Quotes About Ecology

Field biologists studying large and charismatic animals wanted to know if their own species had genetic problems. I listened carefully to stories of koalas in Australia, giant pandas in China, black-footed ferrets in the Midwest, elephants, rhinos, and leopards in Africa, and orangutans in Asia--all threatened or endangered species attended by packs of worried field biologists. If cheetahs paid a price for their brush with extinction, did these species suffer the same?

We differ from other large mammals, but not much from rodents, in the great variety of habitats we now occupy and in the population densities we have achieved. In

Now more than ever we are all becoming more aware about the need to conserve our precious living heritage.

Perhaps the problem is not that we didn't work well enough together, but that we worked to well. In fact, maybe if we hadn't worked so well together, we wouldn't be destroying the earth so rapidly.

Every golf course should have its carbon rating on the scorecard, alongside its Course Rating, Slope, par and yardage.

India's rivers are undergoing a drastic change. Our perennial rivers are becoming seasonal. Many of the smaller rivers have already vanished.

If there remain places on the planet that are un-known, unspoilt corners, a laboratory for evolution still exists - a snapshot of what the rainforests, polar deserts and high mountains were once like, before man.

To grow the plants and animals that made up my meal, no pesticides found their way into any farmworker's bloodstream, no nitrogen runoff or growth hormones seeped into the watershed, no soils were poisoned, no antibiotics were squandered, no subsidy checks were written. If the high price of my all-organic meal is weighed against the comparatively low price it exacted from the larger world, as it should be, it begins to look, at least in karmic terms, like a real bargain.

The biggest organism on earth is not a whale or a tree but a mushroom—a honey fungus in Oregon that is 2.4 miles wide.) Stamets contends that these mycelial networks are in some sense

even the weather itself is in some sense an artifact now, its temperatures and storms the reflection of our actions.

Through nature, through the evolutionary continuum, and ecological relatedness and interdependence of all things, we are as much a part of the wolf as the wolf is a part of us. And as we destroy or demean nature, wolves, or any creature, great or small, we do no less to ourselves.

I love eating meat, but I love our planet even more. So I will join this campaign and stop eating meat at least one day a week.

I love all of the Earth.

War, as the foremost ecological disaster of any age, merely reflects the larger state of human affairs in which the total organism called "humanity" finds its existence. —PARDOT KYNES, Reflections on the Disaster at Salusa Secundus

The wild desolation of the place whetted my interest in ecology. It's so much more interesting to study a Ã¢â'¬Â¦ damaged world. I find it difficult to learn anything in a place that's too civilized.

The highest function of ecology is the understanding of consequences.

Beneath a world—in its rocks, its dirt and sedimentary overlays—there you find the planet's memory, the complete analog of its existence, its ecological memory. —PARDOT KYNES, An Arrakis Primer

Human beings are not nature's favorites. We are merely one of a multitude of species upon which nature indiscriminately exerts its force.

Sometimes it's hard to feel much hope for the planet.

Economists don't seem to have noticed that the economy sits entirely within the ecology.

The more humans fill the world, the more we empty it.

Ours is the species that best understands the world, yet has the worst relationship with it.

If we ruin the earth, there is no place else to go

Science arouses a soaring sense of wonder. But so does pseudoscience. Sparse and poor popularizations of science abandon ecological niches that pseudoscience promptly fills. If it were widely understood that claims to knowledge require adequate evidence before they can be accepted, there would be no room for pseudoscience. But a kind of Gresham's Law prevails in popular culture by which bad science drives out good.