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
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
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
The schedules are crammed with shows urging us to travel further, drive faster, build bigger, buy more, yet none of them are… — George Monbiot 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
Plants with leaves no more efficient than today's solar cells could out-compete real plants, crowding the biosphere with an inedible foliage. Tough… — K. Eric Drexler Copy Share Image
The ability of human beings to be creative depends fundamentally on the health and well-being of our biosphere, the few kilometres of… — Freeman Patterson Copy Share Image
Protecting the biosphere should be our highest priority or else we sicken and die. — David Suzuki Copy Share Image
...no matter how complex or affluent, human societies are nothing but subsystems of the biosphere, the Earth's thin veneer of life, which… — Vaclav Smil 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
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
Can we reach biosphere consciousness and global empathy in time to avert planetary collapse? — Jeremy Rifkin 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
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
Even today a good many distinguished minds seem unable to accept or even to understand that from a source of noise natural… — Jacques Monod Copy Share Image
Evolution in the biosphere is therefore a necessarily irreversible process defining a direction in time; a direction which is the same as… — Jacques Monod 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
The human juggernaut is permanently eroding Earth's ancient biosphere. — E. O. Wilson 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
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
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
