Quotes

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

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

The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds.

The further we distance ourselves from the spell of the present, explored by our senses, the harder it will be to understand and protect nature's precarious balance, let alone the balance of our own human nature.

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.

The environment is more than just nature. The environment is peoples needs.

Our conservation laws are based on static ideas about nature—not landscapes that are rapidly changing because of something humans did.

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.

Our knowledge is a little island in a great ocean of nonknowledge.

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

Natures' curriculum cannot be changed.

The thing that gave me the most pain in life, psychologically, and it gave me tremendous pain psychologically, is man's disrespect for nature.

I don't flatter myself - I'm not a scientist, I'm not a conservation expert.

The reason that I keep writing is that all my most powerful messages about the fates of wild places that I care about need to have words as well as images.

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

In a fragile environment, we need to be aware of ourselves as members of a uniquely powerful species living among other species who are quite as interesting as we are but vulnerable to us because we are cleverer in more destructive ways.

If you sort of treat the environment in sort of this mechanical, industrial way that there's a disconnect between man and the environment, it's very easy to treat people that way.

The images of Earth's delicate biosphere, contrasting with the sterile moonscape where the astronauts left their footsteps, have become iconic for environmentalists: these may indeed be the Apollo programme's most enduring legacy.

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

The machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature but plunges him more deeply into them.

That's the thing about Mother Nature, she really doesn't care what economic bracket you're in.

I want to interpret the natural world and our links to it. It's driven by the belief of many world-class scientists that we're in the midst of an extinction crisis... This time it's us that's doing it.

Nature has provided us a spectacular toolbox. The toolbox exists. An architect far better and smarter than us has given us that toolbox, and we now have the ability to use it.

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

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