Compromise Quote by David James Duncan

“....Environmentalists try to preserve these ecosystems through political action. Yet no law will succeed in preserving something that people know only from a distance…

— Richard and Jacob Rabkin

“The marketplace has many similarities to nature's rainforest and oceanic ecosystems. Left to their own devices, the marketplace and the earth's ecosystems are self-regulating.…

— Mary J. Ruwart

Ecology is often confused with environmentalism, while in fact, environmentalism often leaves out the fact that people, too, can be a legitimate part of…

— Frank Herbert

The recent upsurge of public concern over environmental questions reflects a belated recognition that man has been too cavalier in his relations with nature.…

— Richard M. Nixon

“Ecosystem services are things like crop pollination, carbon sequestration, climate regulation, water purification, air purification, nutrient dispersal, nutrient recycling, waste processing, flood control, pest…

— Peter H. Diamandis

Many environmental questions are in a deep way philosophical, despite our penchant for treating them as if they were only technological, economic, or whatever.

— Dale Jamieson

“We shall never understand the natural environment until we see it as a living organism. Today you can murder land for private profit. You…

— Paul Brooks

I am really sobered by what's happening to ecosystems around our planet and to the wildlife that is to be found there.

— Jeff Corwin

I would argue that practices that destroy ecosystems always destroy jobs.

— Bruce Babbitt

It is one thing to impose drastic measures and harsh economic penalties when an environmental problem is clear-cut and severe....

— Frederick Seitz

The thing the ecologically illiterate don't realize about an ecosystem is that it's a system. A system! A system maintains a certain fluid stability…

— Frank Herbert

The tragedy is that there is so much more incentive - money - to destroy the ecology than there is to preserve it.

— Paul Watson