Ecology Quotes - Page 5

• The kingdom of God is the true ecology of the human soul.

  Dallas Willard

  Soul, Kingdoms, Kingdom Of God

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• How long can men thrive between walls of brick, walking on asphalt pavements, breathing the fumes of coal and of oil, growing, working, dying, with hardly a thought of wind, and sky, and fields of grain, seeing only machine-made beauty, the mineral-like quality of life?

  Charles Lindbergh

  Wall, Men, Wind

  "Aviation, Geography, and Race". Reader's Digest, pp. 64-67, November 1939.

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• I want to make it clear,if there is ever a conflict [between environmental quality and economic growth], I will go for beauty, clean air, water, and landscape.

  Jimmy Carter

  Air, Environmental Quality, Water

  The New York Times, September 19, 1976.

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• Wilderness is a place where the wild potential is fully expressed, a diversity of living and nonliving beings flourishing according to their own sorts of order. In ecology we speak of "wild systems." When an ecosystem is fully functioning, all the members are present at the assembly. To speak of wilderness is to speak of wholeness. Human beings came out of that wholeness, and to consider the possibility of reactivating membership in the Assembly of All Beings is in no way regressive.

  Gary Snyder

  Journey, Order, Ecosystems

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• Relationships are the core message of ecology.

  Frances Moore Lappé

  Messages, Core

  Interview with Karen Brown, blog.etsy.com. July 23, 2013.

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• The bulldozer and not the atomic bomb may turn out to be the most destructive invention of the 20th century.

  Philip Shabecoff

  Nature, Environmental, Bombs

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• A forest ecology is a delicate one. If the forest perishes, its fauna may go with it. The Athshean word for world is also the word for forest.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  May, Forests, World

  Ursula K. Le Guin (2010). “The Word for World is Forest”, p.86, Macmillan

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• Ecological differentiation is the necessary condition for coexistence.

  Garrett Hardin

  Differentiation, Ecological, Conditions

  Garrett James Hardin (1961). “Biology, its principles and implications”

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• Respect the delicate ecology of your delusions.

  Tony Kushner

  Delusion, Delicate

  Tony Kushner (2013). “Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes: Revised and Complete Edition”, p.107, Theatre Communications Group

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• I think part of the reason that I have been successful, though, despite maybe not always fitting my message into the pre-packaged formulas, is there is this whole other media ecology out there of the Internet and Instagram and memes and talk shows and comedy, and I'm pretty good at that.

  Barack Obama

  Successful, Thinking, Media

  Source: www.vanityfair.com

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• Wildlife is something which man cannot construct. Once it is gone, it is gone forever. Man can rebuild a pyramid, but he can't rebuild ecology, or a giraffe.

  Joy Adamson

  Nature, Men, Pyramids

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• Economy without ecology means managing the human nature relationship without knowing the delicate balance between humankind and the natural world

  Satish Kumar

  Nature, Mean, Knowing

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• The first law of ecology is that everything is related to everything else.---->I dont believe in environmentalism as the solution to anything. What I believe is that environmentalism illuminates the things that need to be done to solve all of the problems together.

  Barry Commoner

  Believe, Law, Together

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• Chaga is significant in ethnomycology, forest ecology, and increasingly in pharmacognosy. Its long-term human use and cultural eastern European and Russian acceptance should awaken serious researchers to its potential as a reservoir of new medicines, and as a powerful preventive ally for protecting DNA.

  Paul Stamets

  Powerful, Acceptance, Medicine

  "Chaga, the Clinker Fungus: This Mushroom Looks Scary But Can Benefit Health" by Paul Stamets, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 25, 2012.

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• If we do not permit the earth to produce beauty and joy, it will in the end not produce food, either.

  Joseph Wood Krutch

  Nature, Joy, Cooking

  Joseph Wood Krutch (1969). “The Best Nature Writing of Joseph Wood Krutch”

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• There is an increasing sense of what can be called legal pollution.

  Thomas Ehrlich

  Pollution, Water Pollution, Noise Pollution

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• The time has come to link ecology to economic and human development. When you have seen one ant, one bird, one tree, you have not seen them all. What is happening to the rain forests of Madagascar and Brazil will affect us all.

  E. O. Wilson

  Rain, Knowledge, Science

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• I am a profound pessimist both about life and about human relations and about politics and ecology. Humans are inadequate and stupid creatures who sooner or later make a mess, and those who are trying to do good do a lot more damage than those who are muddling along.

  A. S. Byatt

  Stupid, Profound, Trying

  FaceBook post by A.S. Byatt from Aug 31, 2011

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• All I ask is that we compare human consciousness with spirochete ecology.

  Lynn Margulis

  Consciousness, Compare, Humans

  "Attack of the Microbiologists" by Elizabeth Royte, www.nytimes.com. 1996.

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• From literature to ecology, from the escape velocity of galaxies to the greenhouse effect, from garbage disposal methods to traffic jams, everything is discussed in our world. But the democratic system, as if it were a given fact, untouchable by nature until the end of time, we don't discuss that.

  Jose Saramago

  Garbage Disposal, Our World, Jam

  Jose Saramago's intervention in the World Social Forum in Porto Alegre, February 1992.

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• The extinction rate is so huge now, we're to the stage where we've got to set up recombinant ecologies. There are no longer enough species left, anywhere, to hold the system together.

  Bill Mollison

  Together, Extinction, Enough

  "Permaculture: Design For Living". Interview with Alan AtKisson, www.context.org. 1991.

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• Every creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and pine trees, and he who understands it aright will rather preserve its life than destroy it.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Inspirational, Life, Insperational

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “The Maine Woods: The Writings of Henry David Thoreau, Volume III (of 20)”, p.71, Trajectory Inc

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• On Earth Day I made a commitment to reduce our emissions of greenhouse gases to 1990 levels by the year 2000. And I asked for a blueprint on how to achieve this goal. In concert with all other nations, we simply must halt global warming. It is a threat to our health, to our ecology, and to our economy. I know that the precise magnitude and patterns of climate change cannot be fully predicted. But global warming clearly is a growing, long-term threat with profound consequences. And make no mistake about it, it will take decades to reverse.

  William J. Clinton

  Mistake, Commitment, Years

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• Financial institutions have been merging into a smaller number of very large banks. Almost all banks are interrelated. So the financial ecology is swelling into gigantic, incestuous, bureaucratic banks-when one fails, they all fall. We have moved from a diversified ecology of small banks, with varied lending policies, to a more homogeneous framework of firms that all resemble one another. True, we now have fewer failures, but when they occur... I shiver at the thought.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Fall, Numbers, Financial

  "The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable". Book by Nassim Nicholas Taleb, 2007.

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• Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.

  Henrik Tikkanen

  Time, Future, Kids

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