“Those who perpetrate pollution and cause the defilement of all that is natural and good in the world are antithetical to the creation…as the physical world is made for the benefit of all who exist and live in the world.”

- Zoroastrian Faith Statement

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“The primeval despoiling of the world created with a good purpose mirrors society’s role today, and this is what Zoroastrianism seeks to reverse. The religion uniquely attributes all that brings misery, hatred, vice, and pollution not to the whimsical acts of a Divine Being but to the unthinking attack of a malicious and hostile spirit whose innate nature is to destroy. As God’s finest creation, mankind must strive toward a perfect world by combating the forces of Evil through a process of restoration and renovation.”

from ”Zoroastrian Faith Statement,” prepared by the Athravan Education Trust and Zoroastrian Studies and reprinted in Faith in Conservation by Martin Palmer with Victoria Finlay, published by the World Bank, 2003