Ecology Quotes

We have become, by the power of a glorious evolutionary accident called intelligence, the stewards o...

A forest ecology is a delicate one. If the forest perishes, its fauna may go with it. The Athshean w...

We can and must respond creatively to the triple crisis and simultaneously overcome dehumanization, ...

Let me outline briefly as I can what seem to me the characteristics of these opposite kinds of mind....

If [the loss of fertility of the soil and the loss of soil as a renewable resource] does happen, we ...

Here's where redesign begins in earnest, where we stop trying to be less bad and we start figuring o...

Before I went to college I read two books. I read a book “Moral Mazes” by Robert Jackall which is a ...

One of the anomalies of modern ecology is the creation of two groups, each of which seems barely awa...

Above all we should, in the century since Darwin, have come to know that man, while now captain of t...

Now observe that in all the propaganda of the ecologists—amidst all their appeals to nature and plea...

I think of two landscapes- one outside the self, the other within. The external landscape is the one...

A thought that stayed with me was that I had entered a private place in the earth. I had seen expose...

The Holy Land is everywhere

There is but one world and everything that is imaginable is necessary to it. For this world also whi...

Don't you find it a beautiful clean thought, a world empty of people, just uninterrupted grass, and ...

To reverse the effects of civilization would destroy the dreams of a lot of people. There's no way a...

You can't study the darkness by flooding it with light.

We can all avoid travel that is unnecessary we do not need to travel around the world when the sourc...

There is a patent conflict between the need to reverse or at least to control the impact of our econ...

A nation that destroys its soils destroys itself. Forests are the lungs of our land, purifying the a...

The environment is not an "other" to us. It is not a collection of things that we encounter. Rather,...

Progress is measured by the speed at which we destroy the conditions that sustain life.

Men say they know many things;But lo! they have taken wings, —The arts and sciences,And a thousand a...

I see young men, my townsmen, whose misfortune it is to have inherited farms, houses, barns, cattle,...

I thus found that the student who wishes for a shelter can obtain one for a lifetime at an expense n...

Out yonder they may curse, revile, and torture one another, defile all the human instincts, make a s...

These folk are hewers of trees and hunters of beasts; therefore we are their unfriends, and if they ...

All have their worth and each contributes to the worth of the others.

It is very easy to grow tired at collecting; the period of a low tide is about all men can endure. A...

It shouldn't be the consumer's responsibility to figure out what's cruel and what's kind, what's env...

We need myths that will help us to identify with all our fellow-beings, not simply with those who be...

It's the last great free-for-all robbery of everybody's earth.

Man wants to see nature and evolution as separate from human activities. There is a natural world, a...

If the bee disappeared off the face of the earth, man would only have four years left to live.

More grass means less forest; more forest less grass. But either-or is a construction more deeply wo...

I love it when people yell at me about the environment and then I tell 'em I'm burning 90% cleaner t...

It isn’t the world at stake, Ender. Just us. Just humankind. As far as the rest of the earth is conc...

What need does the earth have of us?

Only within the 20th Century has biological thought been focused on ecology, or the relation of the ...

The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us, t...

The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn