Man will survive as a species for one reason: He can adapt to
the destructive effects of our power-intoxicated technology and of
our ungoverned population growth, to the dirt, pollution and noise
of a New York or Tokyo. And that is the tragedy. It is not man the
ecological crisis threatens to destroy but the quality of human
life. ~René Dubos, quoted in Life, 28 July 1970
Racial injustice, war, urban blight, and environmental rape have a
common denominator in our exploitative economic system. ~Channing
E. Phillips, speech, Washington, D.C., 22 April 1970
Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the
earth. ~Henry David Thoreau
The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago...
had they happened to be within the reach of predatory human hands.
~Havelock Ellis, The Dance of Life, 1923
