We don't even know what species are out there, for the most part, particularly when you get down to the microbes and… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
Freedom isn't the right to do whatever the f*ck you want. Freedom is when you don't have to pay money for anything.… — Isaiah Harden (Me Copy Share Image
You would have thought that our first priority would be to ask what the ecologists are finding out, because we have to… — David Suzuki Copy Share Image
“One of the penalties of an ecological education is that one lives alone in a world of wounds. An ecologist must either… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
I came to see that man finds meaning in his existence only through the active demonstration of his human self, a cosmos… — Pramoedya Ananta Toer Copy Share Image
I realized that Eastern thought had somewhat more compassion for all living things. Man was a form of life that in another… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
“Death is nature's way of making things continually interesting. Death is the possibility of change. Every individual gets its allotted lifespan, its… — Peter Steinhart Copy Share Image
The climate change debate is basically not about science; it is about ideology. It is not about global temperature; it is about… — Vaclav Klaus Copy Share Image
Look at what realists have done for us. They have led us to war and climate change, poverty on an unimaginable scale,… — Satish Kumar Copy Share Image
“To speak of sparing anything because it is beautiful is to waste one’s breath and incur ridicule in the bargain. The aesthetic… — John Van Dyke Copy Share Image
On a grander scale, when a society segregates itself, the consequences affect the economy, the emotions, and the ecology. That's one reason… — Joel Salatin Copy Share Image
Life in its infinite forms exists as one organic unity. We are part of it: the part should feel reverence for the… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Acoustic ecology is the study of information systems: the shared acoustic environment and how species send and receive messages in this shared… — Gordon Hempton Copy Share Image
The ecologist has a much more comprehensive and holistic view of the world. We're looking at the natural environment as well as… — Ken Yeang Copy Share Image
Mans most disagreeable habits and idiosyncrasies, his deceit, his cowardice, his lack of reverence, are engendered by his incomplete adjustment to a… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Man has been endowed with reason, with the power to create, so that he can add to what he's been given. But… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
The cleanup costs of polluting a river, injecting pesticides into the ground water, or putting noxious gases into the air have not… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
“It may be said, in broad-brush terms, that the primary purpose of life is the continuation of life. A deep program for… — Richard J. Borden Copy Share Image
When the wilderness movement emerged, it emerged separate from the issue of social inequality and the economic problems of survival. It was… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
“There is something deeply awe-inspiring about the sight of any living creatures in incomputable numbers; it stirs, perhaps, some atavistic chord whose… — Gavin Maxwell Copy Share Image
“Eco” comes from the Greek word oikos, meaning home. Ecology is the study of home, while economics is the management of home.… — David Suzuki Copy Share Image
Often what is nearest is hardest of all to see - try asking a fish to define water. Distance opens a door… — Vicki Goldberg Copy Share Image
In recent years it has become impossible to talk about man's relation to nature without referring to "ecology"...such leading scientists in this… — Rachel Carson Copy Share Image
I think human self-hatred may be the great untold story of the millennium. It's the common thread linking deep ecology and animal… — Annie Gottlieb Copy Share Image
I think our intelligence is a source of toxicity to nature and discomfort to ourselves unless our values are based on planetary… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
World trade depends on differences among countries, not similarities. Different countries are in different stages of development. It is appropriate for them… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
Like a shadow that does not permit us to jump over it, but moves with us to maintain its proper distance, pollution… — William Irwin Thompson Copy Share Image
The time has come to link ecology to economic and human development. When you have seen one ant, one bird, one tree,… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
The way I think of it, economics and ecology occupy two intellectual silos, isolated from each other. Even when they do take… — Charles C. Mann Copy Share Image
As we gain satisfaction from artificial substitutes for nature we forget that there is no known substitute for Nature, the real thing… — Michael J Cohen Copy Share Image
When the study of the household (ecology) and the management of the household (economics) can be merged, and when ethics can be… — Eugene Odum Copy Share Image
“It was only after oral tales became written orthodoxies that some people were labeled “pagans” and “heretics” and burned at the stake… — Peter K. Fallon Copy Share Image
