A hostility to modernity is shared by ideologies that have nothing else in common - a nostalgia for moral clarity, small-town intimacy,… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
Man will survive as a species for one reason: He can adapt to the destructive effects of our power-intoxicated technology and of… — Rene Dubos Copy Share Image
Moreover, the practical recommendations deduced from ecological principles threaten the vested interests of commerce; it is hardly surprising that the financial and… — Garrett Hardin Copy Share Image
The ecological challenges we face are the result of billions of ecologically ignorant decisions made by billions of people over centuries. To… — Allen Hershkowitz Copy Share Image
The origin of agriculture involved both human intentionality and a set of underlying ecological and evolutionary principles. — Kent V. Flannery Copy Share Image
Simplicity means to choose ways of living that touch the Earth more lightly and that reduce our ecological footprint. — Duane Elgin Copy Share Image
An ecological approach to the economy is about having enough, not having more. — John Bellamy Foster Copy Share Image
The new paradigm may be called a holistic world view, seeing the world as an integrated whole rather than a dissociated collection… — Fritjof Capra Copy Share Image
Inevitably, ecological awareness has this kind of '70s flavour to it. — Timothy Morton Copy Share Image
The people who see the population explosion in the Malthusian way - as a geometric progression - forget that population growth is… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
The hierarchy of relations, from the molecular structure of carbon to the equilibrium of the species and ecological whole, will perhaps be… — Joseph Needham Copy Share Image
Our challenge, our generation's unique challenge, is learning to live peacefully and sustainably in an extraordinarily crowded world. Our planet is crowded… — Jeffrey Sachs Copy Share Image
Our present ecological crisis, the biggest single practical threat to our human existence in the middle to long term, has, religious people… — Rowan Williams Copy Share Image
In nature the only source of energy is from the sun. So in ecological systems everything comes from the sun through the… — Ken Yeang Copy Share Image
Faced with the widespread destruction of the environment, people everywhere are coming to understand that we cannot continue to use the goods… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
The ecological principle in agriculture is to connect the genius of the place, to fit the farming to the farm. — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
If you look into the way that materials are used in an ecological system you'll notice that you'll find that there is… — Ken Yeang Copy Share Image
First thing the developer has to do is to get an assessment of the threatened species, of the ecological values of that… — Frank Sartor Copy Share Image
Sustainability is a seemingly laudable goal - it tells us we need to live within our means, whether economic, ecological, or political… — Jamais Cascio Copy Share Image
A diverse ecosystem will also be resilient, because it contains many species with overlapping ecological functions that can partially replace one another.… — Fritjof Capra Copy Share Image
The world is a complex, interconnected, finite, ecological - social - psychological - economic system. We treat it as if it were… — Donella Meadows Copy Share Image
The hatred of the youth culture for adult society is not a disinterested judgement but a terror-ridden refusal to be hooked into… — Midge Decter Copy Share Image
It turns out that conservationism can be fun, with the news that the Norwegian red king crab - which weighs in at… — Ian O'Doherty Copy Share Image
We have a very old conservation movement, particularly in the United States, which has focused on campaigns to protect endangered species: the… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
