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
Above all, we should question the consumer ethic, which uses up non-renewable resources, creates inequality and injustice, generates pollution, destroys other species… — Peter Marshall 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
“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
“in the heat of unprecedented technological breakthroughs it is easy to think that we are invincible, like gods who would rule the… — Hal Zina Bennett 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
“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
Looking outward to the blackness of space, sprinkled with the glory of a universe of lights, I saw majesty-but no welcome. Below… — Loren Acton 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
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 our time we have come to the stage where the real work of humanity begins. It is the time where we… — Jean Houston 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
“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
When some portion of the biosphere is rather unpopular with the human race-a crocodile, a dandelion, a stony valley, a snowstorm, an… — Mary Midgley Copy Share Image
We are seeking another basic outlook: the world as an organization. This would profoundly change categories of our thinking and influence our… — Ludwig von Bertalanffy 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
Why is it so easy to save the banks - but so hard to save the biosphere? — George Monbiot 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
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
These proven positive consequences of elevated CO2 are infinitely more important than the unsubstantiated predictions of apocalypse that are hypothesized to result… — Keith E. Idso Copy Share Image
The only truly dependable production technologies are those that are sustainable over the long term. By that very definition, they must avoid… — Eliot Coleman Copy Share Image
We have to be in abundance and recognize that we're just a small piece of this big thing that's moving along the… — Peter Buffett Copy Share Image
We have carbon in the atmosphere. That is a material in the wrong place problem. It's just like what I said about… — William McDonough Copy Share Image
The radiations that pour upon the earth cause the biosphere to take on properties unknown to lifeless planetary surfaces, and thus transform… — Vladimir Vernadsky Copy Share Image
As the ongoing industrial crusade to turn all earthly life to commercial purpose relentlessly impoverishes the biosphere and human culture, our living… — Stephanie Mills Copy Share Image
