“Nature doesn't have a design problem. People do.” — William McDonough ( ) Michael Braungart Copy Share Image
A garden is an awful responsibility. You never know what you may be aiding to grow in it. — Charles Dudley Warner Copy Share Image
Over and over again, we must stress that a healthy ecology is the basis for a healthy economy. — Claudine Schneider Copy Share Image
The first law of ecology is that everything is related to everything else. — Barry Commoner Copy Share Image
“When the Earth suffers, we do not stand outside it—we ache with her.” — Lawrence Nault Copy Share Image
I feel more confident than ever that the power to save the planet rests with the individual consumer. — Denis Hayes Copy Share Image
It is not man the ecological crisis threatens to destroy but the quality of human life. — Rene Dubos 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
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
I have hope that humanity will be cured of our collective ecological insanity and that we adapt to living within the boundaries… — Paul Watson 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
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
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
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
Probably the most visible example of unintended consequences, is what happens every time humans try to change the natural ecology of a… — Margaret J. Wheatley 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
You would have thought that our first priority would be to ask what the ecologists are finding out, because we have to… — David Suzuki Copy Share Image
Freedom isn't the right to do whatever the f*ck you want. Freedom is when you don't have to pay money for anything.… — Isaiah Harden (Me Copy Share Image
We don't even know what species are out there, for the most part, particularly when you get down to the microbes and… — E. O. Wilson 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
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
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
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
The time has come to link ecology to economic and human development. When you have seen one ant, one bird, one tree,… — E. O. Wilson 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
“We humans have a questionable track record in our dealings with the environment. Recent studies show that complete restoration of Florida’s Everglades… — Tommy Rodriguez Copy Share Image
Industrial Society is not merely one containing 'industry,' large-scale productive units capable of supplying man's material needs in a way which can… — Ernest Gellner 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
“Any attempt to solve the ecological crisis within a bourgeois framework must be dismissed as chimerical. Capitalism is inherently anti-ecological. Competition and… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
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
The most alarming of all man's assaults upon the environment is the contamination of air, earth, rivers, and sea with dangerous and… — Rachel Carson Copy Share Image
A sense of being part of the great all-inclusive life prompts us to reflect on our own place and on how we… — Daisaku Ikeda Copy Share Image
We shall be reduced to gnaw the very crust of the earth for nutriment. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Waste not the smallest thing created, for grains of sand make mountains, and atomies infinity. — Eric Knight Copy Share Image
Let us a little permit nature to take her own way; she better understands her own affairs than we. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
“Our ancestors dreamed us into being. The least we can do is listen when the earth speaks back.” — Lawrence Nault Copy Share Image
