Quotes About Ecology

The earth is a beautiful planet.

How we are using up our home, how we are living and polluting the planet is frightening. It was evident when I was a child. It's more evident now.

Take good care of our fragile planet.

We live on a finite planet. We have finite resources, and we're running out of good, arable land.

I think the dangers are different now. Our abuse of the planet and our resources is an anxiety.

What we're doing to the planet is inexcusable.

As a biologist, I can't think of myself as anything but an animal among animals and plant.

I got busy with planting saplings after I started the Green Globe initiative.

I think humans have to learn a new way of dwelling on this earth. A way of living with their companions: animals, plants and fish.

Styrofoam and plastic milk jugs are biodegradable! Do you know what isn't biodegradable? Paper!

If we have any hope of finding ways for seven billion people to live well on planet with finite resources, we have to learn to use our resources efficiently. Plastic bags are neither efficient nor environmentally friendly.

It's a very strange experience to be four or five days from the closest point of land, and you see more plastic than life.

The world depends on fungi, because they are major players in the cycling of materials and energy around the world.

The United States has long thought of itself as the land of infinite plenty, and historically we did have abundant resources. But now we are gradually exhausting our fisheries, our topsoil, our water. On top of that, we're coming to the end of world resources.

I take a biocentric point of view. I look at things from the point of view of the Earth and the laws of ecology. As opposed to the anthropocentric point of view, where everything revolves around humanity.

When we realize we can make a buck cleaning up the environment, it will be done!

Whether you believe in climate change or not, we want clean air. We want clean water for the American people.

We're taking climate change seriously. But it's not the only environmental issue that we face as a planet.

All I ask is that we compare human consciousness with spirochete ecology.

We truly have an ancient part of the brain that was about survival when we were prey but we seem to have gone past prey. We eat everything and nothing eats us.

I don't think the planet can survive people. It's not the other way around. I don't think the planet can survive.

If you look in the animal world, many, many organisms will enter into states of suspended animation.

Because the living environment is what really sustains us.

I agree on the need for environmental sustainability. It is no good raising gross national income while at the same time destroying natural assets.