Ecosystem Harm Quotes

Water and air, the two essential fluids on which all life depends, have become global garbage cans.

By polluting clear water with slime you will never find good drinking water.

I have witnessed the takeover of my world by plastic.

Wilderness is harder and harder to find these days on this beautiful planet, and we're abusing our planet to the point of almost no return.

So much of the habitat destruction and pollution is based on the simple principle that we somehow have been given free license over other species to degrade the planet.

Once destroyed, nature's beauty cannot be repurchased at any price

Whether exotic wild animals have escaped or the owners have let them go, the problem is still there…. The damage has already been done.

When you start traveling and thinking from a global perspective, you realize how small the planet is and how predatory we are to its ecology.

Oh! You're the people ruining the rivers.

When you pollute a river, it's a supreme injustice to those who are downstream and those who live in the river who are not human beings.

I'm hopeful that we'll be able to study the ocean before we destroy it.

I love scuba diving. I'm an avid diver. And, there's this beautiful world that's more incredible than any CGI film we could ever make, that we're destroying, for what? It's heartbreaking to me.

Every fish in the ocean is in danger.

What they [psychedelics] cause is what I'm advocating, a fundamental revaluation of cultural values, because culture as we're practicing it currently is causing a lot of pain to a lot of people, and animals, and ecosystems, none of whom were ever allowed to vote on whether they wanted this process to go in this direction.

Solve global warming, eliminate the nuclear threat, and we will still have to confront the vastness of our species and the way it diminishes, without thinking, all the other species around it.

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

Food and the way we grow it and produce it are a major cause of environmental degradation.

Oil is drowning our oceans and drowning our boreal forests.

The moment we turn over the soil we start poisoning it and we go on poisoning it all the way through... and there's probably not a river in the United States that doesn't have pesticide poisoning in it. The fish are dying. The seas are getting polluted. All of these things are happening. The rain forests are going. That's what the context is.

If you ask the fish whether they'd rather have an oil spill or a season of fishing, I wouldn't be surprised if they'd vote for another blowout.

Swallows have disappeared, bees are dying out because of pesticides that should have been banned long ago - it's a scandal.