Other things, like capitalism, free enterprise, the economy, currency, the market, are not forces of nature, we invented them. They are not… — David Suzuki Copy Share Image
Development requires modification and transformation of the environment... the planet's capacity to support its people us being irreversibly reduced by the destruction… — Malcolm Fraser Copy Share Image
We are seeking another basic outlook: the world as an organization. This would profoundly change categories of our thinking and influence our… — Ludwig von Bertalanffy Copy Share Image
Saving the biosphere depends first and foremost on human beings reaching mutual understanding and unforced agreement as to common ends. And that… — Ken Wilber Copy Share Image
Certainly for me, as an astrobiologist, science fiction has played an important role. One of the quandaries of our field is that… — David Grinspoon Copy Share Image
...no matter how complex or affluent, human societies are nothing but subsystems of the biosphere, the Earth's thin veneer of life, which… — Vaclav Smil Copy Share Image
As the ongoing industrial crusade to turn all earthly life to commercial purpose relentlessly impoverishes the biosphere and human culture, our living… — Stephanie Mills Copy Share Image
I think for me, at the end of the day, just because of who I am, my priority is the biosphere. That… — Anohni Copy Share Image
Plants with leaves no more efficient than today's solar cells could out-compete real plants, crowding the biosphere with an inedible foliage. Tough… — K. Eric Drexler Copy Share Image
The underlying reason for convergence seems to be that all organisms are under constant scrutiny of natural selection and are also subject… — Simon Conway Morris Copy Share Image
We do not need to invent sustainable human communities. We can learn from societies that have lived sustainably for centuries. We can… — Fritjof Capra Copy Share Image
We need a change in consciousness to go with this technology platform. We need a new narrative: we need to shift from… — Jeremy Rifkin Copy Share Image
In the Gaia theory air, water, and soil are major components of one central organism, planet Earth. What we typically think of… — David Easton Copy Share Image
“Nothing is more important to human beings than an ecologically functioning, life sustaining biosphere on the earth. It is the only habitable… — Joseph Guth Copy Share Image
Yet what is more awesome: to believe that God created everything in six days, or to believe that the biosphere came into… — Stuart Kauffman Copy Share Image
Like most problems with technology, pollution is a problem of scale. The biosphere might have been able to tolerate our dirty old… — Ronald Wright Copy Share Image
Most of us have lost that sense of unity of biosphere and humanity which would bind and reassure us all with an… — Gregory Bateson Copy Share Image
The living environment is the biosphere, the thin layer around the world of living organisms. We're part of that. Our existence is… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
And somehow mother nature manages to create this incredible biosphere, to create this incredibly rich environment of animals and plants with this… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
Using less of the Earth’s resources more efficiently and productively in a circular economy and making the transition from carbon-based fuels to… — Jeremy Rifkin Copy Share Image
“ICTs are modifying the very nature of, and hence what we mean by, reality, by transforming it into an infosphere. Infosphere is… — Luciano Floridi Copy Share Image
Is it too much to ask, to live in a world where our human gifts go toward the benefit of all? Where… — Charles Eisenstein Copy Share Image
We have to be in abundance and recognize that we're just a small piece of this big thing that's moving along the… — Peter Buffett Copy Share Image
If we want to know how the Earth's biosphere is going to respond to the things that humans are doing to the… — Kenneth Lacovara Copy Share Image
In our time we have come to the stage where the real work of humanity begins. It is the time where we… — Jean Houston Copy Share Image
Biology occupies a position among the sciences at once marginal and central. Marginal because-the living world constituting but a tiny and very… — Jacques Monod Copy Share Image
If the human species, or indeed any part of the biosphere, is to continue to survive, it must eventually leave the Earth… — Frank J. Tipler Copy Share Image
“In a sense, the Earth is mounting an immune response against the human species. It is beginning to react to the human… — Richard Preston Copy Share Image
“we’ve learned that some of our favorite things like DDT and the propellants in aerosol cans were rapidly unraveling the structure and… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
The radiations that pour upon the earth cause the biosphere to take on properties unknown to lifeless planetary surfaces, and thus transform… — Vladimir Vernadsky Copy Share Image
These proven positive consequences of elevated CO2 are infinitely more important than the unsubstantiated predictions of apocalypse that are hypothesized to result… — Keith E. Idso Copy Share Image
Today the network of relationships linking the human race to itself and to the rest of the biosphere is so complex that… — Murray Gell-Mann Copy Share Image
Early ecologists soon realised that, since humans are organisms, ecology should include the study of the relationship between humans and the rest… — Richard Heinberg Copy Share Image
“NASA astronauts have only managed to live continuously on the International Space Station (ISS) for a year and Biosphere 2 on Earth… — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
Evolution in the biosphere is therefore a necessarily irreversible process defining a direction in time; a direction which is the same as… — Jacques Monod Copy Share Image
Above all, we should question the consumer ethic, which uses up non-renewable resources, creates inequality and injustice, generates pollution, destroys other species… — Peter Marshall Copy Share Image
The schedules are crammed with shows urging us to travel further, drive faster, build bigger, buy more, yet none of them are… — George Monbiot Copy Share Image
Looking outward to the blackness of space, sprinkled with the glory of a universe of lights, I saw majesty-but no welcome. Below… — Loren Acton Copy Share Image
“in the heat of unprecedented technological breakthroughs it is easy to think that we are invincible, like gods who would rule the… — Hal Zina Bennett Copy Share Image
Humans are remarkable: the first species in almost four billion years of life on earth that dominates the biosphere. This gives us… — David Christian Copy Share Image
