The Captains of Industry have always counseled the rest of us "to be realistic." Let us, therefore, be realistic. Is it realistic… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Lack of accountability weakens the environmental and health rights of citizens; it damages peace- building and reconciliation initiatives; impedes the implementation of… — Widad Akrawi Copy Share Image
What would it mean if there were a theory that explained everything? And just what does "everything" actually mean, anyway? Would this… — Ken Wilber Copy Share Image
Seasonally ploughing and harvesting crops will mash up a few moles, slice through a burrow of field mice and crush any ground-nesting… — Tristram Stuart Copy Share Image
Earth as an ecosystem stands out in the all of the universe. There's no place that we know about that can support… — Sylvia Earle Copy Share Image
Acknowledging our love for the living world does something that a library full of papers on sustainable development and ecosystem services cannot:… — George Monbiot Copy Share Image
Through scientific discovery and technological innovation, we enlist the forces of the natural world to solve many of the uniquely human problems… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
In other words, people should be placed in parks within ecosystems instead of parks placed in human communities. We need vast areas… — Paul Watson Copy Share Image
Each of these [bacterial] species are masterpieces of evolution. Each has persisted for thousands to millions of years. Each is exquisitely adapted… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
A large animal needs a large area. If you protect that area, you're also protecting thousands of other plants and animals. You're… — George Schaller Copy Share Image
The evolutionary vision is agnostic in regard to systems in the universe of greater complexity than those of which human beings have… — Kenneth E. Boulding Copy Share Image
School leadership has been identified as another critical element of student success, and subsequently enough resources and training should be provided to… — Shaheen Mistri Copy Share Image
The fungi became, or is for some mysterious reason still to be discovered, a pipeline into a mind, an entelechy, which we… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
I would remind people on the planet that this is the only one we have, and we need to take care of… — Amanda Schull Copy Share Image
The nuclear peril is usually seen in isolation from the threats to other forms of life and their ecosystems, but in fact… — Jonathan Schell Copy Share Image
For millennia the two-million acre redwood ecosystem thrived and sheltered myriad species of life. In the last 150 years, 97 percent of… — Julia Hill Copy Share Image
The realizations of anarchist ideas and practices are like sociopolitical ecosystems. Local versions resemble each other, but they are endlessly adaptive and… — Scott Crow Copy Share Image
Turn off your televisions. Ignore the Newt-Mitt-Rick- Barack reality show. It is as relevant to your life as the gossip on “Jersey… — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
I think one of the most important investments an organization like TNC [The Nature Conservancy] can make is in helping build local… — Edward Norton Copy Share Image
Scientists have been saying, for an awfully long time, that we're all interconnected. Scientists would use the word 'ecosystem' to express that… — Naomi Oreskes Copy Share Image
The early Triassic was a period when the planet was recovering from the worst mass extinction it had ever known - that… — Annalee Newitz Copy Share Image
“In a world where very few people care if you live or die, there is a light that shines in the distance.… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
Personal computing today is a rich ecosystem encompassing massive PC-based data centers, notebook and Tablet PCs, handheld devices, and smart cell phones.… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
If enough species are extinguished, will the ecosystems collapse, and will the extinction of most other species follow soon afterward? The only… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
I think that the environmental movement is wisely moving away from a largely emotion-based argument for the spiritual or intrinsic value of… — Edward Norton Copy Share Image
Let us be good stewards of the Earth we inherited. All of us have to share the Earth's fragile ecosystems and precious… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
If we recognise that every ecosystem can also be viewed as a food web, we can think of it as a circular,… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
Cities should function more like ecosystems, or even metabolisms. When we build, we should be thinking about how we can integrate into… — Annalee Newitz Copy Share Image
Oil depletion and climate change will create an entirely new context in which political struggles will be played out. Within that context,… — Richard Heinberg Copy Share Image
If you want a cow to be not just a cow but a milk machine, you can do a very good job… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
The reductionist measure of yield is to agriculture systems, what GDP is to economic systems. It is time to move from measuring… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
Now is not the time to repudiate environmental balance, but rather it is the time for all of us to work together… — Robert Redford Copy Share Image
To emotionally accept impending disaster, to attain the gut-level understanding that the power elite will not respond rationally to the devastation of… — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
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