Quotes About Ecology

In nature there is no such thing as waste. In nature nothing is wasted; everything is recycled.

Give me spots on my apples, but leave me the birds and the bees, please.

Look at mother nature on the run in the 1970's.

Wildlife is something which man cannot construct. Once it is gone, it is gone forever. Man can rebuild a pyramid, but he can't rebuild ecology, or a giraffe.

Zoology has always been interesting to me. Nature is fascinating.

We shall be permitted to live on this planet only for as long as we treat all nature with compassion and intelligence.

Nature is to be found in her entirety nowhere more than in her smallest creatures.

The task that we face today is to understand the language of nature.

Man is everywhere a disturbing agent. Wherever he plants his foot, the harmonies of nature are turned to discords.

The role of the infinitely small in nature is infinitely great.

It is not enough to understand the natural world; the point is to defend and preserve it.

Permaculture creates a cultivated ecology, which is designed to produce more human and animal food than is generally found in nature.

Everything is connected to everything else. Everything must go somewhere. Nature knows best. There is no such thing as a free lunch.

To be modern is to destroy nature.

Nature favors those organisms which leave the environment in better shape for their progeny to survive.

We need to renegotiate our contract with nature. Ecology is a unifying force that can diminish intolerance and expand our empathy towards others - both human and animal.

A species is a reproductive community of populations reproductively isolated from others that occupies a specific niche in nature.

I like to define biology as the history of the earth and all its life - past, present, and future.

Since nature has the most sustainable ecosystem and since ultimately agriculture comes out of nature, our standard for a sustainable world should be nature's own ecosystem.

Nature's standard operating procedure, pairing a population explosion with a population crash.

Take good care of creation. St. Francis wanted that. People occasionally forgive, but nature never does. If we don't take care of the environment, there's no way of getting around it.

My perfect weekend... anything to do with nature.

I'm truly sorry man's dominion has broken Nature's social union.

I really think admiration for nature can save us. I mean true admiration, to the point of not letting it be harmed.