Quotes About Ecology

It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that any way of living that's based on the use of non-renewable resources won't last.

The world owes an ecological debt to the African continent.

When a parasite moves to a new habitat, it can find new hosts through a process called the trans-species jump. Often, the new host has no resistance; it and the parasite haven't had time to adjust to each other through natural selection (it is frequently not in the best interest of a parasite to kill its host quickly).

In many environments, take away the ants and there would be partial collapses in many of the land ecosystems.

I wish being a beekeeper, which I am, gave you a free pass on the carbon footprint, but it doesn't.

The designer who aspires to build on the scale of an ecology must abandon the conceit of absolute control of her medium and instead seek the abstract understanding of the scientist, and then apply this understanding to natural processes with the force-subverting skill of the jujitsu master. We cannot specify an ecology, but nor are we powerless to affect its evolution.

Creating a landfill in your home does not mean that you're saving the environment. You just moved the garbage.

PREDATORS RUN FOR THEIR DINNER. PREY RUN FOR THEIR LIVES. —OLD ECOLOGIST'S PROVERB

while anecdotal evidence suggests that lions might still be present in small numbers, a survey undertaken over four months in 2008/09 for the African Journal of Ecology obtained 'no unequivocal evidence' of their continued presence.

they had thrived on Earth for millions of years, but their own waste killed them.

I want to show people that environmentalism can be fun!

It truly seems to me that there is some kind of shift happening towards ecological awareness - not just in terms of PR for the science.

Now, more than ever, we need nature as a balancing agent.

If nature were a bank, they would have already rescued it.

Missoula has a culture uniquely its own, however, thanks to the fusion of its gritty frontier heritage with the university's myriad impacts. UM has nationally distinguished programs in biology and ecology and is perhaps even more renowned for its literary bona fides. The faculty of the university's Creative Writing Program, founded in 1920, has included such influential authors as Richard Hugo, James Crumley, and William Kittredge.

We called her Mother Earth. Because she gave birth to us, and then we sucked her dry.

Para mí, el azul mediterráneo ya no es bonito. La transparencia de sus aguas, tan valorada por los veraneantes, es la misma que la de una piscina estéril. En sus playas hay pocos olores y pocas aves, y sus profundidades van camino de vaciarse; gran parte del pescado que ahora se consume en Europa procede ilegalmente, sin que nadie indague mucho, del océano del oeste de África. Miro el azul y no veo un mar, sino una postal, fina como un papel.

Changing how we eat will not be enough, on its own, to save the planet, but we cannot save the planet without changing how we eat.

All told, farmed animals in the United States produce 130 times as much waste as the human population —

One study found that roughly 4.5 million sea animals are killed as bycatch in longline fishing every year.

scientists now argue that the primordial source of all flu strains is migrating aquatic birds such as ducks and geese that have roamed the earth for more than a hundred million years. The flu, it turns out, is all about our relationship with birds.

animals differ radically among islands that have "the same geological nature

All water is connected and only land and people are discontinuous. And

I'm not an animal lover if that means you think things are nice if you can pat them, but I am intoxicated by animals.