Quotes by Dave Foreman

“Our environmental problems originate in the hubris of imagining ourselves as the central nervous system or the brain of nature. Were not the brain, we are a cancer on nature.”

“The optimum human population of earth is zero”

“I couldnt be more pleased, ... These kids are great here. They dont hardly know anyone in New Orleans ... but they wanted to do something.”

“We dont have the eyesore to deal with the hospital does,”

“We dont have the eyesore to deal with the hospital does.”

“We shall never understand the natural environment until we see it as a living organism. Land can be healthy or sick, fertile or barren, rich or poor, lovingly nurtured or bled white. Our present attitudes and laws governing the ownership and use of”

Humanity is the cancer of nature.

“Say that the percentage rate of growth slows from 2.1 percent to 1.7 percent a year over a few years while the absolute increase of yearly growth goes from sixty-four million to seventy-nine million to ninety-three million in that time. How can this be? Because there are more women giving birth at the lower rate.”