Quotes About Ecology

I have heard endlessly that fish are so resilient that there is no way that you could exterminate a species. We are learning otherwise.

What we should be doing is saving habitats, not single species, no matter what their cuteness factor.

Animals need to understand other species, if only to prey on them or escape from them.

I have always been interested in the whole spectrum of the outdoors.

What I am interested in with birds, just as I am with spiders or monkeys, is what they do and why they do it.

The paradigm of the 'Aquarian Conspiracy' sees humankind embedded in nature. It promotes the autonomous individual in a decentralized society... The new perspective respects the ecology of everything: birth, death, learning, health, family, work, science, spirituality, the arts, the community, relationships, politics.

I think my legacy is important because my songs - perhaps more than those of any other songwriter I know - cover every movement from 1965 on, socially and artistically. If you want songs about ecology, I've got ecology songs; if you want songs about spirituality, I've got spiritual songs.

Approximately 80% of our air pollution stems from hydrocarbons released by vegetation, so let's not go overboard in setting and enforcing tough emission standards from man-made sources.

We are not truly civilized if we concern ourselves only with the relation of man to man. What is important is the relation of man to all life.

The world, we are told, was made especially for man - a presumption not supported by all the facts... Why should man value himself as more than a small part of the one great unit of creation?

The earth has a skin and that skin has diseases; one of its diseases is called man.

Man is a blind, witless, low brow, anthropocentric clod who inflicts lesions upon the earth.

Men will never rest till they've spoiled the earth and destroyed the animals.

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To date, around 99.9 percent of all species ever to have inhabited Earth have become extinct.

I can say that if anyone has worked to save the mountains, they are women.

In the 1950s and '60s, America's natural resources were in bad shape. Communities were so polluted that clouds of smog lingered over cities like Los Angeles. Rivers and lakes were filled with chemicals. In my hometown of Boston, the harbor was among the nation's most polluted waterways.

Our senses convey that all is not well with the natural world.

I have lots of heroes: anyone and everyone who does whatever they can to leave the natural world better than they found it.

For all my life I have had a deep connection to the natural world.

Si se difundiera la idea de que, al contaminar el mundo, no solo se perjudica a las ballenas sino también (perdonen el tecnicismo) a la polla, creo que asistiríamos a repentinas conversiones al ecologismo.

Se por acaso se espalhasse a ideia de que a poluição no mundo compromete não só as baleias mas também (desculpem o tecnicismo) os perus, acho que teríamos súbitas conversões ao ecologismo.

All the human and animal manure which the world wastes, if returned to the land, instead of being thrown into the sea, would suffice to nourish the world.