No one person has to do it all but if each one of us follow our heart and our own inclinations we… — John Denver Copy Share Image
Our modern industrial economy takes a mountain covered with trees, lakes, running streams and transforms it into a mountain of junk, garbage,… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
The ecological crisis is doing what no other crisis in history has ever done - challenging us to a realization of a… — Jean Houston Copy Share Image
By ecology we understand the total science of the connections of the organism to the surrounding external world. — Ernst Haeckel Copy Share Image
The ecological principle of unity in diversity grades into a richly mediated social principle; hence my use of the term social ecology. — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
The struggle to save the global environment is in one way much more difficult than the struggle to vanquish Hitler, for this… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
It's a morbid observation, but if every one on earth just stopped breathing for an hour, the greenhouse effect would no longer… — Jerry Adler Copy Share Image
I think still it is very fine not to want children. There are far too many people in the world. It is… — Helen Mirren Copy Share Image
When one of a culture's guiding credos is that "all men are created equal," any person who, say, becomes an expert on,… — Sarah Vowell Copy Share Image
“Viewing ecology through the lens of individual life histories or the life cycles of species makes it easy to grasp the Hindu… — Richard J. Borden Copy Share Image
The thing that bothers me the most is the recklessness and greed of the local ranchers, who run too many cattle back… — Merle Haggard Copy Share Image
You go into a community and they will vote 80 percent to 20 percent in favor of a tougher Clean Air Act,… — William Ruckelshaus Copy Share Image
“The race is now on between the technoscientific and scientific forces that are destroying the living environment and those that can be… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A large-scale wind, water and solar energy system can reliably supply the world’s needs, significantly benefiting climate, air quality, water quality, ecology… — Mark Z. Jacobson Copy Share Image
We're never going to have respectful and reverential relationships with the planet- and sensible policies about what we put in the air,… — Elise M. Boulding Copy Share Image
All nations are degrading and consuming their environment to a point beyond capacity. In the past 15 years in the U.S. we… — Gaylord Nelson Copy Share Image
My Prime Minister regards the economy as our highest priority and forgets that economics and ecology are derived from the same Greek… — David Suzuki Copy Share Image
“Now observe that in all the propaganda of the ecologists—amidst all their appeals to nature and pleas for “harmony with nature”—there is… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
I think that we're at an alarming moment in American political development and maybe in world political development, because the United States… — Frances Fox Piven Copy Share Image
Wilderness is a place where the wild potential is fully expressed, a diversity of living and nonliving beings flourishing according to their… — Gary Snyder Copy Share Image
I learned that [Trotskyism] were no different from the Stalinists, and they expelled me, which is the typical Marxist-Leninist way of dealing… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
Our oil-based society depends on non-renewable resources. It requires relentless probing into vast reaches of pristine land, sacrificing vital bioregions, and irreplaceable… — Leonardo DiCaprio Copy Share Image
“Ecology is beginning to slowly shift focus with tentative explorations of what the world would look like if process, rather than matter… — Jeffrey A. Lockwood Copy Share Image
A sense of being part of the great all-inclusive life prompts us to reflect on our own place and on how we… — Daisaku Ikeda Copy Share Image
“This is where the will to grapple with our hard and pressing environmental problems begins: in relationship to something other that you… — Susan Freinkel Copy Share Image
Ecology, like genetics, is not about equilibrium states. It is about change, change and change. Nothing stays the same forever. — Matt Ridley Copy Share Image
“The world as first seen by the child becomes his lifelong standard of excellence, mindless of the fact he is admiring the… — William Stolzenburg Copy Share Image
“And daddy won't you take me back to Muhlenberg County Down by the Green River where Paradise lay" "Well, I'm sorry, my… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Although I am fully convinced of the truth of Evolution, I by no means expect to convince experienced naturalists. But I look… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Everything is connected to everything else. Everything must go somewhere. Nature knows best. There is no such thing as a free lunch. — Barry Commoner Copy Share Image
“Unsportsmanlike predator-killing is always rationalized as defence of property—usually someone else’s property. This excuse is getting too thin to pass muster among… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
If a product is more expensive than another one and more sustainable in ecology, consumers will not buy it. We're in a… — Jean-Claude Van Damme Copy Share Image
Permaculture creates a cultivated ecology, which is designed to produce more human and animal food than is generally found in nature. — Bill Mollison Copy Share Image
“We study the past ecological history, with the conscience of the present ecological conditions. The key to predict future aquatic ecosystem changes.” — Lailah Gifty Akita Copy Share Image
“That's it on the maps; nature doesn't acknowledge frontiers. Neither can ecology... Where to begin to understand what we've only got a… — Nadine Gordimer Copy Share Image
We need to renegotiate our contract with nature. Ecology is a unifying force that can diminish intolerance and expand our empathy towards… — Gregory Colbert Copy Share Image
I take a biocentric point of view. I look at things from the point of view of the Earth and the laws… — Paul Watson Copy Share Image
Everything is connected to everything else. Everything must go somewhere. Nature knows best. There is no such thing as a free lunch.… — Barry Commoner Copy Share Image
The use of plant oil as fuel may seem insignificant today. But such products can in time become just as important as… — Rudolf Diesel Copy Share Image
We don't know nearly enough about the complexities of Nature. If we think we can eliminate natural ecosystems and substitute prosthetic devices,… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image