Quotes About Ecology

I never wanted to be a scientist per se. I wanted to be a naturalist.

Up to 80 percent of the fish that we catch spend at least part of their lives in estuaries.

I think that there are empty ecological niches in the literary landscape crying to be filled and when a book more or less fills a niche it's seized on, even when it's a far from perfect fit.

Modern society will find no solution to the ecological problem unless it takes a serious look at its lifestyle

Modern Society will find no solution to the ecological problem unless it takes a serious look at its lifestyles.

I came to see that man finds meaning in his existence only through the active demonstration of his human self, a cosmos comprising the entire constellation of life's factors: culture, civilization, tradition, history, ideals, facts, physical conditions, one's mental state, the ecology, and so on.

Don't blow it - good planets are hard to find.

Over increasingly large areas of the United States, spring now comes unheralded by the return of the birds, and the early mornings are strangely silent where once they were filled with the beauty of bird song.

The edge of the sea is a strange and beautiful place.

Biological diversity is messy. It walks, it crawls, it swims, it swoops, it buzzes. But extinction is silent, and it has no voice other than our own.

I also have an idea for a book on biodiversity, and why and how we should be conserving it.

I like biology a lot.

Brazil has one of the greatest natural patrimonies in terms of biodiversity.

Otherness is what I have always liked about bugs.

Some eco groups suggest that as many as 73 million sharks are killed globally every year. Hammerheads, blue sharks, mako sharks - they're disappearing, and they ain't coming back.

I would suggest everyone to check on Google how we can save our environment.

Fair rules and competition within a marketlike ecology of states promoted capital investment, innovation, and rational cooperation in a context of low transaction costs.

Since language is community, if the cognitive ecology of a language is altered, so is the community.

Something will have gone out of us as a people if we ever let the remaining wilderness be destroyed; if we permit the last virgin forests to be turned into comic books and plastic cigarette cases; if we drive the few remaining members of the wild species into zoos or to extinction; if we pollute the last clear air and dirty the last clean streams and push our paved roads through the last of the silence . . .

Something will have gone out of us as a people if we ever let the remaining wilderness be destroyed.

The idea of unlimited growth... needs to be seriously questioned on at least two counts: the availability of basic resources and... the capacity of the environment to cope with the degree of interference implied. - E.F. Schumacher

The ecological teaching of the Bible is simply inescapable: God made the world because He wanted it made. He thinks the world is good, and He loves it. It is His world; He has never relinquished title to it. And He has never revoked the conditions, bearing on His gift to us of the use of it, that oblige us to take excellent care of it.

Once plants and animals were raised together on the same farm which therefore neither produced unmanageable surpluses of manure, to be wasted and to pollute the water supply, nor depended on such quantities of commercial fertilizer. The genius of America farm experts is very well demonstrated here: they can take a solution and divide it neatly into two problems.

The wildness of the soil that we call fertility begins to diminish, and the soil itself begins to flee from us in water and wind.