Quotes About Ecology

Ecology and spirituality are fundamentally connected, because deep ecological awareness, ultimately, is spiritual awareness.

The intersection of spiritual, dark music and radical ecology is quite natural.

plastic-wrapped evermore?

A love of nature keeps no factories busy.

We shall be permitted to live on this planet only for as long as we treat all nature with compassion and intelligence.

If you want nature to treat you well, you must treat nature well. If you start destroying nature, nature will destroy you, and this basic moral precept is fundamental in our present knowledge of ecology and conservation. What we know now about ecology points to the fact that nature exists in the most delicate balance, and that anything which tends to upset the balance will produce consequences of the most unexpected character and often of the most disastrous character.

We can no more get out of a relationship with nature than we can get out of history.

Too often science seems oblivious to the fact that human beings have been interacting with nature over a long period of time ... and that what we mean by nature is, to some extent, a product of that history.

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Designing a system for intrinsic responsibility could mean, for example, requiring all towns or companies that emit wastewater into a stream to place their intake pipes downstream from their outflow pipe.

the competitive exclusion principle.

kangaroos. They were technically nocturnal

I speak for the trees, for the trees have no tongues.

I speak for the trees!

I am the Lorax who speaks for the trees, which you seem to be chopping as fast as you please!

infinite growth on a finite planet

If we were to wipe out insects alone on this planet, the rest of life and humanity with it would mostly disappear from the land. Within a few months.

I've become really interested in permaculture, simplifying my life and doing everything I can to develop more of a sustainable lifestyle.

By obtaining a sense of its place in the unfolding drama of life, set in an ecological theatre, so we can understand why it has become one of the leading players.

Any human being exists only as a member of the wider community of life, air, water, and soil. We have no existence apart from the living earth. We are Earth. What we do to Earth, we do to our self.

It is a fact that plants also have life like animals. But animals are endowed with mind, and nervous systems too while the plants do not possess the same.

The oxygen cycle, the nitrogen cycle, the carbon cycle, the water cycle - all of these are linked to the existence of life in the sea.

Planting trees, I myself thought for a long time, was a feel-good thing, a nice but feeble response to our litany of modern-day environmental problems. In the last few years, though, as I have read many dozens of articles and books and interviewed scientists here and abroad, my thinking on the issue has changed. Planting trees may be the single most important ecotechnology that we have to put the broken pieces of our planet back together.

Thomas Berry, in The Dream of the Earth,