Dirty Quote by Frank Herbert

We need to renegotiate our contract with nature. Ecology is a unifying force that can diminish intolerance and expand our empathy towards others—both human…

— Gregory Colbert

As a word, ecology has been so debased by recent political usage that many people employ it to identify anything good that happens far…

— Stephen Jay Gould

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…

— Michael Dowd

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

“Thinking ecologically does not mean reverting to a natural state... Such a state does not exist and never has. In [this] view, ecology should…

— Arie Altena

“Nature" doesn't really have intentions, per se. Nature is a drunk waking up from a weekend bender, ambling through a messy kitchen in a…

— Pat Connid

Ecology should be object lessons that the world sees, that explains in a visceral, physical way, the attributes of God.

— Joel Salatin

.. the word ecology, coined by the German biologist and philosopher Ernst Haeckel (initially as oecology) in 1866. derives from the Greek oikos, "referring…

— Warwick Fox

“Man aspires to govern nature, but the more one studies ecology, the more absurd it seems to speak of any one feature of an…

— Alan Wilson Watts

Ecosystems are holy. The word "environmental" is a deadly compromise itself. It's a policy word that lives only in the head, and barely there.

— David James Duncan

“My passion for human ecology was not a drive for closure—but rather the joy of endless openings and newfound connections. There is no final…

— Richard J. Borden

“One has to understand the dynamics of the species and habitat in question, and most armchair ethicists haven’t the faintest clue.”

— John Durant