Forests precede civilizations and deserts follow them. — François-René de Chateaubriand Copy Share Image
After all, this is a world of rock and water and air. It is elemental. It is not ours. — Janet Kauffman Copy Share Image
If the bee disappeared off the face of the earth, man would only have four years left to live. — Maurice Maeterlinck Copy Share Image
Ecological differentiation is the necessary condition for coexistence. — Garrett Hardin Copy Share Image
The intersection of spiritual, dark music and radical ecology is quite natural. — Kristoffer Rygg Copy Share Image
The bulldozer and not the atomic bomb may turn out to be the most destructive invention of the 20th century. — Philip Shabecoff Copy Share Image
The basic pattern of life is a network. Whenever you see life, you see networks. The whole planet, what we can term… — Fritjof Capra Copy Share Image
When the last tree is cut, the last fish is caught, and the last river is polluted; when to breathe the air… — Alanis Obomsawin Copy Share Image
If an economy is to sustain progress, it must satisfy the basic principles of ecology. If it does not, it will decline… — Lester R. Brown Copy Share Image
The most alarming of all man's assaults upon the environment is the contamination of air, earth, rivers, and sea with dangerous and… — Rachel Carson Copy Share Image
I give you the chameleon, whose ability to blend itself into the background tells you all you need to know about the… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
He who eats the fruit should at least plant the seed; ay, if possible, a better seed than that whose fruit he… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The two most important things to remember in business are: to be aware of the consequential impact on ecology, and a caring… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
We cannot win this battle to save species and environments without forging an emotional bond between ourselves and nature as well -… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
“From the Hive Manual. The relationship between ecology and evolution is extremely close, deeply implicated in organic changes among a given animal… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
The careful scholarship of the dedicated amateur mycophile R. Gordon Wasson reads like an exciting scientific detective story. Moreover, his willingness to… — Weston La Barre Copy Share Image
The ecology of the valley was complex beyond our understanding, and it began to die as we went on manipulating it in… — William Kittredge Copy Share Image
For the Amahuaca, the Koyukon, the Apache, and the diverse Aboriginal peoples of Australia - as for numerous other indigenous peoples -… — David Abram Copy Share Image
“I see no real evolution in media ecology beyond the “shape shifting” nature that seems to have been deliberately embedded in its… — Peter K. Fallon Copy Share Image
A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe; a part limited in time and space. He experiences… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
All around us, aspects of the modern world - diet, exercise, medicine, art, work, family, philosophy, economics, ecology, psychology - have begun… — Paul Shepard Copy Share Image
Acknowledging the physical realities of our planet does not mean a dismal future of endless sacrifice. In fact, acknowledging these realities is… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
“Many conscientious environmentalists are repelled by the word "abundance," automatically associating it with irresponsible consumerism and plundering of Earth's resources. In the… — Jeane Manning Copy Share Image
Through luminous and erudite readings of the texts, Hasana Sharp shows us how profound and radical is Spinoza's conception of nature and… — Michael Hardt Copy Share Image
“Paleoecology teaches that refugia are not only physical places, but they also represent bottlenecks along a timeline. Large populations of trees, insects,… — Ryan Emanuel Copy Share Image
“The scene is most beautiful without people in it. People just screw things up. Forget the whole thing, the world, all the… — Jael McHenry (The Kitchen Daughter Copy Share Image
“I thought of my river, the Afon-Lwydd, that my father had fished in youth, with rod and line for the leaping salmon… — Alexander Cordell Copy Share Image
Shallow ecology is anthropocentric, or human-centred. It views humans as above or outside nature, as the source of all value, and ascribes… — Fritjof Capra Copy Share Image
.. the word ecology, coined by the German biologist and philosopher Ernst Haeckel (initially as oecology) in 1866. derives from the Greek… — Warwick Fox Copy Share Image
It is so hard for an evolutionary biologist to write about extinction caused by human stupidity. Let me then float an unconventional… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
