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

Man is a blind, witless, low brow, anthropocentric clod who inflicts lesions upon the earth.

Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow creatures is amusing in itself.

Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.

When a man wantonly destroys one of the works of man we call him a vandal. When he destroys one of the works of God we call him a sportsman.

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

We who revel in nature's diversity and feel instructed by every animal tend to brand Homo sapiens as the greatest catastrophe since the Cretaceous extinction.

Complete adaptation to environment means death. The essential point in all response is the desire to control environment.

Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.

We have nowhere else to go... this is all we have.

Lack of awareness of the basic unity of organism and environment is a serious and dangerous hallucination.

What is tolerance? -- it is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly -- that is the first law of nature.

He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life away in fruitless efforts.

Married love between man and woman is bigger than oaths guarded by right of nature.

There are mystically in our faces certain characters which carry in them the motto of our souls, wherin he that cannot read A, B, C may read our natures.

Such is the nature of men, that howsoever they may acknowledge many others to be more witty, or more eloquent, or more learned; yet they will hardly believe there be many so wise as themselves.

He got a corporation mind. He doesn't believe in nature; he puts his trust and distrust in man.

We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature - trees, flowers, grass - grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence... We need silence to be able to touch souls.

Dreams come true; without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them.

As for evolution, I have a hard time believing that billions of years ago two protozoan bumped into each other under a volcanic cesspool and evolved into Cindy Crawford.