Lauren DeStefano Quotes

Very urgent measures need to be taken, and without much delay, in dealing with the ongoing destruction of the environment.

Ignorance, hatred and greed are killing nature.

I think we are in the midst of this period where we are committing this suicide on the planet and everybody is just using up all of our natural resources like a bunch of insane people. That's what I worry about more than I worry about jazz.

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

I don't know what more to say. I mean, we're all going to die in a world that is worse than when we entered it.

I am a profound pessimist both about life and about human relations and about politics and ecology. Humans are inadequate and stupid creatures who sooner or later make a mess, and those who are trying to do good do a lot more damage than those who are muddling along.

The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago... had they happened to be within the reach of predatory human hands.

For 200 years we've been conquering nature. Now we're beating it to death.

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

It's a war, I think, to save the planet, really, from ourselves.

The landscape has been so transformed by ignorance, arrogance and greed that those who must prove their case are not those who call for forest protection, but those who call for business as usual.

We're in a war, the war of industrial civilization against the natural world.

No-one wants polluted air, water or land, denuded forests or extinct animal species. But the error most people make is to trust the legislature to prevent these tragedies. What they don’t realize is how big a role the legislature has played historically in causing environmental destruction.

The coal industry held the title deed to the future and devoured the land, people, and culture with a Satanic appetite.

God gave us the earth. We have dominion over the plants, the animals, the seas…. God said “Earth is yours. Take it. Rape it. It’s yours.”

There probably were floods when our land was newly settled but before we cut our trees so recklessly they were not so serious. If we go to the headwaters of our rivers and we will find the cause and the results which follow in the wake of man's destructive ignorance.

Even the wealth of the U.S. cannot protect against the levels of environmental destruction that we are unleashing.

We all see that, today, man can destroy the foundation of his existence: his Earth.

Nature was developed to resist the onslaughts of capitalism, but it's really not a very good defense - rather like resisting a steamroller with a Christmas tree ornament.

The fossil fuel industry is destroying our planet and everything that we love.

I think my job is to leave some evidence for future generations that there was somebody who cared while we were destroying everything.

We humans have this idea that the ocean is so big, so vast, so resilient that it doesn't matter what we do to it. That may have been true 1,000 years ago. But in the last 100, especially the last 50 years, we have destroyed the assets that make our lives possible.

Men will never rest till they've spoiled the earth and destroyed the animals.

In reality, the main thing that keeps me awake at night is probably the destruction of the planet that's what gets me pretty upset.

They're still building and testing / But what can we do / Condemning the seas and the land and the trees to a tomb