Quotes About Ecology

We live within the environment. So that directly relates with our survival, our life. So through that way, more concern of well being of humanity, then naturally concerned about environment.

Ecology is boring for the same reason that destruction is fun.

Life and 'Mind' are systemic processes.

The majority of life on Earth is microbial

But we have to look after mother nature so she can look after us - the water, the soil, the air and all the life within it.

The history of life on earth has been a history of interaction between living things and their surroundings.

Every thread you discover in the local web of life leads beyond your place to life elsewhere.

On your life, underestimating the proclivities of finches is likely to lead to great internal hemorrhaging.

Despite all of our pretenses and fantasies, we always have been and will remain a biological species tied to this particular biological world. Millions of years of evolution are indelibly encoded in our genes. History without the wildlands is no history at all.

All of the species that have attained eusociality, as I have stressed, live in fortified nest sites.

THE GREATEST CHALLENGE today, not just in cell biology and ecology but in all of science, is the accurate and complete description of complex systems.

Annie Dillard was a pioneer in her Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, which won a Pulitzer Prize in 1974. Among other notable examples are David M. Carroll's Following the Water: A Hydromancer's Notebook (2009); David George Haskell's The Forest Unseen (2012); and Dave Goulson's A Buzz in the Meadow: The Natural History of a French Farm (2015).

The human species is, in a word, an environmental hazard. It is possible that intelligence in the wrong kind of species was foreordained to be a fatal combination for the biosphere.

The original level of biodiversity is not likely to be regained in any period of time that has meaning for the human mind.

more efficient than vegetable food.

these species have evolved only rarely in evolution.

One planet, one experiment.

Innovations are always necessarily gradual and incremental, building on the accumulated insights of past humans. We are the cultural animal par excellence, and our ability to share the products of our individual creativity and pass them on to future generations is the key to our ecological dominance.30

The only way to GO GREEN is to keep mind dust and dirt clean.

The dominant culture eats entire biomes. No, that is too generous, because eating implies a natural biological relationship. This culture doesn't just consume ecosystems, it obliterates them, it murders them, one after another. This culture is an ecological serial killer, and it's long past time for us to recognize the pattern.

For the roots of plants are analogous to what is called the mouth in an animal, being the organ by which food is admitted.

Man, in his animal capacity, is qualified to subsist in every climate.

If you can't buy a hybrid car, your first question should be, 'What is the fuel economy of this car?'

The buffalo is all gone, and an Indian can't catch enough jack rabbits to subsist himself and his family, and then, there aren't enough jack rabbits to catch. What are they to do?