Analogies Quote by Kenneth E. Boulding

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

Early ecologists soon realised that, since humans are organisms, ecology should include the study of the relationship between humans and the rest of the…

— Richard Heinberg

Reality, in its quantitative aspect, must be considered as a system of populations... The general study of the equilibria and dynamics of populations seems…

— Kenneth E. Boulding

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

“No settled family or community has ever called its home place an “environment.” None has ever called its feeling for its home place “biocentric”…

— Wendell Berry

...no matter how complex or affluent, human societies are nothing but subsystems of the biosphere, the Earth's thin veneer of life, which is ultimately…

— Vaclav Smil

“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

Since nature has the most sustainable ecosystem and since ultimately agriculture comes out of nature, our standard for a sustainable world should be nature's…

— Wes Jackson

“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

A society - any society - is defined as a set of mutual benefits and duties embodied most visibly in public institutions: public schools,…

— Robert Reich

The environment that we call society is created by past generations; we accept it, as it helps us to maintain our greed, possessiveness, illusion.

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

You could think of an ecosystem as a bunch of antagonistic arms races, almost: Everything that an animal depends upon for food is the…

— Steven Pinker