Earth's biosphere gave birth to humans and our thoughts…

“we’ve learned that some of our favorite things like DDT and the propellants in aerosol cans were rapidly unraveling the structure and substance of…

— Barbara Kingsolver

If we want to know how the Earth's biosphere is going to respond to the things that humans are doing to the planet right…

— Kenneth Lacovara

“Nothing is more important to human beings than an ecologically functioning, life sustaining biosphere on the earth. It is the only habitable place we…

— Joseph Guth

Every day, the temperature of Sol's surface increases by five billionths of a degree, a change of no consequence for thousands of millennia to…

— Seth Shostak

Certainly for me, as an astrobiologist, science fiction has played an important role. One of the quandaries of our field is that we are…

— David Grinspoon

The planet Mars - crimson and bright, filling our telescopes with vague intimations of almost-familiar landforms - has long formed a celestial tabula rasa…

— David Grinspoon

I do comparative studies of climate evolution, and the interactions between planetary atmosphere and surfaces and their radiation environment, and try to understand the…

— David Grinspoon

The schedules are crammed with shows urging us to travel further, drive faster, build bigger, buy more, yet none of them are deemed to…

— George Monbiot

The living environment is the biosphere, the thin layer around the world of living organisms. We're part of that. Our existence is dependent on…

— E. O. Wilson

Using less of the Earth’s resources more efficiently and productively in a circular economy and making the transition from carbon-based fuels to renewable energies…

— Jeremy Rifkin

The ability of human beings to be creative depends fundamentally on the health and well-being of our biosphere, the few kilometres of air, water,…

— Freeman Patterson

Plants with leaves no more efficient than today's solar cells could out-compete real plants, crowding the biosphere with an inedible foliage. Tough omnivorous bacteria…

— K. Eric Drexler

“[Religious belief is] outmoded and ridiculous. [Belief in gods was a] worn out but once useful crutch in mankind's journey towards truth. We consider…

— P.W. Atkins

I firmly believe that contemporary spiritual use of entheogenic drugs is one of humankind's brightest hopes for overcoming the ecological crisis from which we…

— Jonathan Ott

It's always been a dream of mine, of exploring the living world, of classifying all the species and finding out what makes up the…

— E. O. Wilson