Quotes about Ecology

The first law of ecology is that everything is related to everything else. Votes: 6

Continuity is at the heart of conservatism: ecology serves that heart. Votes: 4

With laissez-faire and price atomic, Ecology's Uneconomic, But with another kind of logic Economy's Unecologic. Votes: 4

Ecology should be object lessons that the world sees, that explains in a visceral, physical way, the attributes of God. Votes: 4

Probably the most visible example of unintended consequences, is what happens every time humans try to change the natural ecology of a place. Votes: 4

However, I think the major opposition to ecology has deeper roots than mere economics; ecology threatens widely held values so fundamental that they must be called religious. Votes: 4

I have a certain pool of subject matter that I like to write about, things that interest me: politics, religion, ecology, and relationships between men and women. And that's usually what I focus on. Votes: 4

The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny. Votes: 4

If, in our haste to 'progress,' the economics of ecology are disregarded by citizens and policy makers alike, the result will be an ugly America. We cannot afford an America where expedience tramples upon esthetics and development decisions are made with an eye only on the present. Votes: 4

Ecology is boring for the same reason that destruction is fun. Votes: 3

Ecology and spirituality are fundamentally connected, because deep ecological awareness, ultimately, is spiritual awareness. Votes: 3

Ecology should be object lessons that the world sees, that explains in a visceral, physical way, the attributes of God." Votes: 3

Ecology, like genetics, is not about equilibrium states. It is about change, change and change. Nothing stays the same forever. Votes: 3

Ecology is often confused with environmentalism, while in fact, environmentalism often leaves out the fact that people, too, can be a legitimate part of an ecosystem. Votes: 3

We need to renegotiate our contract with nature. Ecology is a unifying force that can diminish intolerance and expand our empathy towards others"”both human and animal. Votes: 3

Ecology is a dirty seven-letter word to many people. They are like heavy sleepers refusing to be aroused. "Leave me alone! It's not time to get up yet! Votes: 3

In The Ecology of Freedom, my critique of what is called civilization and industrial society is massive, and my attack upon [Karl] Marx's commitment to it as a necessary stage in human progress and the domination of nature is very sharp. Votes: 3

Ecology is the new theology; big history is the new Genesis. Those who fail to understand that evidence is modern-day scripture, and that the world we live in is an honorable world, betray God and humanity in the most egregious of ways. Votes: 3

I hope that in its richness, as well as in its incompleteness, Gyn/Ecology will continue to be a Labrys enabling women to learn from our mistakes and our successes, and cast our Lives as far as we can go, Now, in the Be-Dazzling Nineties. Votes: 3

Archeology and ecology can go hand in hand. Votes: 2

The highest function of ecology is the understanding of consequences Votes: 2

When you pursue great flavor, you also pursue great ecology. Votes: 2

Nature is not a place to visit. It is home. Votes: 2

I believe we should celebrate new possibilities of combining the printed codex with electronic technology... The information ecology is getting richer, not thinner. Votes: 2

The tragedy is that there is so much more incentive - money - to destroy the ecology than there is to preserve it. Votes: 2

That land is a community is the basic concept of ecology, but that land is to be loved and respected is an extension of ethics. Votes: 2

It's a morbid observation, but if every one on earth just stopped breathing for an hour, the greenhouse effect would no longer be a problem. Votes: 2

A nation that destroys its soils destroys itself. Forests are the lungs of our land, purifying the air and giving fresh strength to our people. Votes: 2

I do see a lot of the hard end of ecology, and my feeling is that we live on a super-exciting planet but a super-fragile one. Votes: 2

The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us, the less taste we shall have for destruction. Votes: 2

If a product is more expensive than another one and more sustainable in ecology, consumers will not buy it. We're in a very sharp competitive market. Votes: 2

We, the generation that faces the next century, can add the solemn injunction ''If we don't do the impossible, we shall be faced with the unthinkable. Votes: 2

The site I landed on feels much more isolated than it really is; it's almost magical. Within its limited radius, there was a whole range of the local ecology. Votes: 2

