Quotes About Ecology

Bottles and food wrappings bobbing in the tide

Durante centenares de miles de años, el hombre luchó para abrirse un lugar en la naturaleza. Por primera vez en la historia de nuestra especie, la situación se ha invertido y hoy es indispensable hacerle un lugar a la naturaleza en el mundo del hombre.

I am the Angel of Death to any kind of plant.

Every species has come into existence coincident both in space and time with a pre-existing closely allied species.

Every time we consume meat, eggs or dairy foods, we contribute to ecological devastation and the wasteful misuse of resources on a global scale.

A billion could live off the earth; 6 billion living as we do is far too many, and you run out of planet in no time.

Mr. Archer being EARTH FRIENDLY was APPARATUS HOSTILE.

Marine ecology is complex and tightly interwoven.

Qué puede hacer una persona para ahorrar más agua? La respuesta me parece evidente: reducir el consumo de carne.

No closed ecology can be one-hundred-per-cent efficient; there is always waste, loss—some degradation of the environment and build-up of pollutants. It may take billions of years to poison and wear out a planet, but it will happen in the end. The oceans will dry up; the atmosphere will leak away.

Before man, the forest; after him, the desert.

I recognize the need for technology that enriches life while preserving our natural environment. My goal is to stimulate productivity, but use technology to redeem, not to destroy our environment.

I forced myself to think what is the new concept and it became clear to me that it was risk, not only in technology and ecology, but in life and employment, too.

Like most other things not apparently useful to man, it has few friends, and the blind question "Why was it made?' goes on and on, with never a guess that first of all it might have been made for itself.

When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.

Nature is not tailored to man. It exists for itself.

Copernicus took us out of the centre of the solar system; we now need to take ourselves out of the centre of the biosphere."52

In addition to being delightful words to say, umwelt and umgebung offer a framework for exploring and describing the experience of other creatures.

a sort of botanical glory-hole

Environmental pollution is an incurable disease. It can only be prevented.

Would the last animal, eating garbage and living on the last scrap of land, his mate dead, would he still forgive you?

I am delighted to see that the issue of coral reefs is receiving the attention it deserves.

It's important to recognise that humans are not the measure of all things... The Earth is the measure of all things.

It's not that hard to imagine the natural world recovering it's health in our absence: it's more difficult, and more necessary, to imagine it recovering its health in our presence.