Ecology Quotes - Page 10

• Acknowledging the physical realities of our planet does not mean a dismal future of endless sacrifice. In fact, acknowledging these realities is the first step in dealing with them. We can meet the resource problems of the world - water, food, minerals, farmlands, forests, overpopulation, pollution - if we tackle them with courage and foresight.

  Jimmy Carter

  Future, Mean, Sacrifice

  United States. President (1977-1981 : Carter), Jimmy Carter, United States. Office of the Federal Register (1982). “Jimmy Carter”

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• The fate of the living planet is the most important issue facing mankind.

  Gaylord Nelson

  Life, Nature, Fate

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• I feel more confident than ever that the power to save the planet rests with the individual consumer.

  Denis Hayes

  Environmental, Economy, Individual

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• You go into a community and they will vote 80 percent to 20 percent in favor of a tougher Clean Air Act, but if you ask them to devote 20 minutes a year to having their car emissions inspected, they will vote 80 to 20 against it. We are a long way in this country from taking individual responsibility for the environmental problem.

  William Ruckelshaus

  Country, Responsibility, Air

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• We are seeing the birth of a new perspective of the world, where ecology and economics are two sides of the same coin.

  Leif Johansson

  Two Sides, Perspective, Society

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• The two most abundant forms of power on earth are solar and wind, and they're getting cheaper and cheaper.

  Ed Begley, Jr.

  Wind, Two, Energy

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• The use of plant oil as fuel may seem insignificant today. But such products can in time become just as important as kerosene and these coal-tar-products of today.

  Rudolf Diesel

  Oil, Important, Biofuels

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• It's very important that we expand our use of clean energy and make a long-term commitment to it. Biodiesel and ethanol are better for the environment and for the air we breathe. The use of biodiesel is a positive step toward minimizing pollutive emissions and greenhouse gases. By focusing on school buses, we can affect the health and wellbeing of the people most susceptible to that pollution - our children - today.

  Julia Roberts

  Children, School, Commitment

  "(PRN) Julia Roberts Joins Earth Biofuels, Inc. as Spokesperson and Advisory Board Member". www.chron.com. July 18, 2006.

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• I'd put my money on the sun and solar energy. What a source of power! I hope we don't have to wait until oil and coal run out before we tackle that.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Running, Nature, Hydrogen Fuel

  "Uncommon Friends : Life with Thomas Edison, Henry Ford, Harvey Firestone, Alexis Carrel & Charles Lindbergh". Book by James Newton, 1987.

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• Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end by destroying the earth.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Nature, Men, Society

  Albert Schweitzer (1984). “The Words of Albert Schweitzer”

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• What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?

  Henry David Thoreau

  Love, Inspiring, Peace

  Henry David Thoreau, Joseph O. Valentine, Thoreau Society (2001). “Thoreau on Land: Nature's Canvas”, p.79, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• To find the universal elements enough; to find the air and the water exhilarating; to be refreshed by a morning walk or an evening saunter... to be thrilled by the stars at night; to be elated over a bird's nest or a wildflower in spring - these are some of the rewards of the simple life.

  John Burroughs

  Inspirational, Gratitude, Morning

  John Burroughs, Charlotte Zoë Walker (2001). “The Art of Seeing Things: Essays”, p.242, Syracuse University Press

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• Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them.

  Bill Vaughan

  Fun, Home, Names

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  Oh Beautiful for smoggy skies, insecticided grain,
  For strip-mined mountain's majesty above the asphalt plain.
  America, America, man sheds his waste on thee,
  And hides the pines with billboard signs, from sea to oily sea.

  George Carlin

  Beautiful, Song, Nature

  "Class Clown". Comedy album by George Carlin, 1972.

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• The natural world is the larger sacred community to which we belong. To be alienated from this community is to become destitute in all that makes us human. To damage this community is to diminish our own existence.

  Thomas Berry

  Community, Damage, World

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• No one species shall make the life of the world its own.' … That's one expression of the law. Here's another: 'The world was not made for any one species.

  Daniel Quinn

  Expression, Law, World

  Daniel Quinn (2009). “Ishmael: A Novel”, p.145, Bantam

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• Considering that we live in an era of evolutionary everything---evolutionary biology, evolutionary medicine, evolutionary ecology, evolutionary psychology, evolutionary economics, evolutionary computing---it was surprising how rarely people thought in evolutionary terms. It was a human blind spot. We look at the world around us as a snapshot when it was really a movie, constantly changing.

  Michael Crichton

  Blind Spots, Medicine, People

  Michael Crichton (2002). “Prey”

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• It is so hard for an evolutionary biologist to write about extinction caused by human stupidity. Let me then float an unconventional plea, the inverse of the usual argument. The extinction of Partula is unfair to Partula. That is the conventional argument, and I do not challenge its primacy. But we need a humanistic ecology as well, both for the practical reason that people will always touch people more than snails do or can, and for the moral reason that humans are legitimately the measure of all ethical questions for these are our issues, not nature's.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Writing, Issues, Ethical Questions

  "Eight Little Piggies: Reflections in Natural History". Book by Stephen Jay Gould. "Unenchanted Evening", p. 39, 1993.

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• In the Germany of the l920s, the Weimar Republic, both orga­nismic biology and Gestalt psychology were part of a larger intellectual trend that saw itself as a protest movement against the increasing fragmentation and alienation of human nature. The entire Weimar culture was characterized by an antimechanistic outlook, a "hunger for wholeness". Organismic biology, Gestalt psychology, ecology, and, later on, general systems theory all grew out of this holistic zeitgeist.

  Fritjof Capra

  Psychology, Intellectual, Culture

  "The Web of Life". Book by Fritjof Capra, 1996.

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• After all, this is a world of rock and water and air. It is elemental. It is not ours.

  Janet Kauffman

  Rocks, Air, Water

  Janet Kauffman (2008). “Trespassing: Dirt Stories and Field Notes”, p.108, Wayne State University Press

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• Through luminous and erudite readings of the texts, Hasana Sharp shows us how profound and radical is Spinoza's conception of nature and his claim that humans always remain part of nature, acting solely according to the same rules. She demonstrates the political consequences of adopting this perspective through a provocative intervention in contemporary feminist theory, while along the way opening promising avenues for future work in a variety of other fields, such as animal studies and ecology. This is a challenging and important book.

  Michael Hardt

  Book, Reading, Animal

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• Starting from the very reasonable, but unfortunately revolutionary concept that social practices which threaten the continuation of life on Earth must be changed, we need a theory of revolutionary ecology that will encompass social and biological issues, class struggle, and a recognition of the role of global corporate capitalism in the oppression of peoples and the destruction of nature.

  Judi Bari

  Struggle, Practice, Class

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• In New England they once thought blackbirds useless, and mischievous to the corn. They made efforts to destroy them. The consequence was, the blackbirds were diminished; but a kind of worm, which devoured their grass, and which the blackbirds used to feed on, increased prodigiously; then, finding their loss in grass much greater than their saving in corn, they wished again for their blackbirds.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Loss, Effort, Useless

  Benjamin Franklin, Walter Isaacson (2003). “A Benjamin Franklin Reader”, p.156, Simon and Schuster

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• Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another.

  Juvenal

  Wisdom, Nature, Earth Day

  Juvenal (1940). “Juvenal and Persius”

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• Food is about agriculture, about ecology, about man's relationship with nature, about the climate, about nation-building, cultural struggles, friends and enemies, alliances, wars, religion. It is about memory and tradition and, at times, even about sex.

  Mark Kurlansky

  Sex, Memories, War

  Mark Kurlansky (2013). “Choice Cuts”, p.10, Random House

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