The director of the institute where I was working apologized about these young, enthusiastic researchers when the World Bank visited because he… — Vandana Shiva 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 lasting pleasures of contact with the natural world are not reserved for scientists but are available to anyone who will place… — Rachel Carson Copy Share Image
Our modern industrial economy takes a mountain covered with trees, lakes, running streams and transforms it into a mountain of junk, garbage,… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
In an ecology of love, people can relate in trust and face the future without fear. They do not need to play… — Jonathan Sacks Copy Share Image
Each portion of matter may be conceived of as a garden full of plants, and as a pond full of fishes. But… — Gottfried Leibniz Copy Share Image
We don't know nearly enough about the complexities of Nature. If we think we can eliminate natural ecosystems and substitute prosthetic devices,… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
If you can command a lot of attention, that's what is valuable, and many in the commercial ecology would like to have… — Mitch Kapor Copy Share Image
Although I am fully convinced of the truth of Evolution, I by no means expect to convince experienced naturalists. But I look… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Our oil-based society depends on non-renewable resources. It requires relentless probing into vast reaches of pristine land, sacrificing vital bioregions, and irreplaceable… — Leonardo DiCaprio Copy Share Image
As a word, ecology has been so debased by recent political usage that many people employ it to identify anything good that… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
“The story of our human lineage is continually enlarged, almost daily, by discoveries from physical anthropology, archeology, and genetics.” — Richard J. Borden Copy Share Image
“The desert and the ocean are realms of desolation on the surface. The desert is a place of bones, where the innards… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
We need a new environmental consciousness on a global basis. To do this, we need to educate people. — Mikhail Gorbachev Copy Share Image
We all moan and groan about the loss of the quality of life through the destruction of our ecology, and yet every… — Ed Asner Copy Share Image
Cultivating and conserving diversity is no luxury in our times: it is a survival imperative. — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
“We travel together, passengers on a little space ship, dependent on its vulnerable reserves of air and soil; all committed for our… — Adlai Stevenson Copy Share Image
“But as the Everglades continued to wither, a few of their colleagues began to wonder if conservation really should mean development more… — Michael Grunwald Copy Share Image
Throughout our lives friends enclose us like pairs of parentheses. They shift our boundaries; crater our terrain. They fume through the cracks… — Beth Kephart Copy Share Image
Man has been endowed with reason, with the power to create, so that he can add to what he's been given. — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
“Let me outline briefly as I can what seem to me the characteristics of these opposite kinds of mind. I conceive a… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
