Quotes About Ecology

kill an animal or plant. Yet

I am not a lover of lawns. Rather would I see daisies in their thousands, ground ivy, hawkweed, and even the hated plantain with tall stems, and dandelions with splendid flowers and fairy down, than the too-well-tended lawn.

a culture is no better than its woods

If we don't overthrow capitalism, we don't have a chance of saving the world ecologically.

For one species to mourn the death of another is a new thing under the sun.

Atlantic puffins starve to death so that Danish chickens can feast on their fish.

Incidents like the eastern Illinois spraying raise a question that is not 9nly scientific but moral. The question is whether any civilization can wage relentless war on life without destroying itself, and without losing the right to be called civilized.

Such plants are weeds only to those who make a business of selling and applying chemicals.

Although man's record as a steward of the natural resources of the earth has been a discouraging one, there has long been a certain comfort in the belief that the sea, at least, was inviolate, beyond man's ability to change and to despoil. But this belief, unfortunately, has proved to be naïve.

Carson's writing initiated a transformation in the relationship between humans and the natural world and stirred an awakening of public environmental consciousness. It

The chemists' ingenuity in devising insecticides has long ago outrun biological knowledge of the way these poisons affect the living organism.

We are rightly appalled by the genetic effects of radiation; how then, can we be indifferent to the same effect in chemicals that we disseminate widely in our environment?

there isn't even a pole at the North Pole, and if global warming continues, there won't be any ice, either.

Nuestra cultura es una tercera piel (la segunda es el entorno ecológico). La naturaleza humana es cultural. La cultura no es un aditamiento artificial del hombre, como un cierto evolucionismo sutilmente presupone. El hombre es un animal cultural, la cultura es natural y las culturas son distintas, aunque no incomunicables.

They excrete in the same water where they eat, and they eat in the semen-clouded water where they fornicate. Fish are disgusting.

recorded everything from his observations regarding the ecology of the island to ruminations

I write a lot of environmental stories.

I have a major respect for nature. I'm an environmentalist.

I'm a food environmentalist. I'm about the food and the ambiance.

The sea where living creatures were at one time immersed is now enclosed within their bodies.

The re-establishment of an ecological balance depends on the ability of society to counteract the progressive materialization of values. The ecological balance cannot be re-established unless we recognize again that only persons have ends and only persons can work towards them.

we need to think about sex and gender in a more ecological kind of framework, understanding that changes in one environment inevitably impact changes in other environments. Gender here might be thought of more as a climate or ecosystem and less as an identity or discrete bodily location.

The industrial processes in use today were developed at a time when no one had to consider what the environmental impact was. Who cared? But making ecological concerns matter to a company's bottom line will help it do the research and development that will reinvent everything we buy.

Apart from the most obvious cases, like the Oriental Bittersweet vine, escaped from private gardens and smothering the mountains one acre at a time, the most painful proof of man's destruction is not what you can see right in front of you; it's what you will never see again.