Quotes About Ecology

I care a lot about the environment. I really do. I practice it in my personal life.

One of my rules is: If it's good for the planet, it's usually good for your wallet.

To be a friend of the Everglades is not necessarily to spend time wandering around out there.

Polar bears did very well in the warmer times. They didn't die out at all; they didn't die out in the last 10,000 years, nor during the previous interglacial, nor the one before that. So, they're just used as a deceitful heartthrob; you know, to pluck your heartstrings because the polar bears might die out.

Only by planting trees, we will be able to overcome global warming.

'Ecological sensitivity' is not the first thing that comes to mind when you think of Donald Trump. He doesn't even believe in global warming. But this is because he is a city boy.

I recycle as much as I can but I'm not an eco warrior.

Perfect molecules of plastic sheet the seas.

A man is related to all nature.

The current chapter discusses the ecology of form in community planning, highlighting the importance of designing around the "green infrastructure" of wetlands, watercourses, and wildlife habitat in creating

Thus the behavioral ecologist wants to measure four major costs for any animal or species: the costs of design, foraging, reproduction, and hazard avoidance.

If you've read 'Dark Ecology,' you'll know there's a whole thing about cats in it, more than once.

When I went to university, I decided that I would like to do something related to plant ecology, because I felt that plants were so beautiful. When I am studying plants, I feel like I am talking with some kind of supernatural life, like I am talking with someone who does not speak.

We should not have to choose between supporting jobs and supporting the environment.

Because we're not in harmony with the environment, we're destroying the environment that supports us.

I believe in the protection of the environment that supports us all.

We're adding a billion people every decade. We're just spin doctors. Whatever we do is supposedly great, and yet it's always at the expense of diversity and nature. We're like elephants. The ecology of the elephant is more similar to human than any other.

If gold has been prized because it is the most inert element, changeless and incorruptible, water is prized for the opposite reason -- its fluidity, mobility, changeability that make it a necessity and a metaphor for life itself. To value gold over water is to value economy over ecology, that which can be locked up over that which connects all things.

The planting of [orchards] represents a reduction of a complex ecology into the monocultural grid of modern agriculture, and the transformation of a complex symbiosis with the land into the simpler piecework or agricultural labour for surplus and export.

The free-range chickens and Priuses are great, but they alone aren't adequate tools for creating a truly different society and ecology.

I like to think (it has to be!) of a cybernetic ecology where we are free of our labors and joined back to nature, returned to our mammal brothers and sisters, and all watched over by machines of loving grace.

Should we then not expect lions to refrain from killing antelopes, 'for the good of the mammals'?

There exists no objective basis on which to elevate one species above another.

Fig trees and fig wasps share an intimate cooperative relationship. The fig that you eat is not really a fruit. There is a tiny hole at the end, and if you go into this hole (you'd have to be as small as a fig wasp to do so, and they are minute: thankfully too small to notice when you eat a fig), you find hundreds of tiny flowers lining the walls. The fig is a dark indoor hothouse for flowers, an indoor pollination chamber. And the only agents that can do the pollinating are fig wasps.