Quotes About Ecology

Woodpeckers are natural engineers whose abandoned nest and roost cavities facilitate a great diversity of life, including birds, mammals, invertebrates, and many fungi,moss, and lichens. Without woodpeckers, birds such as chickadees and tits, swallows ans martins, bluebirds, some flycatchers, nuthatches, wood ducks, hooded mergansers, and small owls (screech, saw-whet, and pygmy) would be homeless.

I believe our biggest issue is the same biggest issue that the whole world is facing, and that's habitat destruction.

In addition to contributing to erosion, pollution, food poisoning, and the dead zone, corn requires huge amounts of fossil fuel - it takes a half gallon of fossil fuel to produce a bushel of corn.

We're terrible animals. I think that the Earth's immune system is trying to get rid of us, as well it should.

The universe is a communion of subjects, not a collection of objects.

Mankind has probably done more damage to the Earth in the 20th century than in all of previous human history.

Conservation is a state of harmony between men and land.

There is a gyre of discarded floating plastic the size of the continental USA in the ocean. In it, plastic trash outweighs plankton 40 to 1.

Eating is an environmental act.

We have been too kind to those who are killing the planet. We have been inexcusably, unforgivably, insanely kind.

The ecological crisis is a moral issue.

The conservation of natural resources is the fundamental problem. Unless we solve that problem it will avail us little to solve all others.

Our nation's continued prosperity hinges on our ability to solve environmental problems and sustain the natural resources on which we all depend.

We must develop a better sense of responsibilty towards our total environment

Strip the hills, drain the boglands, and you create flood conditions inevitably. Yet that is what we have been doing for years.

I've been a longtime supporter of all sorts of environmental groups.

You don't have to live in the country and grow your own food to be green.

You completely rediscovered & relived everything to do with wildlife.

In parts of Montana, salt concentrations in soil water, have reached those double those of seawater.

Birds are extremely valued as indicators of overall environmental health. If there's a problem in a wild bird population, it's indicative that something went wrong.

One of the things that Ive always thought I would like to do is to develop an environmental index. Then people can measure their own environmental performance on an index as they do in other ways.

I think we are very environmental people. We need to be supported environmentally. Books very much have that imprint on the mind.

Keep the environment clean and the waters clear as crystal.

Catch-and-release fishing is an ecological necessity, not my preference. The practice smacks of bad faith, an inauthentic act.