Quotes About Ecology

I think the tree is an element of regeneration which in itself is a concept of time.

I want my body to help fertilize the growth of a cactus or cliff rose or sagebrush or tree.

Geography is just physics slowed down, with a couple of trees stuck in it.

The best friend of earth of man is the tree.

"If my decomposing carcass helps nourish the roots of a juniper tree or the wings of a vulture--that is immortality enough for me. And as much as anyone deserves." E.Abbey

Save a tree, eat a beaver.

Save the Trees? Trees are the main cause of Forest Fires!

If you're not a tree hugger, then you're a what, a tree hater?

I've always liked trees. And then, growing up, I took an interest in ecology, hedges being destroyed, the landscape being turned into prairies.

You should issue demerits for tree cutting or the destruction of humus.

Eighty percent of air pollution comes from plants and trees.

I speak for the trees!

Native trees are so important to our ecosystem.

Why are there so many trees in the jungle?

Cars don't cause pollution, trees do.

If we don't preserve forest habitat for spotted owls, then soon we won't have trees to refresh the air we breathe. And we're realizing that this applies to social ecology, as well.

Wilson's way of keeping in mind the dual aspects of the Furby's nature seems to me a philosophical version of multitasking, so central to our twentieth-century attentional ecology. His attitude is pragmatic. If something that seems to have a self is before him, he deals with the aspect of self he finds most relevant to the context.

two issues of the new ecology that particularly pertain to the new feminism: reproduction and its control, including the seriousness of the population explosion and new methods of fertility control, and cybernation, the future takeover by machines of increasingly complex functions, altering man's age-old relation to work and wages.

You can reduce environmentalism to six words: don't burn coal, don't eat meat. The rest is detail.

If anyone wants to save the planet, all they have to do is just stop eating meat. That's the single most important thing you could do. It's staggering when you think about it. Vegetarianism takes care of so many things in one shot: ecology, famine, cruelty.

HELPED are those who love the entire cosmos rather than their own tiny country, city, or farm, for to them will be shown the unbroken web of life and the meaning of infinity.

I love to walk in the forest and take my bike. I love to watch the little birdies. I'm a green person.

In an ecology of love, people can relate in trust and face the future without fear. They do not need to play it safe. They can take uncertainty in their stride.

Seriously, like Steve Jobs playing the orchestra,*8 my orchestra is this land. When you're here, surrounded by it, connecting to it on a visceral level, you realize that that connection is the only way to save our planet. That's been the problem all along, destroying the natural world because we've created so much distance from it.