Nature is what she is - amoral and persistent.

There are no boundaries in the real Planet Earth. No United States, no Soviet Union, no China, no Taiwan...Rivers flow unimpeded across the swaths…

— Jacques Yves Cousteau

As a word, ecology has been so debased by recent political usage that many people employ it to identify anything good that happens far…

— Stephen Jay Gould

We cannot win this battle to save species and environments without forging an emotional bond between ourselves and nature as well - for we…

— Stephen Jay Gould

It is so hard for an evolutionary biologist to write about extinction caused by human stupidity. Let me then float an unconventional plea, the…

— Stephen Jay Gould

“Listen, O lord of the meeting rivers, things standing shall fall, but the moving ever shall stay.”

— Basava

A sense of being part of the great all-inclusive life prompts us to reflect on our own place and on how we ought to…

— Daisaku Ikeda

Capitalism’s grow-or-die imperative stands radically at odds with ecology’s imperative of interdependence and limit. The two imperatives can no longer coexist with each other;…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

We often speak of "deep ecology," but this is also Deep Eco-Psychology: how the environment can remind us of, and help mend, mental and…

— Michael Tobias

Starting from the very reasonable, but unfortunately revolutionary concept that social practices which threaten the continuation of life on Earth must be changed, we…

— Judi Bari

Acoustic ecology is the study of information systems: the shared acoustic environment and how species send and receive messages in this shared acoustic environment.…

— Gordon Hempton

The intersection of spiritual, dark music and radical ecology is quite natural.

— Kristoffer Rygg

“It was not enough that food aplenty was within Man’s grasp: he wanted more. It was not enough that prey surrendered themselves to Man…

— David Bowles

The thing that bothers me the most is the recklessness and greed of the local ranchers, who run too many cattle back here, choking…

— Merle Haggard

Ecological differentiation is the necessary condition for coexistence.

— Garrett Hardin

Biochemists and biologists who adhere blindly to the Darwinism theory search for results that will be in agreement with their theories and consequently orient…

— Pierre-Paul Grasse