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
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
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
“Yet the biosphere constructs itself, evolves, and has persisted for 3.8 billion years.” — Stuart A. Kauffman 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
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
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
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
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
Most of us have lost that sense of unity of biosphere and humanity which would bind and reassure us all with an… — Gregory Bateson 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
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
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
Is it too much to ask, to live in a world where our human gifts go toward the benefit of all? Where… — Charles Eisenstein Copy Share Image
“ICTs are modifying the very nature of, and hence what we mean by, reality, by transforming it into an infosphere. Infosphere is… — Luciano Floridi Copy Share Image
Biology is a science of three dimensions. The first is the study of each species across all levels of biological organization, molecule… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
Humans are remarkable: the first species in almost four billion years of life on earth that dominates the biosphere. This gives us… — David Christian 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
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
“The question today, then, is whether the world's populations are not close to having done with soft sciences and technologies, which still… — Paul Virilio 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
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
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
“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
“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
“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
Collective human actions are transforming, even ravaging, the biosphere - perhaps irreversibly - through global warming and loss of biodiversity. — Martin Rees Copy Share Image
Protecting the biosphere should be our highest priority or else we sicken and die. — David Suzuki 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
Can we reach biosphere consciousness and global empathy in time to avert planetary collapse? — Jeremy Rifkin Copy Share Image
And somehow mother nature manages to create this incredible biosphere, to create this incredibly rich environment of animals and plants with this… — Freeman Dyson 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
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
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