Ecology Quotes
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The tragedy is that there is so much more incentive - money - to destroy the ecology than there is to preserve it.
— Paul Watson
A nation that destroys its soils destroys itself. Forests are the lungs of our land, purifying the air and giving fresh strength to our people.
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
You can't study the darkness by flooding it with light.
— Edward Abbey
We are, quite literally, gambling with the future of our planet- for the sake of hamburgers
— Peter Singer
The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us, the less taste we shall have for destruction.
— Rachel Carson
The ecological principle of unity in diversity grades into a richly mediated social principle; hence my use of the term social ecology.
— Murray Bookchin
Reading stimulates the ecology of the imagination.
— Richard Louv
We must know the facts and be guided by them...nature does not forgive fools nor does she spare them the penalties of their folly
— Ernest Callenbach
With laissez-faire and price atomic, Ecology's Uneconomic, But with another kind of logic Economy's Unecologic.
— Kenneth E. Boulding
We study the past ecological history, with the conscience of the present ecological conditions. The key to predict future aquatic ecosystem changes.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Probably the most visible example of unintended consequences, is what happens every time humans try to change the natural ecology of a place.
— Margaret J. Wheatley
Your planet's immune system is trying to get rid of you.
— Kurt Vonnegut
You certainly don't fuck about trying to ride manta rays.
— Douglas Adams
Respect the delicate ecology of your delusions.
— Tony Kushner
New cells are born everyday and old cells die, but they have neither funerals nor birthdays.
— Thich Nhat Hanh
In my pursuit of historical ecology, I find the pleasure of reading history.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Luke would always remember the day of his drowning
— Alison Cooklin
Man must learn that his current path is not suitable for Earth, and soon, Earth won't be suitable for Man.
— Donald L. Hicks
Economists don't seem to have noticed that the economy sits entirely within the ecology.
— Carl Safina
The Holy Land is everywhere
— Black Elk
We haven't got a spare planet. If we had it, we would sell it long time ago.
— Ljupka Cvetanova
This isn't about keeping mountains looking pretty. Ending mountaintop removal is about keeping humanity alive.
— Rivera Sun
Archeology and ecology can go hand in hand.
— Carlos Salinas De Gortari
If the long arc of history bends toward social justice, it also bends toward environmental justice and ecological sanity.
— David Jaber
Only an elaborate treatise in ecology could do justice to the subject of what went wrong,
— James C. Scott
If a product is more expensive than another one and more sustainable in ecology, consumers will not buy it. We're in a very sharp competitive market.
— Jean-Claude Van Damme
I've always liked trees. And then, growing up, I took an interest in ecology, hedges being destroyed, the landscape being turned into prairies.
— Clive Anderson
Human use, population, and technology have reached that certain stage where mother Earth no longer accepts our presence with silence.
— Dalai Lama XIV
So you know that all living things share the same energy source and that every action that humans do to nature will affect everything on this planet.
— Alison Cooklin
There is an increasing sense of what can be called legal pollution.
— Thomas Ehrlich
Now it's the bee... Gees! Bees are now endangered species... Without them life won't be sweet!
— Ana Claudia Antunes
If we begin to diligently care for the environment, it will greatly improve human health.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
The kingdom of God is the true ecology of the human soul.
— Dallas Willard
We are as gods and might as well get good at it.
— Stewart Brand
The world as first seen by the child becomes his lifelong standard of excellence, mindless of the fact he is admiring the ruins of his parents.
— William Stolzenburg
That land is a community is the basic concept of ecology, but that land is to be loved and respected is an extension of ethics.
— Aldo Leopold
The free-range chickens and Priuses are great, but they alone aren't adequate tools for creating a truly different society and ecology.
— Rebecca Solnit
We are seeing the birth of a new perspective of the world, where ecology and economics are two sides of the same coin.
— Leif Johansson
Georgia Author Brenda Sutton Rose captures some of the conflicted and captivating characters of a rapidly changing South.
— Janisse Ray
We shall be reduced to gnaw the very crust of the earth for nutriment.
— Henry David Thoreau
A society devoted to self-destruction and waste but unwilling to acknowledge its indulgent ways.
— Dan Simmons
Becoming vegan is the most important and direct change we can immediately make to save the planet and its species.
— Chris Hedges
Cognitive evolution is marked by many peaks of specialization. The ecology of each species is key. The
— Frans De Waal
Progress is measured by the speed at which we destroy the conditions that sustain life.
— George Monbiot
I love it when people yell at me about the environment and then I tell 'em I'm burning 90% cleaner than them.
— Neil Young
Don't you find it a beautiful clean thought, a world empty of people, just uninterrupted grass, and a hare sitting up?
— D.H. Lawrence
What need does the earth have of us?
— Pope Francis
The word ecology is derived from the Greek oikos, the word for home.
— Robin Wall Kimmerer
His mouth is full of ecology, his mind is full of fumes.
— Wallace Stegner
I think still it is very fine not to want children. There are far too many people in the world. It is my contribution to ecology
— Helen Mirren
The story of our human lineage is continually enlarged, almost daily, by discoveries from physical anthropology, archeology, and genetics.
— Richard J. Borden
The threat to the planet is us. It's actually not a threat to the planet - it's a threat to us.
— Margaret Atwood
We can all avoid travel that is unnecessary; we do not need to travel around the world when the source of all joy and all beauty is right within us.
— Eknath Easwaran
I do see a lot of the hard end of ecology, and my feeling is that we live on a super-exciting planet but a super-fragile one.
— Bear Grylls
Wolves directly affect the entire ecosystem, not just moose populations, their main prey, because less moose equals more tree growth
— Rolf Peterson
Today humanity faces a stark choice: save the planet and ditch capitalism, or save capitalism and ditch the planet.
— Fawzi Ibrahim
Ecological awareness expands the context of life; it also enlarges who we are as a person.
— Richard J. Borden
Ecology should be object lessons that the world sees, that explains in a visceral, physical way, the attributes of God.
— Joel Salatin
The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Knowing nature is part of knowing God. Faith directs us to the invisible God, but leads us back from God to the entire visible world.
— Arnold Albert Van Ruler
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[A]ny species that exempts itself from the rules of competition ends up destroying the community in order to support its own expansion.
— Daniel Quinn
Where the quality of life goes down for the environment, the quality of life goes down for humans.
— George Holland
Permaculture creates a cultivated ecology, which is designed to produce more human and animal food than is generally found in nature.
— Bill Mollison
Love the Earth You Make Love On
— Susan Block
By ecology we understand the total science of the connections of the organism to the surrounding external world.
— Ernst Haeckel
Listen, O lord of the meeting rivers,things standing shall fall,
but the moving ever shall stay. — Basava
If the bee disappeared off the face of the earth, man would only have four years left to live.
— Maurice Maeterlinck
Here's where redesign begins in earnest, where we stop trying to be less bad and we start figuring out how to be good.
— William McDonough
The Earth was singing her revolution. She was calling her brave men and women to her defense.
— Rivera Sun
A forest ecology is a delicate one. If the forest perishes, its fauna may go with it. The Athshean word for world is also the word for forest.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
Over and over again, we must stress that a healthy ecology is the basis for a healthy economy.
— Claudine Schneider
Man has the lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end up destroying the earth.
— Albert Schweitzer
...we do not own these woods. They own us.
— Timothy Goodwin
In eating ecology love murder vegan vegetarianism flesh eating is unprovoked murder.
— Benjamin Franklin
Ecology and spirituality are fundamentally connected, because deep ecological awareness, ultimately, is spiritual awareness.
— Fritjof Capra
Living democracy grows like a tree, from the bottom up.
— Vandana Shiva