Aspect Quote by Kenneth E. Boulding

In calling society an ecological system we are not merely using an analogy; society is an example of the general concept of an "ecosystem"…

— Kenneth E. Boulding

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

— Matt Ridley

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

The world of organisms, of animals and plants, is built up of individuals. I like to think, then, of natural history as the study…

— Marston Bates

.. 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

I also assume that they are not simply the physical properties of things as now conceived by physical science. Instead, they are ecological, in…

— James J. Gibson

Ecology is the overall science of which economics is a minor speciality.

— Garrett Hardin

[In science any model depends on a pre-chosen taxonomy] a set of classifications into which we divide the enormous complexity of the real world...…

— Kenneth E. Boulding

“No one is an outside observer of nature, We're defined by our environment and our interaction with that environment -- by our ecology. And…

— Beau Lotto

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

Today the network of relationships linking the human race to itself and to the rest of the biosphere is so complex that all aspects…

— Murray Gell-Mann

The whole [scientific] process resembles biological evolution. A problem is like an ecological niche, and a theory is like a gene or a species…

— David Deutsch