Quotes About Ecology

Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't driving around on a bus and having a campfire kind of adding to the environment problem?

The future will be green, or not at all

One planet, one experiment.

The future will either be green or not at all.

If the world is to save any part of its resources for the future, it must reduce not only consumption but the number of consumers.

The future will belong to the nature-smart.

Plants seem like an excellent model for the kind of future that we should be building.

My goal is to leave this planet with the biggest carbon footprint I can possibly leave.

Neanderthal age of biology and the convenience of man.

The control of nature is a phrase conceived in arrogance, born of the Neanderthal age of biology and the convenience of man.

Because normal human activity is worse for nature than the greatest nuclear accident in history.

Life preys upon life. This is biology's most fundamental fact.

E. O. Wilson, one of the world's most distinguished ecologists, certainly its most eloquent: 'At the heart of the environmentalist world view is the conviction that human physical and spiritual health depends on the planet Earth … Natural ecosystems – forests, coral reefs, marine blue waters – maintain the world as we would wish it to be maintained. Our body and our mind evolved to live in this particular planetary environment and no other.

And the new people just did not appreciate the importance of recycling,

No species can withstand all the infinite factors to which it can be exposed. Homo sapiens is closer to mass death than other species of the same geographical distribution, largely because we hunt it ourselves.

For 7 pounds of food waste per week, I would start with 2 to 3 pounds (0.9 kg to 1.4 kg) of worms in a 6-cubic-foot worm bin.

He that plants trees loves others besides himself.

To Michael Soule's three C's-cores, carnivores, and corridors-Foreman added "three W's: wilderness, wildways, and my favorite word in the English language, wildeor, which is Middle English and means `self-willed animal.' The ancient people who saw animals as self-willed and the land as self-willed had respect for the earth.

Nature is one body. We can say that while human beings and insects are part of nature, they also represent nature as a whole. And if that is so, when we harm plants, microorganisms, and insects through large-scale conventional agriculture, we are harming humanity as well.

Human society sustains itself by transforming nature into garbage.

The way we pay for the present by liquidating the future truly fits the definition of a Ponzi scheme. Any other forms of Ponzi schemes are outlawed, only the ecological one we seem to ignore or even encourage.

Ecology, like genetics, is not about equilibrium states. It is about change, change and change. Nothing stays the same forever.

Les déchets animaux polluent les eaux plus que toutes les autres sources industrielles combinées

Es urgente pues detener este «ecocidio» de los océanos, uno de los ecosistemas más preciados y más útiles para el equilibrio del planeta, que no obstante ha sido rebajado al rango de «recurso económico» o de basurero.