Quotes About Ecology

it's human behavior, human social behavior, and in many cases abnormal human social behavior. And it is indeed a mess, a subject involving brain chemistry, hormones, sensory cues, prenatal environment, early experience, genes, both biological and cultural evolution, and ecological pressures, among other things.

Why has East Asia provided textbook examples of collectivism?21 The key is how culture is shaped by the way people traditionally made a living, which in turn is shaped by ecology. And in East Asia it's all about rice. Rice, which was domesticated there roughly ten thousand years ago, requires massive amounts of communal work. Not just backbreaking planting and harvesting, which are done in rotation because the entire village is needed to harvest each family's rice.

It is virtually impossible to understand how biology works outside the context of environment.

Fuller predicted that humanity had reached a critical evolutionary point. If humans did not evolve from greed and selfishness to generosity and abundance, humans—as an experiment on earth—would end. He often referred to the rich and powerful who hoarded "god's abundance" only for themselves as "blood clots." He believed that if humans did not "evolve" we would not only kill ourselves, but also kill the ecology of planet earth.

Any gastronome who is not an environmentalist is stupid, and any environmentalist who is not a gastronome is sad.

I will be very sad when global warming and toxins kill off all the toads and frogs and salamanders. Here's hoping we, as humans, figure out a way to be less stupid.

Where do we record the passing of wildlife? Who mourns the silent deaths of the small?

It's very, very dangerous to lose contact with living nature.

The first law of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts

It is folly to think that we can destroy one species and ecosystem after another and not affect humanity. When we save species, we're actually saving ourselves.

The Nation that destroys its soil destroys itself.

Man has too long forgotten that the earth was given to him for usufruct alone, not for consumption, still less for profligate waste.

Science that fails to embrace all living beings is far more dangerous than any virus!

Ecology is the overall science of which economics is a minor speciality.

Man's Place in Nature.

Nature, red in tooth and claw.

Mankind without Earth is Humanity without a Home

The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.

Every creature is a living instruction that runs the algorithm of nature.

An anarchist society, far from being a remote ideal, has become a precondition for the practice of ecological principles.

We are seeing the birth of a new perspective of the world, where ecology and economics are two sides of the same coin.

We won't have a society if we destroy the environment.

China has led the world in new tree planting; in fact, over the last several years, China has planted 40 percent as many tress as the rest of the world put together. Since 1981, all citizens of China older than age eleven (and younger than sixty) have been formally required to plant at least three trees per year. To date, China has planted approximately 100 million acres of new tress. Following China, the countries with the largest net gains in tress include the U.S., India, Vietnam, and Spain.

Por estudios realizados sobre otras especies en estado de superpoblación experimental, sabemos que llega un momento en el que el aumento de densidad de población alcanza un punto extremo en el que se destruye toda la estructura social.