Quotes About Ecology

Nunca quise mariposas clavadas en un cartón, busco una ecología poética, atisbarme y a veces reconocerme desde mundos diferentes, cosas que sólo los poemas no habían olvidado y me guardaban como viejas fotografías fieles. No aceptar otra orden que las afinidades, otra cronología que la del corazón, otro horario que el de los encuentros a deshora, los verdaderos

We made war on the planet, and the planet fought back.

The land of Feyland didn't seem to have a discernible ecology – instead, rushing waves and sunny beaches gave way in the space of moments to snowy mountainsides and harsh, jutting cliffs.

Lots of animals are smaller than they used to be. Look at the size crocodiles used to be around the time of the dinosaurs. Or most of the huge mammals following that. Sometimes, being smaller means that you don't have to find as much food.", FADE by Kailin Gow

Nothing that you make in the world exists in isolation from the social and political and ecological dimensions of it.

Perényi had found in the garden everything from sexual politics and class struggle to culinary fashion and, particularly relevant to me, ecological insight. The garden in other words, was better approached as an arena than a refuge. --Intro by Michael Pollan

A nation that destroys its soils destroys itself. Forests are the lungs of our land, purifying the air and giving fresh strength to our people.

The nation that destroys its soil destroys itself.

There are lots of wonderful cognitive adaptations out there that we don't have or need. This is why ranking cognition on a single dimension is a pointless exercise. Cognitive evolution is marked by many peaks of specialization. The ecology of each species is key. The

There are lots of wonderful cognitive adaptations out there that we don't have or need. This is why ranking cognition on a single dimension is a pointless exercise. Cognitive evolution is marked by many peaks of specialization. The ecology of each species is key.

There is no single form of cognition, and there is no point in ranking cognitions from simple to complex. A species's cognition is generally as good as what it needs for its survival. (p. 200)

We seek ecological validity in our studies and follow the advice of Uexküll, Lorenz, and Imanishi, who encouraged human empathy as a way to understand other species. True empathy is not self-focused but other-oriented. Instead of making humanity the measure of all things, we need to evaluate other species by what they are.

Cognitive evolution is marked by many peaks of specialization. The ecology of each species is key. The

That nut on that island? The one who loves water?

We Americans make up only 5 percent of the world's population, but each year we consume almost half of the world's production of natural resources.

What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?

Wildness is the preservation of the World.

In wildness is the preservation of the world.

Nowadays almost all man's improvements, so called, as the building of houses and the cutting down of the forest and of all large trees, simply deform the landscape, and make it more and more tame and cheap.

About 15,000 years ago, humans colonised America, wiping out in the process about 75% of its large mammals. Numerous other species disappeared from Africa, from Eurasia, and from the myriad islands around their coasts. The archaeological record of country after country tells the same sad story.

The humped bladderwort has yellow, snapdragon-like flowers, and it's actually carnivorous, capable of trapping and eating not just insects but even tadpoles and tiny fish.

Well, I think breathing life into the Endangered Species Act, taking those wolves back into Yellowstone, restoring the salmon in the rivers of the Pacific Northwest.

There is no scientific reason to think that we, even with space travel, are going to survive as a species for ever, certainly not by biting off the hand that feeds us, which is exactly what we are doing.

When you start traveling and thinking from a global perspective, you realize how small the planet is and how predatory we are to its ecology.