Natural world Quote by Alex Gerber Jr

In its present terms, the global system values property over human life.

— William Greider

We need a new system of values, a system of the organic unity between humankind and nature and the ethic of global responsibility.

— Mikhail Gorbachev

“The social view of humanity, namely that of social ecology, focuses primarily on the historic emergence of hierarchy and the need to eliminate hierarchical…

— Murray Bookchin

“What man does for his own desires and comforts affects the complex total-of-life, the ecology, and his short-term gains can bring long-term disadvantages. The…

— Isaac Asimov

“The ending of war, the resolution of poverty, the creation of a material abundance unseen in history to meet human needs, the removal of…

— Tzm Team

“In the end, people are only able to think and feel within the limits of the "system", the specific culture of the society they…

— Yukito Ayatsuji

“The only thing that one really knows about human nature is that it changes. Change is the one quality we can predicate of it.…

— Oscar Wilde

The tragic reality is that very few sustainable systems are designed or applied by those who hold power, and the reason for this is…

— Bill Mollison

A system must be managed. It will not manage itself. Left to themselves in the Western world, components become selfish, competitive. We cannot afford…

— W. Edwards Deming

Capitalism has brought about the emancipation of collective humanity with respect to nature. But this collective humanity has itself taken on with respect to…

— Simone Weil

Man is suddenly becoming aware that by an ill-considered exploitation of nature he risks destroying it and becoming in his turn the victim of…

— Pope Paul VI

“Social Ecology: The notion that man must dominate nature emerges directly from the domination of man by man… But it was not until organic…

— Murray Bookchin