A quote expounding an environmentalist views
Many politicians adopt 'green' policies to achieve mastery over nature and subdue it for their own purposes. Environmentalists are uneasy about any anthropogenic premises and suggest that the eco-centric approach is an arrogant form of speciseim which seems to suggest we have the right to be in control. Nature needs to be nurtured, preserved and protected for its own sake, not just out of concern for our own interests. A famous response made in 1855 by a Red Indian, Chief Seattle expounds an environmentalists views: ''How can you buy or sell the sky, the warmth of the land? The idea is strange to us. If we do not own the freshness of the air and sparkle of the water, how can you buy them? We know that the white man does not understand our ways. One portion of land is the same to him as the next, for he is a stranger who comes in the night and takes from the land whatever he needs. The Earth is not his brother, but his enemy, and when he has conquered it, he moves on.