Quotes About Ecology

A large body of literature suggests that wellbeing is intimately linked to attachment - not only to other people, but also to the natural world.

I've done a lot of different things with community, going green, and not just making sure of improving the wellness of people and their bodies, but of the earth, too.

Conserving habitats is a wellspring for the next industrial revolution.

Historically, grizzlies ranged from Alaska to Mexico, with at least 50,000 bears living in the western half of the contiguous United States. With European colonization, the bears were shot, poisoned, and trapped to the brink of extinction.

Without sharks, you take away the apex predator of the ocean, and you destroy the entire food chain.

If people are prepared to eat locally and seasonally, then they probably do pretty well in terms of environmental impact.

We will preserve the environment.

Preserving a river or a creek can bring a lot of revenue.

Conservation is now a dead word.

I think, in Denmark, we are quite good when it comes to the environment.

I wouldn't want anyone to destroy the earth.

The planet will get better; it's us that won't be here because we'll destroy the environment.

We often destroy ecology-based livelihoods in the name of employment creation.

We speak often of 'destroying the planet' when what we mean is destroying its habitability for humans.

If we want to prevent both climate and ecological catastrophes, the key task is to minimise the amount of land we use to feed ourselves, while changing the way the remaining land is farmed. Instead, governments almost everywhere pour public money into planetary destruction.

When birds burp, it must taste like bugs.

We need to have a course in school that teaches about ecology and gastronomy. I could imagine that all children could eat at school for free and that the cafeteria would become part of the school's curriculum.

native: a plant or animal that has evolved in a given place over a period of time sufficient to develop complex and essential relationships with the physical environment and other organisms in a given ecological community.

Ecosystems function locally, not globally. Local extinction, the disappearance of a species within, say, the woodlot down the street, or even your front yard, is now predicted to compromise the productivity of that woodlot and your yard.

On average, native plants support thirteen times more caterpillar species than non-native plants.

In most cases and most places, the design of broadly functional, ecologically sound, resource-conserving residential gardens requires a carefully balanced mix of native and non-native plants. It's time to stop worrying about where plants come from and instead focus on how they function in today's ecology. After all, it's the only one we have.

Planetologist call it the conundrum of unforeseen ecological consequence. I call it the whack-a-mole rule of human meddling. She clasped both hands like a child hammering. WHACK! We change something here. Oops, that makes another problem pop up there where we didn't expect it. WHACK! So, we whack that mole. Oops! We're so smart that we're a menace.

Look at systematic patterns of cultural variation as they pertain to the best and worst of our behaviors. Explore how different types of brains produce different culture and different types of culture produce different brains. In other words, how culture and biology coevolve.3 See the role of ecology in shaping culture.

In other words, the more genomically complex the organism, the larger the percentage of the genome devoted to gene regulation by the environment.