There is an increasing sense of what can be called legal pollution. — Thomas Ehrlich 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
If you've read 'Dark Ecology,' you'll know there's a whole thing about cats in it, more than once. — Timothy Morton Copy Share Image
We shall be reduced to gnaw the very crust of the earth for nutriment. — Henry David Thoreau 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
Waste not the smallest thing created, for grains of sand make mountains, and atomies infinity. — Eric Knight 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
It is not man the ecological crisis threatens to destroy but the quality of human life. — Rene Dubos 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, the generation that faces the next century, can add the solemn injunction ''If we don't do the impossible, we shall be… — Petra Kelly 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
“A dam is monumentally static; it tries to bring a river under control, to regulate its seasonal pattern of floods and low… — Patrick McCully Copy Share Image
There should be more attention paid to scientific research in the ecology area, and I think that such attention to proper environmental… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We often speak of "deep ecology," but this is also Deep Eco-Psychology: how the environment can remind us of, and help mend,… — Michael Tobias Copy Share Image
Labels bias our perceptions, thinking, and behavior. A label or story can either separate us from, or connect us to, nature. For… — Michael J Cohen 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
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 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
Considering that we live in an era of evolutionary everything---evolutionary biology, evolutionary medicine, evolutionary ecology, evolutionary psychology, evolutionary economics, evolutionary computing---it was… — Michael Crichton 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
“Above all we should, in the century since Darwin, have come to know that man, while now captain of the adventuring ship,… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
We cannot wholly rely, as though it were Medieval times, [on the notion that] the only reality is what we see in… — John Hodgman Copy Share Image
“Luxury as beauty" has nothing to do with a particular place or an object's price tag. It is seeing with eyes for… — Frances Moore Lappé Copy Share Image
“Thoreau the “Patron Saint of Swamps” because he enjoyed being in them and writing about them said, “my temple is the swamp…… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Financial institutions have been merging into a smaller number of very large banks. Almost all banks are interrelated. So the financial ecology… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb 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
When I was very young, biology, the diversity of life, was one of my main interests. I know there's this image people… — Leonardo DiCaprio 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
“Many conscientious environmentalists are repelled by the word "abundance," automatically associating it with irresponsible consumerism and plundering of Earth's resources. In the… — Jeane Manning Copy Share Image
“Faced with an ecological crisis whose roots lie in this disengagement, in the separation of human agency and social responsibility from the… — Tim Ingold Copy Share Image
To speak of ‘limits to growth’ under a capitalistic market economy is as meaningless as to speak of limits of warfare under… — Murray Bookchin 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
“When the Earth suffers, we do not stand outside it—we ache with her.” — Lawrence Nault Copy Share Image
The first law of ecology is that everything is related to everything else. — Barry Commoner 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
I have a certain pool of subject matter that I like to write about, things that interest me: politics, religion, ecology, and… — Don Henley Copy Share Image
That land is a community is the basic concept of ecology, but that land is to be loved and respected is an… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
No one species shall make the life of the world its own.' … That's one expression of the law. Here's another: 'The… — Daniel Quinn Copy Share Image