William Irwin Thompson Quotes

I believe that even 'returning-to-nature' and anti pollution activities, no matter how commendable, are not moving toward a genuine solution if they are carried out solely in reaction to the over development of the present age.

We can no longer throw our waste away because there is no away.

Pollution is nothing but resources we're not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we've been ignorant of their value.

There's a value in used electronic equipment, and currently, there are small, domestic recyclers that process this equipment safely. But they have a hard time competing with facilities overseas that have few, if any, environmental and safety standards.

E-waste is the fastest growing waste stream in the United States and can pose serious environmental and health problems here and around the world when not handled properly.

Pollution should never be the price of prosperity.

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

We can't have landfills forever, and we can't ask others to accept our trash.

Mother Nature comes up against reality, and the reality is that the system doesn't work.

If we have any hope of finding ways for seven billion people to live well on planet with finite resources, we have to learn to use our resources efficiently. Plastic bags are neither efficient nor environmentally friendly.

Just because you have a piece of trash and you throw it away and it gets hauled away, it doesn't mean that it's not affecting someone else.

In today's world, it is no longer unimaginable to think that business can operate - and even thrive - in an environmentally-friendly manner.

When Woodstock ended on Monday morning, over 600 acres of garbage was left behind on Max Yasgur's farm. It took over 400 volunteers and $100,000 to remove it all.

A newspaper that you're not reading can be used for anything; and the same people didn't think it was immoral to wrap their garbage in newspaper.

Some trash is recycled, some is thrown away, some ends up where it shouldn't end up.

Obviously, waste disposal is an enormous and fantastic industry.

The film business creates a large amount of waste, and I'm not immune to waste in the business.

Years ago, we all talked about recycling and not dumping things down your drain and all of that, but talking doesn't help much. Basically, it's going to have to be legislation because the impact is so huge and diversified.

All life forms obey Nature's demands—except man, who has found ways of ignoring them.

Any living thing that hopes to live on the earth must fit into the ecosphere or perish.

For him nature is basically a golf course or a ranch--or a national park turned into a country club where folks can burn off stress by speeding over the snow while polluting the air of Yellowstone with gas-guzzling skidoos.

People who are not addressing the issues of population control are not seriously addressing the environment.

We're not going to allow Virginia to become a trash depository for New York or anyplace else.

The cheap and easy days of waste disposal are over.

Humanity is consuming the resources of the earth and life in an excessive and disordered way, forgetting the earth's own needs