Quotes About Ecology

Human history is a Gaian dream.

A day spent praising the earth and lamenting man's pollutionist history makes you feel like a superior, sensitive soul.

This planet is our home. If we destroy the planet, we've destroyed our home, so it is fundamentally important.

We have a responsibility to look after our planet. It is our only home.

Mind severed from body, culture from planet- to lose our ground is to lose our home.

If you are energy-efficient and water-wise at home, then take all your good habits abroad with you.

Every green natural place we save saves a fragment of our sanity and gives us a little more hope that we have a future.

For the planet's sake, I hope we have bird flu or some other thing that will reduce the population, because otherwise we're doomed.

I believe our only hope for the future is to adopt a new conception of human ecology, one in which we start to reconstitute our concept of the richness in human capacity.

I think the best thing I can hope to achieve is to educate, or make aware, as many people as possible on how the little things they do every day really do affect our environment.

Soil, not oil, holds the future for humanity.

Humanity, in the desperate attempt to fit 8 billion or more people on the planet and give them a higher standard of living, is at risk of pushing the rest of life off the globe.

So important are insects and other land-dwelling arthropods that if all were to disappear, humanity probably could not last more than a few months.

The health of our seas determines the future of humanity.

Because normal human activity is worse for nature than the greatest nuclear accident in history.

The problem is that our whole tribe - if you will, the larger community of humanity itself - is on a death march ecologically and in terms of the intensification of violence and conflict.

Kids born today will see us navigate past the first greatest test of humanity, which is: can we actually be smart enough to live on a planet without destroying it?

Even as a waste disposal site, the world is finite.

Albatrosses and penguins are the last birds I'd want to murder.

There are some who can live without wild things and some who cannot.

Hunting and gathering are in my blood. But I've lived long enough to witness a diminution in the seas, and to notice a fragility where once I saw - or assumed - an endless bounty.

Dating back to Teddy Roosevelt, hunters have been the pillar of conservation in America, doing more than anyone to conserve wildlife and its habitat.

When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.

The human race will be the cancer of the planet.