Quotes About Ecology

We need to throw away less, recycle a lot more and turn much of the rest into energy.

My father was in the paper recycling business back before they called it recycling.

Why are ecologists and environmentalists so feared and hated? This is because in part what they have to say is new to the general public, and the new is always alarming.

When you look at elephant herds that are nonstressed, the males are never around. They mate, they go; they're loners.

La vie animale est entièrement issue du mouvement des mers et, à l'intérieur des corps, la vie continue à sortir de l'eau salée.

Infinite growth of material consumption in a finite world is an impossibility.

The sudden appearance of mushrooms after a summer rain is one of the more impressive spectacles of the plant world.

About 6,000 years ago, St. Paul Island, a tiny spot of land in the middle of the Bering Sea, must have been a strange place. Hundreds of miles away from the mainland, it was uninhabited except for a few species of small mammals, like arctic foxes, and one big one: woolly mammoths.

Hi, I'm Nadine Velazquez, and my green tip is: recycle.

First we must learn to love nature. Then comes conservation.

That includes not cutting down the rain forest, and stop polluting the ocean because once we kill the coral reefs and the rain forest, this earth is toast.

The future of food security will depend on a combination of the ecological prudence of the past and the technological advances of today.

Endangered forests are being slaughtered for toilet paper.

Most sharks can't tolerate freshwater but bull sharks have a quirk of their physiology that enables them to.

Flowers are plant penises

A print book is really a kind of tree zombie.

Fifty years ago, when the human population was about 3 billion, we were using about 70 percent of the Earth's annual capacity each year. That broke 100 percent by 1980 and stands at about 150 percent now, meaning that we need one and one-half Earths to regenerate what we use in a year. As the authors of this now annual study note, we have a total of just one Earth available.

So, for our own sake, let's know all the rules, not just those that pertain to our bodies. Only through wider understanding and application of these ecological rules will we control and have a chance to reverse the side effects we are causing across the globe.

Just in the nick of time they realized that it was their own habitat they were wrecking -- that they weren't merely visitors.

Time was when education moved toward soil, not away from it.

Humans are the most successful invasives of all time.

No sound in history has ever equalled the cry of the injured Earth.

Whatever the nature of organizing relations may be,' J. Needham wrote in 1932, 'they form the central problem of biology, and biology will be fruitful in the future only if this is recognized. The hierarchy of relations, from the molecular structure of carbon compounds to the equilibrium of species and ecological wholes, will perhaps be the leading idea of the future.

Above the podium stood a decorated board showing the agenda for the day. The first item of business was the world urban crisis, the second—the ecology crisis, the third—the air pollution crisis, the fourth—the energy crisis, the fifth—the food crisis. Then adjournment.