73 Quotes by Garrett Hardin

We can't cure a shortage by increasing the supply.

The essence of dramatic tragedy is not unhappiness. It resides in the solemnity of the remorseless working of things.

The god who is reputed to have created fleas to keep dogs from moping over their situation must also have created fundamentalists to keep rationalists from getting flabby. Let us be duly thankful for out blessings.

What features of your daily life do you expect to be improved by a further increase in population?

The only thing we can really count on in this uncertain world is human unreliability itself.

The exquisite sight, sound, and smell of wilderness is many times more powerful if it is earned through physical achievement, if it comes at the end of a long and fatiguing trip for which vigorous good health is necessary. Practically speaking, this means that no one should be able to enter a wilderness by mechanical means.

We see only what we have names for.

(Technology reliability) x (Human reliability) = (System reliability)

In a competitive world of limited resources, total freedom of individual action is intolerable