Quotes About Ecology

Marrying a divorced man is ecologically responsible; in a world where there are more women than men, it pays to recycle.

Man is always and everywhere a blight on the landscape.

It's a matter of life and death for this country. The Kenyan forests are facing extinction and it is a man-made problem.

We see how capitalism is destroying Mother Earth. I remain convinced that the Earth can exist without man but man cannot live without the Earth.

Man is more than half of nature's treasure.

Theodore Roosevelt

Oh leave this barren spot to me!Spare, woodman, spare the beechen tree!

Everyone is trying to jump on the biomimic bandwagon. But a cork floor is not biomimicry. Neither is using bacteria to clean water.

I hope to persuade you that energy is central to evolution, that we can only understand the properties of life if we bring energy into the equation.

the igneo-aerial food." In other words, despite

At the store, they have one-hundred-percent-recycled toilet paper, Marla says. The worst job in the whole world must be recycling toilet paper.

I wanted to destroy everything beautiful I'd never have. Burn the Amazon rain forests. Pump chlorofluorocarbons straight up to gobble the ozone. Open the dump valves on supertankers and uncap offshore oil wells. I wanted to kill all the fish I couldn't afford to eat, and smother the French beaches I'd never see. I wanted the whole world to hit bottom.

Humankind was a disease. The earth was the body.

Earth is home to more than twelve thousand species of ants. If you weighed all the ants and all the humans, the ants would weigh more.

competitive exclusion (n) 1. a situation in which one species competes another into extinction.

And in time it will be as though men had never come to this perfect corner of the world—never called it paradise on earth, never despoiled it with their dream factories; and in the golden hush of the afternoon all that will be heard will be the flittering of dragonflies, and the murmur of hummingbirds as they pass from bower to bower, looking for a place to sup sweetness.

Non possiamo illuderci che la natura abbia una capacità illimitata di riparare ai guasti che l'uomo le infligge.

Las madres solemos preguntar angustiadas cuándo es el momento propicio para el destete. Cuando las madres preguntamos este tipo de cosas, ya nos hemos perdido de nosotras mismas. Hemos perdido nuestra ecología personal y la confianza en nuestro saber intuitivo. Y si las madres nos perdemos, el mundo entero está perdido.

diminutive island lacking in either fresh water or wood but seething with wildlife.

By "sea wolves" Pigafetta meant the sub-Antarctic sea lion or the sea elephant

When human beings lose their connection to nature, to heaven and earth, then they do not know how to nurture their environment or how to rule their world - which is saying the same thing. Human beings destroy their ecology at the same time that they destroy each other. From that perspective, healing our society goes hand in hand with healing our personal, elemental connection with the phenomenal world.

Contemporaneous with the financial crisis we have an ecological crisis and a health crisis. They are intimately interlinked. We cannot convert much more of the earth into money, or much more of our health into money, before the basis of life itself is threatened.

We never were separate from nature and never will be, but the dominant culture on earth has long imagined itself to be apart from nature and destined one day to transcend it. We have lived in a mythology of separation.

We must turn away from an attitude of nature-as-engineering-object to one of humble partnership.