Ecology Quote by Garrett Hardin Download Open image “Ecology is the overall science of which economics is a minor speciality.” — Garrett Hardin ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.0 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Ecology Economics Environment Minors Science
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 household or domain. Ecology is the study of home, while economics is its management. Ecologists try to define the conditions and principles that enable a species to survive and flourish. Yet in elevating the economy… — David Suzuki Copy Share
The way I think of it, economics and ecology occupy two intellectual silos, isolated from each other. Even when they do take each other… — Charles C. Mann Copy Share Image
“Eco” comes from the Greek word oikos, meaning home. Ecology is the study of home, while economics is the management of home. Ecologists attempt to define the conditions and principles that govern life’s ability to flourish through time and change. Societies and our constructs, like economics, must adapt to those fundamentals defined by ecology. The challenge today is to put… — David Suzuki Copy Share
You would have thought that our first priority would be to ask what the ecologists are finding out, because we have to live within… — David Suzuki Copy Share Image
Early ecologists soon realised that, since humans are organisms, ecology should include the study of the relationship between humans and the rest of the biosphere. ... We don't often tend to think about the social sciences (history, economics and politics) as subcategories of ecology. But since people are organisms, it is apparent that we must first understand the principles of… — Richard Heinberg Copy Share
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 Copy Share Image
Economics is the science which studies human behaviour as a relationship between ends and scarce means which have alternative uses. — Lionel Charles Robbins Copy Share Image
Over and over again, we must stress that a healthy ecology is the basis for a healthy economy. — Claudine Schneider Copy Share Image
Economics seeks to be a science. Science is supposed to be objective and it is difficult to be scientific when the subject matter, the… — George Soros Copy Share Image
Nature's economy shall be the base for our own, for it is immutable, but ours is secondary. An economist without knowledge of nature is… — Carl Linnaeus Copy Share Image
The highest function of ecology is the understanding of consequences — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
Economy without ecology means managing the human nature relationship without knowing the delicate balance between humankind and the natural world — Satish Kumar Copy Share Image
Ecological differentiation is the necessary condition for coexistence. — Garrett Hardin Copy Share Image
Fundamentalists are panicked by the apparent disintegration of the family, the disappearance of certainty and the decay of morality. Fear leads them to ask,… — Garrett Hardin Copy Share Image
Indeed, our particular concept of private property, which deters us from exhausting the positive resources of the earth, favors pollution. — Garrett Hardin Copy Share Image
“Individualism is cherished because it produces freedom, but the gift is conditional.” — Garrett Hardin Copy Share Image
But it is no good using the tongs of reason to pull the Fundamentalists' chestnuts out of the fire of contradiction. Their real troubles… — Garrett Hardin Copy Share Image
To say that we mutually agree to coercion is not to say that we are required to enjoy it, or even to pretend we… — Garrett Hardin Copy Share Image
The god who is reputed to have created fleas to keep dogs from moping over their situation must also have created fundamentalists to keep… — Garrett Hardin Copy Share Image
It takes five years for a willing person's mind to change. Have patience with yourself and others when treading in an area protected by… — Garrett Hardin Copy Share Image
Economists (and others) who are satisfied with nature-free equations develop a dangerous hubris about the potency of our species — Garrett Hardin Copy Share Image
The morality of an act is a function of the state of the system at the time it is performed. — Garrett Hardin Copy Share Image
Value is a relative concept: the value of each action is determined by comparing it with other possible actions. — Garrett Hardin Copy Share Image
Biochemists and biologists who adhere blindly to the Darwinism theory search for results that will be in agreement with their theories and consequently orient… — Pierre-Paul Grasse Copy Share Image
Ecological differentiation is the necessary condition for coexistence. — Garrett Hardin Copy Share Image
The thing that bothers me the most is the recklessness and greed of the local ranchers, who run too many cattle back here, choking… — Merle Haggard Copy Share Image
“It was not enough that food aplenty was within Man’s grasp: he wanted more. It was not enough that prey surrendered themselves to Man… — David Bowles Copy Share Image
The intersection of spiritual, dark music and radical ecology is quite natural. — Kristoffer Rygg Copy Share Image
Acoustic ecology is the study of information systems: the shared acoustic environment and how species send and receive messages in this shared acoustic environment.… — Gordon Hempton Copy Share Image
Starting from the very reasonable, but unfortunately revolutionary concept that social practices which threaten the continuation of life on Earth must be changed, we… — Judi Bari Copy Share Image
We often speak of "deep ecology," but this is also Deep Eco-Psychology: how the environment can remind us of, and help mend, mental and… — Michael Tobias Copy Share Image
Capitalism’s grow-or-die imperative stands radically at odds with ecology’s imperative of interdependence and limit. The two imperatives can no longer coexist with each other;… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
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… — Daisaku Ikeda Copy Share Image
“Listen, O lord of the meeting rivers, things standing shall fall, but the moving ever shall stay.” — Basava Copy Share Image
We must all move shoulder to shoulder in a unified front to show this administration that the true majority of people are willing to… — Leonardo DiCaprio Copy Share Image
