Ecology Quotes

155 quotes by 135 authors

A true conservationist is a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers, but borrowed from his children. — John James Audubon
All nations are degrading and consuming their environment to a point beyond capacity. In the past 15 years in the U.S. we have added 1300… — Gaylord Nelson
Today, people are talking about many things: the danger of war and frequent clashes, water and air pollution, hunger, the increasing erosion of moral values,… — Fethullah Gulen
The time has come to link ecology to economic and human development. When you have seen one ant, one bird, one tree, you have not… — E. O. Wilson
Nature provides a free lunch, but only if we control our appetites. — William Ruckelshaus
We are seeing the birth of a new perspective of the world, where ecology and economics are two sides of the same coin. — Leif Johansson
The site I landed on feels much more isolated than it really is; it's almost magical. Within its limited radius, there was a whole range… — Martin Puryear
Over and over again, we must stress that a healthy ecology is the basis for a healthy economy. — Claudine Schneider
The beginning point at both conferences must be that everything is a woman's issue. That means racism in a woman's issue, just as is anti-Semitism,… — Charlotte Bunch
With laissez-faire and price atomic, Ecology's Uneconomic, But with another kind of logic Economy's Unecologic. — Kenneth E. Boulding
A massive campaign must be launched to restore a high-quality environment in North America and to de-develop the United States...De-development means bringing our economic system… — John Holdren
The climate change debate is basically not about science; it is about ideology. It is not about global temperature; it is about the concept of… — Vaclav Klaus
I think still it is very fine not to want children. There are far too many people in the world. It is my contribution to… — Helen Mirren
Economy without ecology means managing the human nature relationship without knowing the delicate balance between humankind and the natural world — Satish Kumar
The highest function of ecology is the understanding of consequences — Frank Herbert
Like a shadow that does not permit us to jump over it, but moves with us to maintain its proper distance, pollution is nature's answer… — William Irwin Thompson
Contrary to popular belief, we do not face a choice between economy and ecology, It is often said that protecting the environment would constrain or… — Kofi Annan
Everything is connected to everything else. Everything must go somewhere. Nature knows best. There is no such thing as a free lunch. If you don't… — Barry Commoner
We must set an example now and move environmentalism from being the philosophy of a passionate minority ... to a way of life that automatically… — Leonardo DiCaprio
Guns have metamorphosed into cameras in this earnest comedy, the ecology safari, because nature has ceased to be what it always had been - what… — Susan Sontag

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