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Quotes About Ecology

The real survivors are the Earth inhabitants that have lived millions of years without consuming their ecological capital, the base from which all abundance flows.
~ Janine Benyus
I'm very much an animal and nature person.
~ Jean Houston
We have lost sight of the dependence we have on nature in economics
~ Tony Juniper
We have to start listening to nature now.
~ Kevin Spacey
Man is embedded in nature.
~ Lewis Thomas
Wolves ... are a balance wheel of nature.
~ Lois Crisler
We can only truly be civilised people when we have regular and meaningful contact with the wild world
~ Simon Barnes
From Indian vultures to Chinese bees, Nature provides the 'natural services' that keep the economy going
~ Tony Juniper
It's not because nature is angry, it's rather that we are stupid. We're not doing the right thing with our planet.
~ Werner Herzog
This idea that things are designed to go back to nature or industry for ever which is our articulation of these two metabolisms are actually a discovery not an invention.
~ William McDonough
When we destroy the fertile lands, we destroy our own good life!
~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
A society which devastates its homelands' nature no more has the right to live in that territories!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
If people think nature is their friend then they sure don't need an enemy.
~ Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Nature is not tailored to man. It exists for itself.
~ John E. Smelcer, The Trap
When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe. -John Muir, naturalist, explorer, and writer (1838-1914)
~ John Muir
Protecting our environment is not a luxury we can choose to enjoy, but a simple matter of survival.
~ Auliq-Ice
Nature is increasingly the thematic focus of industrial heritage.
~ Carolyn Kitch
Ugly or beautiful, it is the little creatures that make the world go round. We should celebrate and appreciated them in all their wonderful diversity.
~ Dave Goulson
The main thing I worship is Nature !
~ Laure Lacornette
When we were monkeys, we were more human because we were at least not destroying the nature those days!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Environment' is a term that creates no pictures in the mind, which is why I have begun to use 'natural world' or 'living planet' instead.
~ George Monbiot
A proper respect for nature means that you can't pollute the air, poison the rivers and chop down the forests indiscriminately without suffering greatly.
~ Jay Parini
These days, most nature photographers are deeply committed to the environmental message.
~ Galen Rowell
Every act of energy conservation... is more than just common sense: I tell you it is an act of patriotism.
~ Jimmy Carter