Ecology Quotes

“Who is speaking for the waters of the Earth?”

— Gregory Cajete

Hell is Truth Seen Too Late.

— Thomas Hobbes

Nature is not a place to visit. It is home.

— Gary Snyder

Everything may serve a lower as well as a higher use.

— Henry David Thoreau

“Water is always working, reorganizing the land.”

— Tim Palmer

The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Don't blow it, good planets are hard to find.

— Anonymous

“Nature doesn't have a design problem. People do.”

— William McDonough ( ) Michael Braungart

Ecology and economy are becoming inextricably entwined, and the world is becoming more conscious of this fact.

— Azim Premji

“A dam tears at all the interconnected webs of river valley life.”

— Patrick McCully

The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own.

— Albert Ellis

The two most abundant forms of power on earth are solar and wind, and they're getting cheaper and cheaper...

— Ed Begley, Jr

There was the South Ozone National Bank looking as though it had been waiting for me.

— Willie Sutton

We need a new environmental consciousness on a global basis. To do this, we need to educate people.

— Mikhail Gorbachev

Continuity is at the heart of conservatism: ecology serves that heart.

— Garrett Hardin

When you pursue great flavor, you also pursue great ecology.

— Dan Barber

“...we need to remind ourselves that natural systems are much more finely tuned than we think, and if we like the way…

— Rowan Jacobsen

The lasting pleasures of contact with the natural world are not reserved for scientists but are available to anyone who will place…

— Rachel Carson

No one person has to do it all but if each one of us follow our heart and our own inclinations we…

— John Denver

I did physics because of my love of nature. As a young student of science, I was taught that physics was the…

— Vandana Shiva

By ecology we understand the total science of the connections of the organism to the surrounding external world.

— Ernst Haeckel

The ecological principle of unity in diversity grades into a richly mediated social principle; hence my use of the term social ecology.

— Murray Bookchin

The struggle to save the global environment is in one way much more difficult than the struggle to vanquish Hitler, for this…

— Al Gore

Our modern industrial economy takes a mountain covered with trees, lakes, running streams and transforms it into a mountain of junk, garbage,…

— Edward Abbey

We know from the truths of evolution and ecology that we are all related and interdependent. Anthropomorphism (crediting animals with human emotions…

— Michael Fox

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

First of all, developed countries have basically expropriated the atmosphere of the world community. But one must say clearly that we redistribute…

— Ottmar Edenhofer

For many of us, water simply flows from a faucet, and we think little about it beyond this point of contact. We…

— Sandra Postel

If anyone wants to save the planet, all they have to do is just stop eating meat. That's the single most important…

— Anonymous

“What about human beings? said the animals. Do you think we need human beings? Why not? said the Twins. And as quick…

— Thomas King

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

The primary threat to nature and people today comes from centralising and monopolising power and control. Not until diversity is made the…

— Vandana Shiva

“Perhaps to them and their peers their ecological consciousness is a bigger sign of prestige than a fur coat. Perhaps they feel…

— Slavenka Drakulić

A diverse ecosystem will also be resilient, because it contains many species with overlapping ecological functions that can partially replace one another.…

— Fritjof Capra

“Let me outline briefly as I can what seem to me the characteristics of these opposite kinds of mind. I conceive a…

— Wendell Berry

“Nothing is more important to human beings than an ecologically functioning, life sustaining biosphere on the earth. It is the only habitable…

— Joseph Guth

“Our deep irrational feelings of death anxiety have been attributed to multiple sources. In part, they may arise from evolved self-protection mechanisms…

— Richard J. Borden

“Strategies that did well in competition with other strategies were not, however, those that maximized the returns to agents. Rather, we found…

— Kevin N Laland

“The animal does not rebel against its own kind. Consider animals: how just they are, how well-behaved, how they keep to the…

— Carl Jung

“The desert and the ocean are realms of desolation on the surface. The desert is a place of bones, where the innards…

— Vera Nazarian