Environmental Degradation Quotes

“What melody will our rivers remember if songbirds forget how to sing?”
― Sheniz Janmohamed, Firesmoke

“The scale of the mess we leave behind is proportionate to the level of respect we have for others.”
― Stewart Stafford

“Most police cars are the equivalent of an electrical room on wheels and it does not surprise me that police officers that spend time in such a biologically toxic environment are displaying aggression.”
― Steven Magee

“The human body when kept in an indoor environment of low lux light will not realize that it is daytime, as it cannot sense the increasing levels of daylight that the genetics are accustomed to. As such, by late morning your body may start sending a signal for you to sleep!”
― Steven Magee, Electrical Forensics

“The love for God is the love to protect the environment.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind

“They've been given an explanation of how things came to be this way, and this stills their alarm. This explanation covers everything, including the deterioration of the ozone layer, the pollution of the oceans, the destruction of the rain forests, and even human extinction—and it satisfies them. Or perhaps it would be more accurate to say that it pacifies them. They put their shoulders to the wheel during the day, stupefy themselves with drugs or television at night, and try not to think too searchingly about the world they're leaving their children to cope with.”
― Daniel Quinn, Ishmael

“There were three people in my home and I was the only one showing Electromagnetic Hypersensitivity and reactivity to the radio frequency transmitting utility meters. For these reasons I did not shield my home and took the route of adapting my body to the toxic electromagnetic environment.”
― Steven Magee, Curing Electromagnetic Hypersensitivity

“Any species that devours its natural environment will eventually fall victim to the resulting silence and I call the toxicity of silence: Extinction Silence”
― Steven Magee, Curing Electromagnetic Hypersensitivity

“I have never heard of an electromagnetically hypersensitive person recovering from the condition using shielding and Faraday cages, they just seem to become social lepers due to their increasing reactivity to the city environment and addicts to their shielded environment.”
― Steven Magee, Curing Electromagnetic Hypersensitivity

“Laziness has made our cities unclean. If we begin to work and act appropriately, we will clean our cities of any dirt.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!

“I have every expectation that cancer will become known as the disease of human evolution trying and failing to adapt to a significantly changed environment.”
― Steven Magee

“Every new source from which man has increased his power on earth has been used to diminish the prospects of his successors. All his progress has been made at the expense of damage to his environment which he cannot repair and could not foresee.”
― C.D. Darlington, The Evolution of Man and Society

“Because this is my land. I can feel it, tremendous, still primeval, looming, musing downward upon the tent, the camp—this whole puny evanescent clutter of human sojourn which after our two weeks will vanish, and in another week will be completely healed, traceless in this unmarked solitude. It is mine, though I have never owned a foot of it, and never will. I have never wanted to, not even after I saw that it is doomed, not even after I began to watch it retreat year by year before the onslaught of axe and saw and log-lines and then dynamite and plow. Because there was never any one for me to acquire and possess it from because it had belonged to no one man. It belonged to all; we had only to use it well, humbly, and with pride.”
― William Faulkner, Big Woods

“On what reasonable grounds would sincere, informed environmentalists refuse to join animal advocates in a campaign to protect increasingly threatened fish populations from the snapping teeth of humanity?”
― Lisa Kemmerer, Eating Earth: Environmental Ethics and Dietary Choice

“Incorrect radiation levels may be able to affect your sex drive and it may be proven in the future that human sex drive is governed more by radiation types and levels than any other factor, even more so than hormones! Generally, a feeling of contentment replaces sexual desire in natural radiation environments.”
― Steven Magee, Electrical Forensics

“Ionizing smoke detectors unnaturally raise the background radiation levels in the human environment.”
― Steven Magee, Electrical Forensics

“The human skin evolved in a natural electromagnetic radiation environment and is now in a very unnatural man-made one that is making many people sick.”
― Steven Magee, Electrical Forensics

“Still, who knew how the old mountain took retribution for having its insides clawed out.”
― Sandra Dallas, Whiter Than Snow

“Living in filth is dark doom. The light of awaken leads to cleanliness.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“he citizens must begin to work to clean the city and country of any dirt.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“The city is dirty due to the laziness of the citizens in the country.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“If human beings cannot inhabit the earth, where else could they live?”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“Modify the environmental radiation and you will change the course of evolution.”
― Steven Magee

“Mankind willfully changing the global electromagnetic radiation environment has created what I expect will become known as the man-made evolution era.”
― Steven Magee

“Man’s ingenuity always seems to help him rape the land… faster!”
― AJ Vosse

“America may say that it values science, but it sure as hell doesn't want to pay for it. Within environmental science in particular, we see the crippling effects that come from having been resource-hobbled for decades: degrading farmland, species extinction, progressive deforestation...The list goes on and on.”
― Hope Jahren, Lab Girl

“In the Amazon, you may walk for days without seeing a tree; in Beijing, the air is the colour of a bruise. Three thousand miles of litter floats in the Atlantic Ocean, plastic bags and old nappies, bumping against the side of the ships... I sat before a committee in Brussells and they said, ‘What do you want us to do about it? If we change now, we’ll destroy our own economies,’ and I said, ‘You have destroyed your own world”
― Claire North, The End of the Day

“We’ve got to hope that somehow it’s all going to come together,” Paul Crump, a herpetologist from the Houston Zoo who was directing the stalled waterfall project, told me. “We’ve got to hope that something will happen, and we’ll be able to piece it all together, and it will all be as it once was, which now that I say it out loud sounds kind of stupid.”
― Elizabeth Kolbert, The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History

“Humanity cannot keep expanding in numbers and relentless destruction and still expect everything to be ‘ok’. We moved far beyond ‘ok’ a very long time ago, the world is in crisis because of us. To believe otherwise is dangerous and delusional. In this finite world we have only two choices - to change ourselves to fit within it or die out.”
― Luke Eastwood

“...a study of all 50 U.S. States found that those states marked out by large inequalities of power in terms of income and ethnicity had weaker environmental policies and suffered greater ecological degradation. Furthermore, one study covering 50 countries found the more unequal a country is, the more likely the biodiversity of its landscape is to be under threat.”
― Kate Raworth, Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist