Best Ecology Quotes
155 Ecology quotes by 129 unique authors
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The basic pattern of life is a network. Whenever you see life, you see networks. The whole planet, what we can term 'Gaia' is a…
— Fritjof Capra
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We don't know nearly enough about the complexities of Nature. If we think we can eliminate natural ecosystems and substitute prosthetic devices, i.e. clean air…
— E. O. Wilson
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Metaphysics is universal and is exclusively concerned with primary substance. ... And here we will have the science to study that which is, both in…
— Aristotle
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If religion is the establishing of a relationship between man and the universe, then morality is the explanation of those activities that automatically result when…
— Leo Tolstoy
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Although I am fully convinced of the truth of Evolution, I by no means expect to convince experienced naturalists. But I look with confidence to…
— Charles Darwin
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Reality cannot be found except in One single source, because of the interconnection of all things with one another.
— Gottfried Leibniz
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.. the word ecology, coined by the German biologist and philosopher Ernst Haeckel (initially as oecology) in 1866. derives from the Greek oikos, "referring originally…
— Unknown Author
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Metaphysics of Evolution: What is Matter & Life? 'Recent discoveries from Russia confirm that DNA / Genes are resonant structures which are subtly interconnected to…
— Unknown Author
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Hell is Truth Seen Too Late.
— Thomas Hobbes
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The popes have spoken of human ecology, closely linked to environmental ecology. We are living in a time of crisis: we see this in the…
— Pope Francis
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For those who want to understand the issues of the environmental crisis, Encounters with the Archdruid is a superb book. McPhee reveals more nuances of…
— Stewart Udall
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The first law of ecology is that everything is related to everything else.---->I dont believe in environmentalism as the solution to anything. What I believe…
— Barry Commoner
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When human beings lose their connection to nature, to heaven and earth, then they do not know how to nurture their environmect or how to…
— Chogyam Trungpa
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I believe our only hope for the future is to adopt a new conception of human ecology, one in which we start to reconstitute our…
— Ken Robinson
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Shallow ecology is anthropocentric, or human-centred. It views humans as above or outside nature, as the source of all value, and ascribes only instrumental, or…
— Fritjof Capra
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The ecological principle of unity in diversity grades into a richly mediated social principle; hence my use of the term social ecology.
— Murray Bookchin
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By ecology we understand the total science of the connections of the organism to the surrounding external world.
— Ernst Haeckel
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A large-scale wind, water and solar energy system can reliably supply the world’s needs, significantly benefiting climate, air quality, water quality, ecology and energy security…
— Mark Z. Jacobson
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Economists don't seem to have noticed that the economy sits entirely within the ecology.
— Carl Safina
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I've always liked trees. And then, growing up, I took an interest in ecology, hedges being destroyed, the landscape being turned into prairies.
— Clive Anderson
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My Prime Minister regards the economy as our highest priority and forgets that economics and ecology are derived from the same Greek word, oikos, meaning…
— David Suzuki
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Permaculture creates a cultivated ecology, which is designed to produce more human and animal food than is generally found in nature.
— Bill Mollison
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Through luminous and erudite readings of the texts, Hasana Sharp shows us how profound and radical is Spinoza's conception of nature and his claim that…
— Michael Hardt
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Starting from the very reasonable, but unfortunately revolutionary concept that social practices which threaten the continuation of life on Earth must be changed, we need…
— Judi Bari
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The careful scholarship of the dedicated amateur mycophile R. Gordon Wasson reads like an exciting scientific detective story. Moreover, his willingness to pursue the quest…
— Weston La Barre
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