Quotes About Ecology

The activities of La Condamine, Humboldt, Wallace, Bates, and other such explorers touched on only the tiniest fraction of the vastness of a world so expansive as to be impervious to harm. But today, the Amazon River Basin, occupying more than 2.7 million square miles is at our fingertips and is considered one of the most ecologically threatened regions of the world.

If people think nature is their friend, then they sure don't need an enemy.

Wildness and wet . . . let them be left . . . ' " " 'Long live the weeds and the wilderness yet.

What would the world be, once bereft Of wet and wildness? Let them be left, O let them be left, wildness and wet, Long live the weeds and the wildness yet.

What would the world be, once bereft Of wet and of wildness? Let them be left, O let them be left, wildness and wet; Long live the weeds and the wilderness yet.

Man for Leopardi is first and foremost an animal, and his history is merely the last section of the much more ancient history of all living species, which in their turn are an integral part of the entire ecological system.

Save the earth. It's the only planet with chocolate.

...the smoke-smuggered stars...

Water and air, the two essential fluids on which all life depends, have become global garbage cans.

Some of these islanders dutifully recited for us their ancient law: "Take no more from the sea in one day than there are people in your village. If you observe this rule, the bonito will run well again tomorrow.

Any segment of land . . . can be interesting of itself, but its greater significance must always lie in the life it sustains.

Only an elaborate treatise in ecology could do justice to the subject of what went wrong

We're in very bad trouble if we don't understand the planet we're trying to save.

Meat is undoubtedly an environmentally expensive food.

My program intends to outsource tree plantation to uneducated rural men and women with a monthly salary of Rs5,000 for barely an hour's work.

Within the various acts of the ecodrama should be included scenes in which men's and women's roles come to center stage and scenes in which Nature 'herself' is an actress.

Land bridges were everywhere during the extinction, many species were spreading, and there were many diseases.

Instead of going to the ends of the Earth - and plumbing the depths of the oceans - to squeeze out every last drop of oil, we need, instead, to do everything we can to reduce the risks of offshore oil and gas production.

I love the rabbits and the squirrels and the birds.

When I'm working, on sets or stages, my contracts specify in the rider that no plastic bottles be used. When I'm playing with my band, we all use metal and non-plastic containers for drinking to be ecologically sensitive and show others that this is the way to go.

National Parks are the gold standard for conservation.

As crude a weapon as a cave man's club, the chemical barrage has been hurled against the fabric of life.

Tell me of what plant-birthday a man takes notice, and I shall tell you a good deal about his vocation, his hobbies, his hay fever, and the general level of his ecological education.

When a man must be afraid to drink freely from his country's river and streams that country is no longer fit to live in.