Ecological Quotes

164 quotes by 121 authors

Our challenge, our generation's unique challenge, is learning to live peacefully and sustainably in an extraordinarily crowded world. Our planet is crowded to an unprecendented… — Jeffrey Sachs
The only real form of pollution is people. Any ecological system which does not include the reduction or stopping of growth of the population is… — Unknown Author
I've moved away from that sort of deep-ecological extremism. I started to think: what can we do for wild birds right now? I don't want… — Jonathan Franzen
Man will survive as a species for one reason: He can adapt to the destructive effects of our power-intoxicated technology and of our ungoverned population… — Rene Dubos
It is not man the ecological crisis threatens to destroy but the quality of human life. — Rene Dubos
Although two thirds of our planet is water, we face an acute water shortage. The water crisis is the most pervasive , most severe, and… — Vandana Shiva
We must speak more clearly about sexuality, contraception, about abortion, about values that control population, because the ecological crisis, in short, is the population crisis.… — Mikhail Gorbachev
Flying has changed how we imagine our planet, which we have seen whole from space, so that even the farthest nations are ecological neighbors. It… — Diane Ackerman
Since my first discussions of ecological problems with Professor John Day around 1950 and since reading Konrad Lorenz's "King Solomon's Ring," I have become increasingly… — Allan McLeod Cormack
Contemporaneous with the financial crisis we have an ecological crisis and a health crisis. They are intimately interlinked. We cannot convert much more of the… — Charles Eisenstein
People are aware that they cannot continue in the same old way but are immobilized because they cannot imagine an alternative. We need a vision… — Grace Lee Boggs
We do not have an ecological crisis. The ecosphere has a human crisis. Our 'story' about our place in the scheme of things has somehow… — William E. Rees
I wouldnâ€™t want to be labelled unless it was something much broader and inclusive such as an ecological artist or a visionary artist, but thereâ€™s… — Carolee Schneemann
The roots of our ecological crises are axiomatic: they lie in our belief and value structures which shape our relationship with nature, with each other… — Unknown Author
You may ask what kind of a republic I dream of. Let me reply: I dream of a republic independent, free, and democratic, of a… — Vaclav Havel
Unless we stop the degradation of our oceans, marine ecological systems will begin collapsing and when enough of them fail, the oceans will die. And… — Paul Watson
We need what I have often called an ecological approach to the management of these resources and we do not have that now. We have… — Maurice Strong
The theory of evolution by natural selection is an ecological theory-founded on ecological observation by perhaps the greatest of all ecologists. It has been adopted… — Unknown Author
A case can certainly be made that Christians bear a major responsibility for our ecological crisis. But the fault is not their biblical but their… — James W. Sire
The path to relative economic, social and ecological sustainability is guaranteed to be littered with failures of every nature and scale. If we recognize them… — John Elkington

Who Wrote These Ecological Quotes

121 authors contributed a total of 164 Ecological Quotes, led by these top contributors: