Ecology Quote by Stephen Jay Gould Download Open image “Nature is what she is - amoral and persistent.” — Stephen Jay Gould ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.5 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Ecology Inspirational Love Nature Persistent
Sometimes nature guards her secrets with the unbreakable grip of physical law. Sometimes the true nature of reality beckons from just beyond the horizon. — Brian Greene Copy Share Image
Nature, even when she is scant and thin outwardly, satisfies us still by the assurance of a certain generosity at the roots. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Nothing in the many processes of Nature, whether she deals with men or with things, comes by chance or accident or is really at… — Sri Aurobindo Copy Share Image
Nature must be viewed humanly to be viewed at all; that is, her scenes must be associated with humane affections, such as are associated… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Nature is less partial than she appears, and all situations in life have their compensations along with them. — James Anthony Froude Copy Share Image
If we see nature as pausing, immediately all mortifies and decays; but seen as progressing, she is beautiful. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The true beauty of nature is her amplitude; she exists neither for nor because of us, and possesses a staying power that all our… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
I strongly reject any conceptual scheme that places our options on a line, and holds that the only alternative to a pair of extreme… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
History employs evolution to structure biological events in time. — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
In his anti-Darwinian book... (and eponymously named The Neck of the Giraffe ), Francis Hitching tells the story... "The need to survive by reaching… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
... many folks take them seriously because they just 'know' that evolution can never be seen in the immediate here and now. In fact,… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Charles Darwin viewed the fossil record more as an embarrassment than as an aid to his theory ... — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Zoocentrism is the primary fallacy of human sociobiology, for this view of human behavior rests on the argument that if the actions of "lower"… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
The world, unfortunately, rarely matches our hopes and consistently refuses to behave in a reasonable manner. — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
The true beauty of nature is her amplitude; she exists neither for nor because of us, and possesses a staying power that all our… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
With copious evidence ranging from Plato's haughtiness to Beethoven's tirades, we may conclude that the most brilliant people of history tend to be a… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
When scientists need to explain difficult points of theory, illustration by hypothetical example - rather than by total abstraction - works well (perhaps indispensably)… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
The truly awesome intellectuals in our history have not merely made discoveries; they have woven variegated, but firm, tapestries of comprehensive coverage. The tapestries… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
I believe that we can still have a genre of scientific books suitable for and accessible alike to professionals and interested laypeople. The concepts… — Stephen Jay Gould 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
