Biosphere Quotes

46 quotes by 32 authors

Evolution in the biosphere is therefore a necessarily irreversible process defining a direction in time; a direction which is the same as that enjoined by… — Jacques Monod
Even today a good many distinguished minds seem unable to accept or even to understand that from a source of noise natural selection alone and… — Jacques Monod
Most of us have lost that sense of unity of biosphere and humanity which would bind and reassure us all with an affirmation of beauty.… — Gregory Bateson
Today the network of relationships linking the human race to itself and to the rest of the biosphere is so complex that all aspects affect… — Murray Gell-Mann
Known as the biosphere to scientists and as the creation to theologians, all of life together consists of a membrane around earth so thin that… — E. O. Wilson
We are seeking another basic outlook: the world as an organization. This would profoundly change categories of our thinking and influence our practical attitudes. We… — Ludwig von Bertalanffy
When some portion of the biosphere is rather unpopular with the human race-a crocodile, a dandelion, a stony valley, a snowstorm, an odd-shaped flint-there are… — Mary Midgley
...no matter how complex or affluent, human societies are nothing but subsystems of the biosphere, the Earth's thin veneer of life, which is ultimately run… — Vaclav Smil
What makes the IoT a disruptive technology in the way we organize economic life is that it helps humanity reintegrate itself into the complex choreography… — Jeremy Rifkin
We need a change in consciousness to go with this technology platform. We need a new narrative: we need to shift from geopolitics to biosphere… — Jeremy Rifkin
Plants with leaves no more efficient than today's solar cells could out-compete real plants, crowding the biosphere with an inedible foliage. Tough omnivorous bacteria could… — K. Eric Drexler
The only truly dependable production technologies are those that are sustainable over the long term. By that very definition, they must avoid erosion, pollution, environmental… — Eliot Coleman
Do we want to be remembered as the generation that saved the banks and let the biosphere collapse? — George Monbiot
Itâ€™s not a requirement to eat animals, we just choose to do it, so it becomes a moral choice and one that is having a… — James Cameron
Chance alone is at the source of every innovaton, of all creation in the biosphere. Pure chance, only chance, absolute but blind liberty is at… — Jacques Monod
The radiations that pour upon the earth cause the biosphere to take on properties unknown to lifeless planetary surfaces, and thus transform the face of… — Vladimir Vernadsky
Looking outward to the blackness of space, sprinkled with the glory of a universe of lights, I saw majesty-but no welcome. Below was a welcoming… — Loren Acton
In the Gaia theory air, water, and soil are major components of one central organism, planet Earth. What we typically think of as life -… — David Easton
Saving the biosphere depends first and foremost on human beings reaching mutual understanding and unforced agreement as to common ends. And that intersubjective accord occurs… — Ken Wilber
Biology occupies a position among the sciences at once marginal and central. Marginal because-the living world constituting but a tiny and very "special" part of… — Jacques Monod

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