Boundaries Quote by Nadine Gordimer

“biodiversity actually begins in the soil.”

— Judith D. Schwartz

“While we still have much to learn about the complex ecosystem in our gut, over the past decade themes have emerged regarding”

— Kristina Campbell

“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

“The ecological crisis we face is so obvious that it becomes easy -- for some, strangely or frighteningly easy -- to join the dots…

— Timothy Morton

“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

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

“We can get a sense of it, to be sure, though it will upgrade our ideas of "real" and "thing" to boot. Ecology shows…

— Timothy Morton

“Rather than trying to master nature we should start with the basics of trying to understand nature, cooperate with nature.”

— Bryant McGill

“Biocentrism, like everything else, has its logical limits, even as it offers far-and-away the best explanation for why things are as they are. As…

— Robert P. Lanza

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

— John Durant

“Unfortunately, the vocabulary, which was previously so rich in describing the nuances of nature, has severely diminished over the past decades. As the words…

— Morten A. Strøksnes

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