Why is it so easy to save the banks - but so hard to save the biosphere? — George Monbiot Copy Share Image
The human juggernaut is permanently eroding Earth's ancient biosphere. — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
Protecting the biosphere should be our highest priority or else we sicken and die. — David Suzuki Copy Share Image
Can we reach biosphere consciousness and global empathy in time to avert planetary collapse? — Jeremy Rifkin Copy Share Image
Collective human actions are transforming, even ravaging, the biosphere - perhaps irreversibly - through global warming and loss of biodiversity. — Martin Rees Copy Share Image
It's always been a dream of mine, of exploring the living world, of classifying all the species and finding out what makes… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
One of the biggest things that needs to change is the educational system. Universities are still teaching a system to students that… — Ray Anderson Copy Share Image
Earth's biosphere gave birth to humans and our thoughts, which are now reshaping its planetary cycles. A planet with brains? Fancy that. — David Grinspoon Copy Share Image
Known as the biosphere to scientists and as the creation to theologians, all of life together consists of a membrane around earth… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
The college idealists who fill the ranks of the environmental movement seem willing to do absolutely anything to save the biosphere, except… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
This is suicidal... our home is the biosphere. That's a very thin layer of air, water and land where all life exists.… — David Suzuki Copy Share Image
Keep an eye on the weather, which is changing faster than predicted, and on the new diseases escaping or being made, even… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Development requires modification and transformation of the environment... the planet's capacity to support its people us being irreversibly reduced by the destruction… — Malcolm Fraser Copy Share Image
I firmly believe that contemporary spiritual use of entheogenic drugs is one of humankind's brightest hopes for overcoming the ecological crisis from… — Jonathan Ott Copy Share Image
What makes the IoT a disruptive technology in the way we organize economic life is that it helps humanity reintegrate itself into… — Jeremy Rifkin Copy Share Image
Saving the biosphere depends first and foremost on human beings reaching mutual understanding and unforced agreement as to common ends. And that… — Ken Wilber Copy Share Image
Harvesting the biosphere is still the most fundamental human activity. Without that, everybody's dead, really. We could do quite well without microchips,… — Vaclav Smil Copy Share Image
There are some things in the world we can't change- gravity, entropy, the speed of light, and our biological nature that requires… — David Suzuki Copy Share Image
Well, years and years ago, I started to ask myself three very simple questions, which dominated my life for many years. One… — Dee Hock Copy Share Image
We need a change in consciousness to go with this technology platform. We need a new narrative: we need to shift from… — Jeremy Rifkin Copy Share Image
In the Gaia theory air, water, and soil are major components of one central organism, planet Earth. What we typically think of… — David Easton Copy Share Image
We do not need to invent sustainable human communities. We can learn from societies that have lived sustainably for centuries. We can… — Fritjof Capra Copy Share Image
Like most problems with technology, pollution is a problem of scale. The biosphere might have been able to tolerate our dirty old… — Ronald Wright Copy Share Image
“Nothing is more important to human beings than an ecologically functioning, life sustaining biosphere on the earth. It is the only habitable… — Joseph Guth Copy Share Image
“[Religious belief is] outmoded and ridiculous. [Belief in gods was a] worn out but once useful crutch in mankind's journey towards truth.… — P.W. Atkins Copy Share Image
“The late Alan Gregg pointed out that human population growth within the ecosystem was closely analogous to the growth of malignant tumor… — Marston Bates Copy Share Image
“It necessarily follows that chance alone is at the source of every innovation, and of all creation in the biosphere. Pure chance,… — Jacques Monod Copy Share Image
Certainly for me, as an astrobiologist, science fiction has played an important role. One of the quandaries of our field is that… — David Grinspoon Copy Share Image
I think for me, at the end of the day, just because of who I am, my priority is the biosphere. That… — Anohni Copy Share Image
The living environment is the biosphere, the thin layer around the world of living organisms. We're part of that. Our existence is… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
Using less of the Earth’s resources more efficiently and productively in a circular economy and making the transition from carbon-based fuels to… — Jeremy Rifkin Copy Share Image
If we want to know how the Earth's biosphere is going to respond to the things that humans are doing to the… — Kenneth Lacovara Copy Share Image
Biology occupies a position among the sciences at once marginal and central. Marginal because-the living world constituting but a tiny and very… — Jacques Monod Copy Share Image
“In a sense, the Earth is mounting an immune response against the human species. It is beginning to react to the human… — Richard Preston Copy Share Image
If the human species, or indeed any part of the biosphere, is to continue to survive, it must eventually leave the Earth… — Frank J. Tipler Copy Share Image
“we’ve learned that some of our favorite things like DDT and the propellants in aerosol cans were rapidly unraveling the structure and… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Early ecologists soon realised that, since humans are organisms, ecology should include the study of the relationship between humans and the rest… — Richard Heinberg Copy Share Image
“NASA astronauts have only managed to live continuously on the International Space Station (ISS) for a year and Biosphere 2 on Earth… — Steven Magee Copy Share Image