Quotes About Ecology

We're shaking loose viruses and dislodging them from their natural ecological limitations, places where they aren't very abundant and have competition, even within a single animal. We introduce them into a new, rich habitat called the human population, where they can flourish more abundantly and cause more trouble.

I think that witnessing ecological problems visible from space is one of the new and essential roles of astronauts.

Gaia—which in Greek means "the earth.

There is no place in nature for extinction.

What is the point of labeling each individual piece of fruit? Buy the fruit, EAT the ad! We've carved a chunk out of the ozone, burned up all the rainforests, soon we won't be able to BREATHE, and all because we had to label each individual piece of fruit.

Page: Don't keep the world on tenterhooks, Tom! Out with it! What's the best thing we can do to ensure a long, happy, healthy future for mankind? Grey: We can just about restore the balance of the ecology, the biosphere, and so on-in other words we can live within our means instead of on an unrepayable overdraft, as we've been doing for the past half century-if we exterminate the two hundred million most extravagant and wasteful of our species. Page: Follow that if you can, Mr. President.

If design is to be ecologically responsible, it must be independent of concern for the gross national product.

One of the penalties of an ecological education is that one lives alone in a world of wounds.

Whatever the life form, evolution selects for economy of resources.

I am quite an animal and nature lover.

I am a big lover of the environment. I actually come from Maine, which is pretty much all environment.

Our trucks run on natural gas.

In one such painting, Shell Heap, sabal

You will die but the carbon will not its career does not end with you. It will return to the soil, and there a plant may take it up again in time, sending it once more on a cycle of plant and animal life.

Este pu?in provocator, bineîn?eles, dar putem ast?zi s? consider?m omul ca celula canceroas? a organismului Terra. O celul? care prolifereaz? asigurându-?i dezvoltarea în detrimentul altora, distrugându-le pentru a-?i asigura propria sa dezvoltare.

Human beings are the planets way of committing suicide.

There is no scientific reason to think that we, even with space travel, are going to survive as a species for ever, certainly not by biting off the hand that feeds us, which is exactly what we are doing.

Of course, the plea for respect for nonhuman life goes far beyond the scientific delight of familiarity with our planet mates. The nonhuman forms of life with which we 6 000 million talking, upright apes share this finite planet are directly or indirectly connected to our well-being.

Evolution is no linear family tree, but change in the single multidimensional being that has grown to cover the entire surface of Earth.

We shall continue to have a worsening ecologic crisis until we reject the Christian axiom that nature has no reason for existence save to serve man.

One of the biggest differences between humans and trees is simply that humans burn trees.

When looking at nature, you must always consider the detail and the whole.

I like the outdoors and the natural world. Environmental issues.

what is the good of a nice house without a decent planet to put it on H.D.Thoreau