Quotes About Ecology

No one species shall make the life of the world its own.' … That's one expression of the law. Here's another: 'The world was not made for any one species.

I have a certain pool of subject matter that I like to write about, things that interest me: politics, religion, ecology, and relationships between men and women. And that's usually what I focus on.

I love the environment, but I'm cheap on the environment.

Of course, a positive growth rate might be taken as evidence that a population is below its optimum.

Our goal is a delightfully diverse, safe, healthy, and just world, with clean air, water, soil and power – economically, equitably, ecologically and elegantly enjoyed.

Ecological devastation is the excrement, so to speak, of man's power worship.

Modern witchcraft, she'd learned, was simply a religion that reveres nature.

The way we treat the land is the way we treat each other, and the ways of humans to each other are as ecologically important as a water table.

What do you call dumping 22,000 pounds of organic chemical waste into the Mississippi River every day? You call it "organic loading.

This island of Earth of ours is finite in resources, including wilderness- particularly wilderness. The dwindling worldwide reservoir of wild lands must be the concern of everyone, but especially of those of us who have been privileged to experience wildness, and thus learn its value to the individual human soul and to the spirit of mankind.

Thoreau asked long ago, "What's the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?" We

Linepithema humile is a species of ant native to Northern Argentina that has, with our help, become a new kind of global superorganism.

We need visions of a future in which we have applied our infinite creativity to the task of living on a finite world, where we have embraced our role, become comfortable and proficient as planet-shapers, and learned to use our technological skills to enhance the survival prospects not just of humanity but of all life on Earth. My name for this vision is Terra Sapiens, or "Wise Earth." A

Ecology should be object lessons that the world sees, that explains in a visceral, physical way, the attributes of God.

By polluting clear water with slime you will never find good drinking water.

One of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between Man and Nature shall not be broken.

Mother earth cried so much that she has pool of tears more than the land of happiness.

Finally, the ecological health of the Mississippi River and its economic importance to the many people that make their living or seek their recreation is based on a healthy river system.

Health is the capacity of the land for self-renewal.

Conservation is key to preserving many of the world's natural beauty spots, so do your best to help by keeping to designated footpaths and being a discerning souvenir collector.

The oldest task in human history: to live on a piece of land without spoiling it.

We must come to understand our past, our history, in terms of the soil and water and forests and grasses that have made it what it is.

In all works on Natural History, we constantly find details of the marvellous adaptation of animals to their food, their habits, and the localities in which they are found.

Only in the last moment in history has the delusion arisen that people can flourish apart from the rest of the living world.