“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
We shall continue to have a worsening ecologic crisis until we reject the Christian axiom that nature has no reason for existence… — Lynn Townsend White, Jr Copy Share Image
“If there can be a better way for the real world to include the one of images, it will require an ecology… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
The world's deteriorating ecology poses as great a danger to mankind today as did the nuclear standoff between the superpowers at the… — Mikhail Gorbachev Copy Share Image
“These folk are hewers of trees and hunters of beasts; therefore we are their unfriends, and if they will not depart we… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
The site I landed on feels much more isolated than it really is; it's almost magical. Within its limited radius, there was… — Martin Puryear Copy Share Image
I like to think (it has to be!) of a cybernetic ecology where we are free of our labors and joined back… — Richard Brautigan 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
Architects have to become designers of eco-systems. Not just designers of beautiful facades or beautiful sculptures, but systems of economy and ecology,… — Bjarke Ingels Copy Share Image
“The dominant culture eats entire biomes. No, that is too generous, because eating implies a natural biological relationship. This culture doesn't just… — Aric McBay Copy Share Image
“It was not enough that food aplenty was within Man’s grasp: he wanted more. It was not enough that prey surrendered themselves… — David Bowles Copy Share Image
“It isn’t the world at stake, Ender. Just us. Just humankind. As far as the rest of the earth is concerned, we… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“When you examine societies just as self-confident as ours that unraveled and were eventually swallowed by the jungle...you see that the balance… — Arthur Demarest Copy Share Image
Restoration ecology is experimental science, a science of love and altruism. In its attempts to reverse the processes of ecosystem degradation it… — Stephanie Mills Copy Share Image
When climate change gets some attention in a 100-page document, the most important parts of which will have to do with the… — George Weigel Copy Share Image
The primary threat to nature and people today comes from centralising and monopolising power and control. Not until diversity is made the… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
“There is an allegory for historians in the diverse functions of saw, wedge, and axe. The saw works only across the years,… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
“Compared to forest or aquatic ecosystems, grassland is unstable. It requires rather precise geological and climatic conditions, and if these conditions are… — David Rains Wallace Copy Share Image
There is behavioral ecology, which looks closely at the difference different ecologies make to behavior and other features of animals and humans.… — Brian Boyd Copy Share Image
Only within the 20th Century has biological thought been focused on ecology, or the relation of the living creature to its environment.… — Rachel Carson Copy Share Image
“The environment is not an "other" to us. It is not a collection of things that we encounter. Rather, it is part… — George Lakoff Copy Share Image
“We need myths that will help us to identify with all our fellow-beings, not simply with those who belong to our ethnic,… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
“The reckless application of technology, harnessed to greed, degrades and destroys the ecosystems in which the energies of the elements are maintained… — Ralph Metzner Copy Share Image
In the Germany of the l920s, the Weimar Republic, both organismic biology and Gestalt psychology were part of a larger intellectual trend… — Fritjof Capra Copy Share Image
People are beginning to realize that we need to live in accordance with the law of ecology, the law of finite resources,… — Paul Watson Copy Share Image
“...It's not that the worm forgives the plough; it gives it no mind. (Pain occurs, in passing.) (lines 37-39 in the poem… — Philip Gross Copy Share Image
As long as hierarchy persists, as long as domination organises humanity around a system of elites, the project of dominating nature will… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
I think buildings should imitate ecological systems. Ecological systems in nature before we had human beings you know interfere with them exist… — Ken Yeang Copy Share Image
Modern man talks of a battle with nature, forgetting that, if he won the battle, he would find himself on the losing… — E. F. Schumacher Copy Share Image
We need to have a course in school that teaches about ecology and gastronomy. I could imagine that all children could eat… — Alice Waters Copy Share Image
I'm not an extreme tree-hugger. I do believe trees grow and are a useful agricultural product that can be harvested without damaging… — John C. Malone 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
“No one is an outside observer of nature, We're defined by our environment and our interaction with that environment -- by our… — Beau Lotto Copy Share Image
Ecology is a dirty seven-letter word to many people. They are like heavy sleepers refusing to be aroused. "Leave me alone! It's… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
“What about human beings? said the animals. Do you think we need human beings? Why not? said the Twins. And as quick… — Thomas King Copy Share Image
This generation may either be the last to exist in any semblance of a civilised world or that it will be the… — Richard St. Barbe Baker Copy Share Image
We know from the truths of evolution and ecology that we are all related and interdependent. Anthropomorphism (crediting animals with human emotions… — Michael Fox Copy Share Image
Politicians need a better understanding of global ecology. We need to be freed from our species-specific arrogance. No evidence exists that we… — Lynn Margulis Copy Share Image
For many of us, water simply flows from a faucet, and we think little about it beyond this point of contact. We… — Sandra Postel Copy Share Image
First of all, developed countries have basically expropriated the atmosphere of the world community. But one must say clearly that we redistribute… — Ottmar Edenhofer Copy Share Image
