"The first law of ecology is that everything……" — Barry Commoner

"The first law of ecology is that everything is related to everything else."

50 Quotes by Barry Commoner

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The proper use of science is not to conquer nature but to live in it.
Despite the dazzling successes of modern technology and the unprecedented power of modern military systems, they suffer from a common…
What is new is that environmentalism intensely illuminates the need to confront the corporate domain at its most powerful and…
When you fully understand the situation, it is worse than you think.
Recycling is a good thing to do. It makes people feel good to do it. The thing I want to…
Everything is connected to everything else. Everything must go somewhere. Nature knows best. There is no such thing as a…
We are in an environmental crisis which threatens the survival of this nation, and of the world as a suitable…
In every case, the environmental hazards were made known only by independent scientists, who were often bitterly opposed by the…
If you ask what you are going to do about global warming, the only rational answer is to change the…
By adopting the control strategy, the nation's environmental program has created a built-in antagonism between environmental quality and economic growth.
After all, despite the economic advantage to firms that employed child labor, it was in the social interest, as a…
Environmental quality was drastically improved while economic activity grew by the simple expedient of removing lead from gasoline - which…

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More Ecology Quotes

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A true conservationist is a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers, but borrowed from… — John James Audubon
All nations are degrading and consuming their environment to a point beyond capacity. In the past 15 years in the… — Gaylord Nelson
Today, people are talking about many things: the danger of war and frequent clashes, water and air pollution, hunger, the… — Fethullah Gulen
The time has come to link ecology to economic and human development. When you have seen one ant, one bird,… — E. O. Wilson
Nature provides a free lunch, but only if we control our appetites. — William Ruckelshaus
We are seeing the birth of a new perspective of the world, where ecology and economics are two sides of… — Leif Johansson
The site I landed on feels much more isolated than it really is; it's almost magical. Within its limited radius,… — Martin Puryear
Over and over again, we must stress that a healthy ecology is the basis for a healthy economy. — Unknown Author
The beginning point at both conferences must be that everything is a woman's issue. That means racism in a woman's… — Charlotte Bunch
With laissez-faire and price atomic, Ecology's Uneconomic, But with another kind of logic Economy's Unecologic. — Kenneth E. Boulding
A massive campaign must be launched to restore a high-quality environment in North America and to de-develop the United States...De-development… — John Holdren
The climate change debate is basically not about science; it is about ideology. It is not about global temperature; it… — Vaclav Klaus

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