Quotes About Ecology

A lot of animals are finding themselves in positions where their habitats are being destroyed.

If you're eating grassland meat, your carbon footprint is light and possibly even negative.

Continuity is at the heart of conservatism: ecology serves that heart.

I wish people would take more care of the countryside.

That inefficiency is masked because growth and progress are measured in money, and money does not give us information about ecological systems, it only gives information about financial systems.

Whatever happens to the great systems of nature will also be what happens to us.

In some cases, it's not just about cleaning up the factories. It's about cleaning up the nearby rivers and lakes that have been tainted with heavy metals.

We only have one earth. Let's take care of it.

Wilson defines biophilia as "the urge to affiliate with other forms of life.

Though we often see ourselves as separate from nature, humans are also part of that wildness.

The more high tech we become the more nature we need.

Roszak argued that modern psychology has split the inner life from the outer life, and that we have repressed our "ecological unconscious" that provides "our connection to our evolution on earth.

Nature was still out there. There was less of it, to be sure, but it was there just the same.

Something shines out, a truth so self-evident that the words dictate themselves. We're cashing in a billion years of planetary savings bonds and blowing it on assorted bling.

In its broadest ecological context, economic development is the development of more intensive ways of exploiting the natural environment.

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What's good is what's good for the land.

Some of the gardeners, Nanao said, worked according to the precepts of Muso Soseki, others according to other Japanese Zen masters; others still to Fu Hsi, the legendary inventor of the Chinese system of geomancy called feng shui; others to Persian gardening gurus, including Omar Khayyam; or to Leopold or Jackson, or other early American ecologists, like the nearly forgotten biologist Oskar Schnelling; and so on. These

What's good is what's good for the land. Instead of working for profit, we do whatever is good for the land. Taking care of the land takes better care of the people over the long haul.

The two most important things to remember in business are: to be aware of the consequential impact on ecology, and a caring relationship between employer and employee.

Homo sapiens look like an ecological serial killer.

Were the Australian extinction an isolated event, we could grant humans the benefit of the doubt. But the historical record makes Homo sapiens look like an ecological serial killer.

Prophets of doom warn that sooner or later Homo sapiens will exhaust the raw materials and energy of planet Earth. And what will happen then?