“It may be said, in broad-brush terms, that the primary purpose of life is the continuation of life. A deep program for… — Richard J. Borden Copy Share Image
Look at what realists have done for us. They have led us to war and climate change, poverty on an unimaginable scale,… — Satish Kumar Copy Share Image
The climate change debate is basically not about science; it is about ideology. It is not about global temperature; it is about… — Vaclav Klaus Copy Share Image
On a grander scale, when a society segregates itself, the consequences affect the economy, the emotions, and the ecology. That's one reason… — Joel Salatin Copy Share Image
Often what is nearest is hardest of all to see - try asking a fish to define water. Distance opens a door… — Vicki Goldberg Copy Share Image
In recent years it has become impossible to talk about man's relation to nature without referring to "ecology"...such leading scientists in this… — Rachel Carson Copy Share Image
I think our intelligence is a source of toxicity to nature and discomfort to ourselves unless our values are based on planetary… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
“Eco” comes from the Greek word oikos, meaning home. Ecology is the study of home, while economics is the management of home.… — David Suzuki Copy Share Image
As we gain satisfaction from artificial substitutes for nature we forget that there is no known substitute for Nature, the real thing… — Michael J Cohen Copy Share Image
When the study of the household (ecology) and the management of the household (economics) can be merged, and when ethics can be… — Eugene Odum Copy Share Image
“It was only after oral tales became written orthodoxies that some people were labeled “pagans” and “heretics” and burned at the stake… — Peter K. Fallon Copy Share Image
World trade depends on differences among countries, not similarities. Different countries are in different stages of development. It is appropriate for them… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
Like a shadow that does not permit us to jump over it, but moves with us to maintain its proper distance, pollution… — William Irwin Thompson Copy Share Image
The way I think of it, economics and ecology occupy two intellectual silos, isolated from each other. Even when they do take… — Charles C. Mann Copy Share Image
We need senators who have studied physics and representatives who understand ecology. — Vera Rubin Copy Share Image
All I ask is that we compare human consciousness with spirochete ecology. — Lynn Margulis Copy Share Image
“A dam tears at all the interconnected webs of river valley life.” — Patrick McCully Copy Share Image
There was the South Ozone National Bank looking as though it had been waiting for me. — Willie Sutton Copy Share Image
The first law of ecology is that everything is related to everything else. — Barry Commoner Copy Share Image
Economists don't seem to have noticed that the economy sits entirely within the ecology. — Carl Safina Copy Share Image
“The Earth was singing her revolution. She was calling her brave men and women to her defense.” — Rivera Sun Copy Share Image
After all, this is a world of rock and water and air. It is elemental. It is not ours. — Janet Kauffman Copy Share Image
I believe our only hope for the future is to adopt a new conception of human ecology, one in which we start… — Ken Robinson Copy Share Image
If the bee disappeared off the face of the earth, man would only have four years left to live. — Maurice Maeterlinck Copy Share Image
I forced myself to think what is the new concept and it became clear to me that it was risk, not only… — Ulrich Beck Copy Share Image
“Wolves directly affect the entire ecosystem, not just moose populations, their main prey, because less moose equals more tree growth” — Rolf Peterson Copy Share Image
I do see a lot of the hard end of ecology, and my feeling is that we live on a super-exciting planet… — Bear Grylls Copy Share Image
When I went to university, I decided that I would like to do something related to plant ecology, because I felt that… — Corneille Ewango Copy Share Image
In our own time, through integrative sciences like ecology and animal behavior and psychology we have re-understood what was forgotten during the… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
We go to sanctuaries to remember the things we hold most dear, the things we cherish and love. And then-the great challenge-we… — William Cronon Copy Share Image
“Unlike the clonal longevity of asexual organisms, sexually reproduced plants and animals usually have briefer, individual life cycles. In short, the enormous… — Richard J. Borden Copy Share Image
If religion is the establishing of a relationship between man and the universe, then morality is the explanation of those activities that… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
In 1969, I wrote a musical called 'Mother Earth.' It was a rock musical with an ecology theme. We did it at… — Toni Tennille Copy Share Image
Food is about agriculture, about ecology, about man's relationship with nature, about the climate, about nation-building, cultural struggles, friends and enemies, alliances,… — Mark Kurlansky Copy Share Image
A single, one-dimensional way of thinking has created a monoculture of the mind. And the monoculture of the mind has become a… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
The popes have spoken of human ecology, closely linked to environmental ecology. We are living in a time of crisis: we see… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
[A]ll the categories of creatures act individually as special-case and may be linearly analyzed; retrospectively, it is discoverable that inadvertently they are… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image