Quotes About Ecology

and the horticulturalists really believed that gardening would save the world that agriculture was destroying.

Plastic bags are bad and for the most part unnecessary.

During these last ten thousand years, we have made massive, unprecedented changes to the environment, creating problems for ourselves that we may not be able to solve.

We Americans are churning through fresh water at an alarming and unsustainable rate.

The environment will continue to deteriorate until pollution practices are abandoned.

I think human self-hatred may be the great untold story of the millennium. It's the common thread linking deep ecology and animal rights, the love and money we lavish on pets, the uneasy longing for extraterrestrials to be meddling with us.

We have altered the physical, chemical and biological properties of the planet on a geological scale. We have left no part of the globe untouched.

For many years, I have sought and studied Agarikon, an unusual mushroom native to the old growth conifer forests of North America and Europe.

Each creature both great and small has evolved after millions of years of evolution serving an integrated and important part in the ecological balance of our Earth. Upset the balance and the consequences are disastrous.

Well, I think I was always sort of reflecting where I was and my sense of surroundings and ecology, urban or country, or foreign, living in Europe, very affected by all of that.

[My vision is] To make the world work for 100% of humanity in the shortest possible time through spontaneous cooperation without ecological offense or the disadvantage of anyone.

Rapid population growth and technological innovation, combined with our lack of understanding about how the natural systems of which we are a part work, have created a mess.

Men and nature must work hand in hand. The throwing out of balance of the resources of nature throws out of balance also the lives of men.

When you don't take into account the way ecological systems work, then you do damage.

Our land-healing ministry really is about cultivating relationships: between the people, the loving stewards, and the ecology of a place, what I call the environmental umbilical that we're nurturing here.

What is true environmentalism? I think it's environmental stewardship - not prohibition.

Good stewardship of the environment and our natural resources is necessary.

one cubic foot of tidepool can support more than four thousand living things.

Eighty-four islands in the San Juan chain are wildlife refuges; of those, humans are allowed to visit only three.

What saved the land, this study found, was what Hugh Bennett had started: getting farmers to enter contracts with a soil conservation district and manage the land as a single ecological unit.

Of all the foes which attack the woodlands of North America, no other is so terrible as fire.

I care to live only to entice people to look at nature's loveliness," Muir said

Naturalist Roger Tory Peterson has calculated that the Olympic Rain Forest is weighted down with more living matter than any other place on earth.

Rhonda Perciavalle Patrick Tótem: Coywolf