Carbon Quote by Joseph Needham

The highest function of ecology is the understanding of consequences

— Frank Herbert

If we recognise that every ecosystem can also be viewed as a food web, we can think of it as a circular, interlacing nexus…

— Murray Bookchin

Relationships are the core message of ecology.

— Frances Moore Lappé

We are reducing the number of relationships. We are slowly but surely consuming the massive reserves of energy that have been accumulating and are…

— Gunter Pauli

By ecology we understand the total science of the connections of the organism to the surrounding external world.

— Ernst Haeckel

Finding mechanisms for putting carbon back into landscapes enhances biodiversity. More biodiverse ecosystems store more carbon, more securely and are more resilient to the…

— Will Steffen

Now we see evolutionary trends in a variety of areas ranging from atomic and molecular physics through fluid mechanics, chemistry and biology to large…

— Ilya Prigogine

Ecology, like genetics, is not about equilibrium states. It is about change, change and change. Nothing stays the same forever.

— Matt Ridley

Biodiversity starts in the distant past and it points toward the future.

— Frans Lanting

We are a naturally hierarchical species.

— Octavia E. Butler

Only within the 20th Century has biological thought been focused on ecology, or the relation of the living creature to its environment. Awareness of…

— Rachel Carson

We have decisively changed the carbon cycle, the nitrogen cycle, and the rate of extinction.

— Rob Nixon