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• I think buildings should imitate ecological systems.

  Ken Yeang

  Thinking, Architecture, Building

  "CNN" Interview, edition.cnn.com. July 20, 2007.

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• Capitalism can no more be 'persuaded' to limit growth than a human being can be 'persuaded' to stop breathing. Attempts to 'green' capitalism, to make it 'ecological', are doomed by the very nature of the system as a system of endless growth.

  Murray Bookchin

  Breathing, Growth, Green

  "Remaking Society". Book by Murray Bookchin, 1989.

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• The dialectical or ecological approach asserts that creating the world is involved in our every act. It is impossible for us to operate in our daily lives and not create the world that everyone must live in. What we desire arranges the genetic code in all of our major crops and livestock. We cannot avoid participating in the creation, and it is in agriculture, far and away our largest and most basic artifact, that human culture and the creation totally interpenetrate.

  Wes Jackson

  Creating, Agriculture, Desire

  Wes Jackson (2015). “Becoming Native to This Place”, p.22, Counterpoint

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• At the deepest level of ecological awareness you are talking about spiritual awareness. Spiritual awareness is an understanding of being imbedded in a larger whole, a cosmic whole, of belonging to the universe.

  Fritjof Capra

  Spiritual, Talking, Understanding

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• At this point in our global ecological crisis, the survival of humanity will require a fundamental shift in our attitude toward nature: from finding out how we can dominate and manipulate nature to how we can learn from her. In this brilliant and hopeful book, Jay Harman shows us how far the new field of Biomimicry has already progressed toward this goal. The Shark's Paintbrush makes for fascinating and joyful reading - much needed in these dark times.

  Fritjof Capra

  Attitude, Reading, Book

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• Until society can be reclaimed by an undivided humanity that will use its collective wisdom, cultural achievements, technological innovations, scientific knowledge, and innate creativity for its own benefit and for that of the natural world, all ecological problems will have their roots in social problems.

  Murray Bookchin

  Creativity, Roots, Achievement

  Janet Biehl, Murray Bookchin (1999). “The Murray Bookchin Reader”, p.53, Black Rose Books Ltd.

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• An anarchist society, far from being a remote ideal, has become a precondition for the practice of ecological principles.

  Murray Bookchin

  Practice, Principles, Anarchist

  Janet Biehl, Murray Bookchin (1999). “The Murray Bookchin Reader”, p.20, Black Rose Books Ltd.

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• The ecological principle of unity in diversity grades into a richly mediated social principle; hence my use of the term social ecology.

  Murray Bookchin

  Diversity, Unity, Principles

  Janet Biehl, Murray Bookchin (1999). “The Murray Bookchin Reader”, p.41, Black Rose Books Ltd.

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• To speak of ‘limits to growth’ under a capitalistic market economy is as meaningless as to speak of limits of warfare under a warrior society. The moral pieties, that are voiced today by many well-meaning environmentalists, are as naive as the moral pieties of multinationals are manipulative. Capitalism can no more be ‘persuaded’ to limit growth than a human being can be ‘persuaded’ to stop breathing. Attempts to ‘green’ capitalism, to make it ‘ecological’, are doomed by the very nature of the system as a system of endless growth.

  Murray Bookchin

  Nature, Warrior, Breathing

  "Remaking Society: Pathways to a Green Future". Book by Murray Bookchin, 1990.

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• The whole [scientific] process resembles biological evolution. A problem is like an ecological niche, and a theory is like a gene or a species which is being tested for viability in that niche.

  David Deutsch

  Niche, Evolution, Problem

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• Our present ecological crisis, the biggest single practical threat to our human existence in the middle to long term, has, religious people would say, a great deal to do with our failure to think of the world as existing in relation to the mystery of God, not just as a huge warehouse of stuff to be used for our convenience.

  Rowan Williams

  Religious, Thinking, Long

  Rowan Williams (2007). “Tokens of Trust: An Introduction to Christian Belief”, p.50, Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd

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• We see a world of abundance, not limits. In the midst of a great deal of talk about reducing the human ecological footprint, we offer a different vision. What if humans designed products and systems that celebrate an abundance of human creativity, culture, and productivity? That are so intelligent and safe, our species leaves an ecological footprint to delight in, not lament?

  William McDonough

  Creativity, Intelligent, Vision

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• In the global marketplace of the future the price of every product will tell the ecological truth.

  Kalle Lasn

  Marketplace, Products

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• We are close to a consensus that the Kyoto Protocol does huge economic, political, social and ecological damage to the Russian Federation. In addition, it certainly violates the rights and freedoms of Russian citizens, and well as the rights and freedoms of citizens in those countries which signed and ratified it.

  Andrey Illarionov

  Country, Rights, Kyoto Protocol

  "Q&A: Putin's Critical Adviser" by Yuri Zarakhovich, time.com, December 31, 2005.

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• The ecological crisis we face is so obvious that it becomes easy...to join the dots and see that everything is interconnected. This is the ecological thought. And the more we consider it, the more our world opens up." The ecological thought "...is a vast, sprawling mesh of interconnection without a definite center or edge. It is radical intimacy, coexistence with other beings, sentient and otherwise.

  Timothy Morton

  Our World, Earth, Faces

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• Freedom is the only style. That is why I never speak about beauty or beautiful products but "good products"... Nowadays, we have to face so many challenges,...so it is not really a priority to care for beauty. The only way for us is to focus on an ethic and ecological behaviour.

  Philippe Starck

  Beautiful, Focus, Priorities

  "Playing with Philippe Starck". Interview with Anna Battista, www.dazeddigital.com. May 20, 2010.

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• Subversive, ethical, ecological, political, humorous ... this is how I see my duty as a designer.

  Philippe Starck

  Humorous, Political, Designer

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• The origin of agriculture involved both human intentionality and a set of underlying ecological and evolutionary principles.

  Kent V. Flannery

  Food, Agriculture, Cooking

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• [My vision is] To make the world work for 100% of humanity in the shortest possible time through spontaneous cooperation without ecological offense or the disadvantage of anyone.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Humanity, Vision, World

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• That's the old ecological tale that explains humans' inability to fully appreciate global warming. To wit: if you drop a frog in a pan of hot water, it jumps out. If you drop it in a pan of cold water, then turn the heat up slowly, you can roast it to death.

  Clive Thompson

  Funny, Animal, Appreciate

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• Trees are right at the heart of all the necessary debates: ecological, social, economic, political, moral, religious.

  Colin Tudge

  Religious, Heart, Tree

  Colin Tudge (2006). “The Tree: A Natural History of What Trees Are, How They Live, and Why They Matter”, p.368, Broadway Books

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• Environmental scientists also show us clearly that from the environmental and ecological points of view that nuclear war is not preventable. The only way to get rid of this danger is to abolish all nuclear weapons

  Tadatoshi Akiba

  War, Views, Environmental

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• Throughout the world today there is a gowing awareness of the failings of the Western model of development and a corresponding desire to look for more human-scale, ecological ways of living.

  Helena Norberg-Hodge

  Desire, Looks, Development

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• (The animal rights movement) should be supported by all Christians. In an ecological universe, every created entity has intrinsic value because all are subjects as well as objects. As we cover more and more of the earth with our factories/ highways/ towns/parking lots, we annihilate more and more plants and animals.

  Charles Birch

  Christian, Animal, Rights

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• Heatstroke is an important and useful addition to the library on climate change, bringing insights from deep-time ecological research to help illuminate the dire forecasts of which we're already so aware.

  David Quammen

  Important, Library, Climate

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