Environmental Stewardship Quotes - Page 2

• We are like ignorant shepherds living on a site where great civilizations once flourished. The shepherds play with the fragments that pop up to the surface, having no notion of the beautiful structures of which they were once a part.

  Allan Bloom

  Beautiful, Civilization, Play

  Allan Bloom (2008). “Closing of the American Mind”, p.239, Simon and Schuster

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• My belief is that what comes across on the television is a capture of my enthusiasm and my passion for wildlife.

  Steve Irwin

  Passion, Television, Enthusiasm

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• There is in all animals a sense of duty that man condescends to call instinct.

  Robert Breault

  Animal, Men, Humanity

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• All over the world the wildlife that I write about is in grave danger. It is being exterminated by what we call the progress of civilization.

  Gerald Durrell

  Writing, Civilization, Progress

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• Traditional people of Indian nations have interpreted the two roads that face the light-skinned race as the road to technology and the road to spirituality. We feel that the road to technology.... has led modern society to a damaged and seared earth. Could it be that the road to technology represents a rush to destruction, and that the road to spirituality represents the slower path that the traditional native people have traveled and are now seeking again? The earth is not scorched on this trail. The grass is still growing there.

  William Commanda

  Native American, Technology, Two

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• We have been God-like in our planned breeding of our domesticated plants and animals, but we have been rabbit-like in our unplanned breeding of ourselves.

  Arnold J. Toynbee

  Animal, Cynical, Population

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