David Foreman famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

... do something. Pay your rent for the privilege of living on this beautiful, blue-green, living Earth.
-- David Foreman

#Beautiful #Blue #Earth Day
The human race could go extinct and I for one would not shed any tears.
-- David Foreman

#Animal #Race #Tears
The optimum human population of earth is zero.
-- David Foreman

#Zero #Animal #Population
Humanity is the cancer of nature.
-- David Foreman

#Cancer #Humanity
Our environmental problems originate in the hubris of imagining ourselves as the central nervous system or the brain of nature. We're not the brain, we are a cancer on nature.
-- David Foreman

#Cancer #Brain #Environmental
Phasing out the human race will solve every problem on earth, social and environmental.
-- David Foreman

#Race #Environmental #Earth
An Ice Age is coming and I welcome it as much-needed changing. I see no solution to our ruination of earth except for a drastic reduction of the human population.
-- David Foreman

#Ice #Age #Earth
I believe that human overpopulation is the fundamental problem on Earth Today" and, "We humans have become a disease, the Humanpox
-- David Foreman

#Believe #Ebola #Fundamentals
I founded Friends of the Earth to make the Sierra Club look reasonable. Then I founded the Earth Island Institute to make Friends of the Earth seem reasonable.
-- David Foreman

#Islands #Looks #Earth
We advocate biodiversity for biodiversity's sake. It may take our extinction to set things straight.
-- David Foreman

#Sake #May #Extinction
My three main goals would be to reduce human population to about 100 million worldwide, destroy the industrial infrastructure and see wilderness, with it's full complement of species, returning throughout the world.
-- David Foreman

#Goal #Population #Would Be
We must make this an insecure and inhospitable place for capitalists and their projects. We must reclaim the roads and plowed land, halt dam constructions, tear down existing dams, free shackled rivers and return to wilderness millions of acres of previously settled land.
-- David Foreman

#Insecure #Land #Rivers
We must all work together in order to save the environment and the world that we live in from further change.
-- David Foreman

#Order #Working Together #World

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