Ralph Steadman Quotes

For how many people do you think might yet stand on this planet before the sun grows cold? That's the responsibility we hold in our hands.

Humanity has at least a dim, and growing, cognisance of the effects of its presence on this planet. The possibility that we might integrate that awareness into how we interface with the Earth system is one that should give us hope.

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

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

Awareness is key. In the absence of information, none of us know what is happening and what could be jeopardizing our health, our water supply, and our planet.

I'm convinced that the earth is much stronger than us.

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.

For millions of years, this world has been a great gift to nearly everything living on it, a planet whose atmosphere, temperature, air, water, seasons, and weather were precisely calibrated to allow us - the big us, including forests and oceans, species large and small - to flourish.

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

And I think that the environment is one very strong way to counterbalance the chaotic nature of our life.

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

I believe the American people care a lot about the environment.

We are going to inherit the earth; there is not the slightest doubt about that.

I believe in the protection of the environment that supports us all.

We won't have a society if we destroy the environment.

We need to think of the future and the planet we are going to leave to our children and their children.

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

The Anthropocentic Age - the first age in which humankind is the dominant species on the planet - cuts both ways: it is up to us to destroy or save the planet. We certainly have the ability.

Sooner or later, we will have to recognise that the Earth has rights, too, to live without pollution. What mankind must know is that human beings cannot live without Mother Earth, but the planet can live without humans.

Our challenge for the future is that we realize we are very much a part of the earth's ecosystem, and we must learn to respect and live according to the basic biological laws of nature.

We can make a concerted effort to stop poisoning the planet: that would be a good way of appeasing the gods.

We must give everyone a stake in the World’s environment.

I do believe this period of the 1980's will be remembered as the time the planet struck back. The planet is telling us we can't treat it this way anymore.

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

We always have to remind ourselves of how fragile life on this planet is and what responsibilities we have.