Degradation Quote by Barry Commoner

The organic material, as the laws of chemistry state, can neither be created nor destroyed.

— Dixie Lee Ray

Can the synthesis of man and machine ever be stable, or will the purely organic component become such a hindrance that it has to…

— Arthur C. Clarke

To achieve true sustainability, we must reduce our "garbage index" - that which we permanently throw away into the environment that will not be…

— David Korten

They fail to recognize the broad biological principle that organic material is constantly being recycled. Everything has a time of being - a birth,…

— Dixie Lee Ray

Anything organic requires some dose of variability so it can adapt all the time, and fixing things is not a good idea.

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

If you look into the way that materials are used in an ecological system you'll notice that you'll find that there is no waste.…

— Ken Yeang

Finally, since human beings are uniquely capable of producing materials not found in nature, environmental degradation may be due to the resultant intrusion into…

— Barry Commoner

In nature there is no such thing as waste. In nature nothing is wasted; everything is recycled.

— David Suzuki

I myself did not officially become organic until 1997, although I was always hopeless at using chemicals.

— Monty Don

Perhaps the simplest example is a synthetic plastic, which unlike natural materials, is not degraded by biological decay. It therefore persists as rubbish or…

— Barry Commoner

Synthesis..., perhaps in greater measure than activities in any other area of organic chemistry, provides a measure of the condition and power of science.…

— Robert Burns Woodward

It needs to connect with the earth. Things that are processed and reprocessed lose their substance.

— Alexander McQueen