The human juggernaut is permanently eroding Earth's ancient biosphere. — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
Why is it so easy to save the banks - but so hard to save the biosphere? — George Monbiot 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
Can we reach biosphere consciousness and global empathy in time to avert planetary collapse? — Jeremy Rifkin Copy Share Image
Do we want to be remembered as the generation that saved the banks and let the biosphere collapse? — George Monbiot Copy Share Image
Protecting the biosphere should be our highest priority or else we sicken and die. — David Suzuki Copy Share Image
“Yet the biosphere constructs itself, evolves, and has persisted for 3.8 billion years.” — Stuart A. Kauffman Copy Share Image
There is a massive ecosystem that has to get built that looks like a biosphere. And the various parts of that biosphere… — Juan Enriquez Copy Share Image
If I hadn't been inside of Biosphere 2 and really lived a biological life-support system, I definitely would not be involved in… — Jane Poynter 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
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
...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
Other things, like capitalism, free enterprise, the economy, currency, the market, are not forces of nature, we invented them. They are not… — David Suzuki 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
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
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
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
Yet what is more awesome: to believe that God created everything in six days, or to believe that the biosphere came into… — Stuart Kauffman 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
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
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
“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
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
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 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
“[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
“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
“Gaia is a thin spherical shell of matter that surrounds the incandescent interior; it begins where the crustal rocks meet the magma… — James Lovelock Copy Share Image
Vegas is purposefully constructed as a self-enclosed and isolated biosphere, sort of what a recreational colony built on the moon might be… — Marc Cooper Copy Share Image
The ocean is interacting with the surface. There is a possible biosphere that extends from way below the surface to just above… — Richard Greenberg 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'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 grand design of nature perceived broadly in four dimensions, including the forces that move the universe and created man, with special… — Roger Wolcott Sperry 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
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
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