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Ecological Quotes by Murray Bookchin
- Capitalism can no more be 'persuaded' to limit growth than a human being can be 'persuaded' to stop breathing. Attempts to 'green' capitalism, to make…
- Until society can be reclaimed by an undivided humanity that will use its collective wisdom, cultural achievements, technological innovations, scientific knowledge, and innate creativity for…
- An anarchist society, far from being a remote ideal, has become a precondition for the practice of ecological principles.
- The ecological principle of unity in diversity grades into a richly mediated social principle; hence my use of the term social ecology.
- To speak of ‘limits to growth’ under a capitalistic market economy is as meaningless as to speak of limits of warfare under a warrior society.…
- As long as hierarchy persists, as long as domination organises humanity around a system of elites, the project of dominating nature will continue to exist…
More Ecological Quotes
- The shortage of fresh water is the major ecological problem of this moment. — Mikhail Gorbachev
- The hatred of the youth culture for adult society is not a disinterested judgement but a terror-ridden refusal to be hooked into… — Midge Decter
- Is it too late to prevent us from self-destructing? No, for we have the capacity to design our own future, to take… — Jean-Michel Cousteau
- The ecological crisis is doing what no other crisis in history has ever done - challenging us to a realization of a… — Jean Houston
- Modern society will find no solution to the ecological problem unless it takes a serious look at its lifestyle. — Pope John Paul II
- Birds ... are sensitive indicators of the environment, a sort of "ecological litmus paper," ... The observation and recording of bird populations… — Roger Tory Peterson
- Faced with the widespread destruction of the environment, people everywhere are coming to understand that we cannot continue to use the goods… — Pope John Paul II
- We live in a cultural milieu ... The idea that culture is our ecological niche is still applicable. The impact and force… — Unknown Author
- You do not belong to you. You belong to the universe. The significance of you will remain forever obscure to you, but… — R. Buckminster Fuller
- . . . the upsurge of Spirit is the only plausible way to stop the ecological destruction of our planet. Even people… — Michael Lerner
- ... the ecological problem of our times demands a radical reevaluation of how we see the entire world; it demands a different… — Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I of Constantinople
- The ecological crisis shows the urgency of a solidarity which embraces time and space... A greater sense of intergenerational solidarity is urgently… — Pope Benedict XVI