Ecological Quotes
164 quotes by 121 authors
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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
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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
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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
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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
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It is not man the ecological crisis threatens to destroy but the quality of human life.
— Rene Dubos
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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I wouldn’t want to be labelled unless it was something much broader and inclusive such as an ecological artist or a visionary artist, but there’s…
— Carolee Schneemann
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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