Environmentalist quotes

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Once a new technology rolls over you, if you're not part of the steamroller, you're part of the road.

- Stewart Brand

Over the next ten years, I predict, the mainstream of the environmental movement will reverse its opinion and activism in four major areas: population growth, urbanization, genetically engineered organisms, and nuclear power.

- Stewart Brand

Nature takes no account of even the most reasonable of human excuses.

- Joseph Wood Krutch

Poetry, mythology, and religion represent the world as man would like to have it, while science represents the world as he gradually comes to discover it.

- Joseph Wood Krutch

Nothing is too great or too good to be true. Do not believe that we can imagine things better than they are. In the long run, in the ultimate outlook, in the eye of the Creator, the possibilities of existence, the possibilities open to us, are beyond our imagination.

- Joseph Wood Krutch

A book unlike a television program, moving picture or any other 'modern means of communication' can wait for years, yet be available at any moment when it happens to be needed.

- Joseph Wood Krutch

We have wished, we eco-freaks, for a disaster or for a social change to come and bomb us into Stone Age, where we might live like Indians in our valley, with our localism, our appropriate technology, our gardens, our homemade religion-guilt-free at last!

- Stewart Brand

Want to know where the action in a culture is? Watch where new language is turning up and where the lawyers collect, usually in that sequence.

- Stewart Brand

Tool - something with a use on one end and a grasp on the other end.

- Stewart Brand

This is pretty much the infrastructural stuff that comes along with large quantities of energy. Whichever technology we are looking at has serious hazardous issues.

- Stewart Brand

There's no unemployment in squatter cities. Everyone works. One-sixth of humanity is there. It's soon going to be more than that.

- Stewart Brand

There should always be in sight the draw — a kind of a beacon that draws you on through the labyrinth.

- Stewart Brand

The urgent finds you; you have to find the important. Importance is not fast. It is slow. It is not superficial. It is deep. And as a result, it's extremely powerful. When important matters go wrong, they undermine everything. When they go right, they sustain everything.

- Stewart Brand

The main problem with solar on the Earth's surface is that it is so intermittent, and we don't have decent storage yet.

- Stewart Brand

The great problem with the future is that we die there. This is why it is so hard to take the future personally, especially the longer future, because that world is suffused with our absence.

- Stewart Brand

The amusements of broadcast consist mainly of songs, stories, and games, just as in tribal life. The songs and stories are mostly about courtship, the games mostly played by men, just as in tribal life.

- Stewart Brand

Science is the only news. When you scan a news portal or magazine, all the human interest stuff is the same old he-said-she-said, the politics and economics the same cyclical dramas, the fashions a pathetic illusion of newness; even the technology is predictable if you know the science behind it. Human nature doesn't change much; science does, and the change accrues, altering the world irreversibly

- Stewart Brand

Redefine the possible.

- Stewart Brand

Programming (or making music) at night is dreamtime, a period exclusively mental, utterly absorbed, sustained and timeless, placeless, disembodied.

- Stewart Brand

One advantage of a solar collector in space: It would be some kind of origami thing that would unfold and be relatively light because it doesn't have gravity to deal with.

- Stewart Brand