Philosophy Quotes

"Conservation is hard to define because it means one thing to one man and another to another."

"The land ethic changes the role of Homo sapiens from conqueror of the land community to plain member and citizen of it."

"The touchstone of an enlightened civilization is its treatment of its wild creatures."

"Land conservation is the basis of all conservation policy."

"The land ethic simply enlarges the boundaries of the community."

"A conservationist is one who is humbly aware that with each stroke he is writing his signature on the face of his land."

"Land is not a commodity."

"Every creature has intrinsic worth."

"The land ethic presumes respect for fellow-members."

"Conservation is getting nowhere because it is incompatible with our Abrahamic concept of land."

"There is a conflict between what is and what could be."

"The earth's riches are not infinite, but human greed is."

"Industrial civilization is a grand mistake that grows more obvious each day."

"Every stream is connected to every other; every action has consequence."

"We measure progress by the wrong metrics and wonder why we are unhappy."

"We stand at a crossroads: the path of convenience or the path of conscience."

"In nature's economy, nothing is wasted; everything has value."

"The climate crisis is fundamentally a crisis of values."

"Nature is not a resource to be exploited - it is the foundation of all life."

"Science tells us what is - wisdom helps us decide what ought to be."

"Negritude is not a philosophy. It is not a religion. It is a way of living with the world."

"Our task is to create a new humanism."

"We inherit the future from our choices today."

"Consumerism is killing the planet, and we need to fundamentally rethink our relationship with stuff."

"Short-term thinking is killing the planet."

"The climate crisis is a symptom of our economic system's fundamental flaws."

"Climate change is the ultimate expression of our disconnect from nature."

"The climate crisis is a call to reimagine what it means to be human."

"I would rather be a man of questions than a man of answers."

"Philosophy without action is mere abstraction."