Quotes About Ecology

bizarre example of what appears to be a Tit for Tat arrangement in nature was discovered by Eric Fischer in a hermaphrodite fish, the sea bass.

Species are grouped together into genera, genera into orders, and orders into classes. Lions and antelopes are both members of the class Mammalia, as are we. Should we then not expect lions to refrain from killing antelopes, 'for the good of the mammals'? Surely they should hunt birds or reptiles instead, in order to prevent the extinction of the class. But then, what of the need to perpetuate the whole phylum of vertebrates?

Let's not be too quick to blame the human race for everything. A great many species of animals became extinct before man ever appeared on earth.

The seriousness of ecological degradation lays bare the depth of man's moral crisis... Simplicity, moderation, and discipline as well as the spirit of sacrifice must become a part of everyday life.

What kind of man gives cigarettes to trees?

We are united with all life that is in nature. Man can no longer live his life for himself alone.

... man is eating the earth up like a candy bar.

With man gone, will there be hope for gorilla?

Nature includes all of the universe and man is not only a part of nature, he is in it up to his neck.

The mission of men there seems to be, like so many busy demons, to drive the forest all out of the country, from every solitary beaver swamp and mountain-side, as soon as possible.

Man has injured every animal he has touched.

We are addicted to money and our obsession with it is leading to the destruction of our planet.

I wish people would spend their money on hybrid cars.

Print some money and give it to us for the rain forests.

We're finally going to get the bill for the Industrial Age. If the projections are right, it's going to be a big one: the ecological collapse of the planet.

The conservationist¹s most important task, if we are to save the Earth, is to educate.

In nature's economy the currency is not money, it is life.

An understanding of the natural world and what's in it is a source of not only a great curiosity but great fulfillment...

We should preserve every scrap of biodiversity as priceless while we learn to use it and come to understand what it means to humanity.

If we throw mother nature out the window, she comes back in the door with a pitchfork.

Our world has become dehumanized. Man feels himself isolated in the cosmos, because he is no longer involved in nature.

The fate of the living planet is the most important issue facing mankind.

We shall continue to have a worsening ecologic crisis until we reject the Christian axiom that nature has no reason for existence save to serve man.

To keep every cog and wheel is the first precaution of intelligent tinkering.