Best Ecology Words
155 Ecology quotes by 129 unique authors
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Only within the 20th Century has biological thought been focused on ecology, or the relation of the living creature to its environment. Awareness of ecological…
— Rachel Carson
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The ecology of the valley was complex beyond our understanding, and it began to die as we went on manipulating it in ever more frantic…
— William Kittredge
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Ecology is the new theology; big history is the new Genesis. Those who fail to understand that evidence is modern-day scripture, and that the world…
— Michael Dowd
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I came to see that man finds meaning in his existence only through the active demonstration of his human self, a cosmos comprising the entire…
— Pramoedya Ananta Toer
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Every year the literary press praises dozens if not hundreds of novels to the skies, asserting explicitly or implicitly that these books will probably not…
— Lev Grossman
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For the first half of geological time our ancestors were bacteria. Most creatures still are bacteria, and each one of our trillions of cells is…
— Richard Dawkins
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The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your…
— Albert Ellis
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The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Continuity is at the heart of conservatism: ecology serves that heart.
— Garrett Hardin
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However, I think the major opposition to ecology has deeper roots than mere economics; ecology threatens widely held values so fundamental that they must be…
— Garrett Hardin
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Unfortunately, our affluent society has also been an effluent society.
— Hubert H. Humphrey
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We won't have a society if we destroy the environment.
— Margaret Mead
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There's so much pollution in the air now that if it weren't for our lungs there'd be no place to put it all.
— Robert Orben
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A nation that destroys its soils destroys itself. Forests are the lungs of our land, purifying the air and giving fresh strength to our people.
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
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In an ecology of love, people can relate in trust and face the future without fear. They do not need to play it safe. They…
— Jonathan Sacks
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Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end by destroying the earth.
— Albert Schweitzer
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Respect the delicate ecology of your delusions.
— Tony Kushner
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We never know the worth of water till the well is dry.
— Thomas Fuller
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The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us, the less taste we shall have for…
— Rachel Carson
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On a grander scale, when a society segregates itself, the consequences affect the economy, the emotions, and the ecology. That's one reason why it's easy…
— Joel Salatin
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A sense of being part of the great all-inclusive life prompts us to reflect on our own place and on how we ought to live.…
— Daisaku Ikeda
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When one of a culture's guiding credos is that "all men are created equal," any person who, say, becomes an expert on, say, nuclear weapons…
— Sarah Vowell
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Nature is not a place to visit. It is home.
— Gary Snyder
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If gold has been prized because it is the most inert element, changeless and incorruptible, water is prized for the opposite reason -- its fluidity,…
— Rebecca Solnit
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Considering that we live in an era of evolutionary everything---evolutionary biology, evolutionary medicine, evolutionary ecology, evolutionary psychology, evolutionary economics, evolutionary computing---it was surprising how rarely…
— Michael Crichton
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