Quotes About Ecology

Probably the most visible example of unintended consequences, is what happens every time humans try to change the natural ecology of a place.

Take time everyday to shift from immersion in human-centric thinking to ecoexperience.

When one's world was impermanent, difficult endeavors, like procuring justice or balancing the ecology, need never be attempted. One need only make contributions to the ascendant hierarchy, cast one's eyes heavenward with an awed and anticipatory expression, while continuing to behave as selfishly as one liked. When everything is going to go pop, one needn't bother to provide for or preserve for the grandchildren.

The Simi is environmentally sound. Eat everything except for hooves

There is life outside of human beings on planet Earth.

The basic science is not physics or mathematics but biology -- the study of life. We must learn to think both logically and bio-logically.

To be an environmentalist is to care about the environment and care about life on planet Earth.

You can't live a healthy life on a sick planet.

There's actually a straightforward solution to invasive species: Eat 'em!

There are, for example, consistent details of passage to and from the craft, the rich descriptions of the alien beings and the intricate relationships to them, the many non-traumatic activities and observations that occur within the craft, and the elaborate communications concerning the earth's ecology and other psychospiritual matters which are, in my experience, a frequent, if not regular, dimension of the abduction phenomenon.

Now we can rediscover these natural treasures, restoring the ecology to create a greener environment

Steps to an Ecology of Mind.7 Bateson

The Grow Biointensive method is especially important for areas with scarce water.

Under Chairman Mao, every Chinese family was obliged to kill a sparrow a week to stop them eating all the rice. The project was ineffective because sparrows don't eat rice.

a single-continent world would be expected to contain only about a third as many mammalian species as currently exist.

Human activity has transformed between a third and a half of the land surface of the planet. • Most of the world's major rivers have been dammed or diverted. • Fertilizer plants produce more nitrogen than is fixed naturally by all terrestrial ecosystems. • Fisheries remove more than a third of the primary production of the oceans' coastal waters. • Humans use more than half of the world's readily accessible fresh water runoff.

As a general rule, the variety of life is most impoverished at the poles and richest at low latitudes.

Every hour and a half, Louisiana sheds another football field's worth of land.

Such is the economy of nature," Thomas Jefferson wrote, "that no instance can be produced, of her having permitted any one race of her animals to become extinct; of her having formed any link in her great work so weak as to be broken." When, as President, he dispatched Meriwether Lewis and William Clark to the Northwest, Jefferson hoped that they would come upon live mastodons roaming the region.

Researchers now believe it won't last out the Anthropocene. "It is likely that reefs will be the first major ecosystem in the modern era to become ecologically extinct

Atmospheric warming, ocean warming, ocean acidification, sea-level rise, deglaciation, desertification, eutrophication—these are just some of the by-products of our species's success. Such is the pace of what is blandly labeled "global change" that there are only a handful of comparable examples in earth's history, the most recent being the asteroid impact that ended the reign of the dinosaurs, sixty-six million years ago.

Right now we are in the midst of the Sixth Extinction, this time caused solely by humanity's transformation of the ecological landscape.

It was titled "Helping a Species Go Extinct.

On land, every animal larger than a cat seems to have died out.