Our land-healing ministry really is about cultivating relationships: between the people, the loving stewards, and the ecology of a place, what I call the environmental umbilical that we're nurturing here. Votes: 2

People are beginning to realize that we need to live in accordance with the law of ecology, the law of finite resources, and if we don't, we're going to go extinct. Votes: 2

In an ecology of love, people can relate in trust and face the future without fear. They do not need to play it safe. They can take uncertainty in their stride. Votes: 2

There should be more attention paid to scientific research in the ecology area, and I think that such attention to proper environmental concerns would make the public feel much better about it. Votes: 2

There should be more attention paid to scientific research in the ecology area, and I think that such attention to proper environmental concerns would make the public feel much better about it. Votes: 2

Well, I think I was always sort of reflecting where I was and my sense of surroundings and ecology, urban or country, or foreign, living in Europe, very affected by all of that. Votes: 2

Everything is connected to everything else. Everything must go somewhere. Nature knows best. There is no such thing as a free lunch. If you don't put something in the ecology, it's not there. Votes: 2

I had always been fascinated by the whole idea that Australia was this different ecology and that when rabbits and prickly pears and other things from Europe were introduced into Australia, they ran amok. Votes: 2

You would have thought that our first priority would be to ask what the ecologists are finding out, because we have to live within the conditions and principles they define. Instead, we've elevated the economy above ecology. Votes: 2

I think human self-hatred may be the great untold story of the millennium. It's the common thread linking deep ecology and animal rights, the love and money we lavish on pets, the uneasy longing for extraterrestrials to be meddling with us. Votes: 2

Guns have metamorphosed into cameras in this earnest comedy, the ecology safari, because nature has ceased to be what it always had been - what people needed protection from. Now nature tamed, endangered, mortal - needs to be protected from people. Votes: 2

Architects have to become designers of eco-systems. Not just designers of beautiful facades or beautiful sculptures, but systems of economy and ecology, where we channel the flow not only of people, but also the flow of resources through our cities and buildings. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

Every once in a while, I get mad. 'The Lorax' came out of my being angry. The ecology books I'd read were dull... In 'The Lorax,' I was out to attack what I think are evil things and let the chips fall where they might. Votes: 2

Like a shadow that does not permit us to jump over it, but moves with us to maintain its proper distance, pollution is nature's answer to culture. When we have learned to recycle pollution into potent information, we will have passed over completely into the new cultural ecology. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

Politicians need a better understanding of global ecology. We need to be freed from our species-specific arrogance. No evidence exists that we are 'chosen', the unique species for which all the others were made. Nor are we the most important one because we are so numerous, powerful and dangerous. Votes: 2

Every year the literary press praises dozens if not hundreds of novels to the skies, asserting explicitly or implicitly that these books will probably not be suffering water damage in the basements of their authors' houses 20 years from now. But historically, anyway, that's not the way the novelistic ecology works. Votes: 2

Well I think on a simple ecological level that the diversity of this planet is important for our survival, that all of our different cultures, people are important to the health of the whole the same way that a species of animal should be saved and at a simple ecology level. Votes: 2

When human beings lose their connection to nature, to heaven and earth, then they do not know how to nurture their environmect or how to rule their world - which is saying the same thing. Human beings destroy their ecology at the same time that they destroy one another. From that perspective, healing our society goes hand in hand with healing our personal, elemental connection with the phenomenal world. Votes: 2

We won't have a society if we destroy the environment Votes: 1

Take what you can use and let the rest go by Votes: 1

[There] is an increasing sense of what can be called "legal pollution Votes: 1

We don't have to protect the environment, the Second Coming is at hand Votes: 1

There was the South Ozone National Bank looking as though it had been waiting for me Votes: 1

Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end by destroying the earth Votes: 1

Modern Society will find no solution to the ecological problem unless it takes a serious look at its lifestyles Votes: 1

Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidise it Votes: 1

Just by being out you're doing your part. It's like recycling. You're doing your part for the environment if you recycle; you're doing your part for the gay movement if you're out Votes: 1

Relationships are the core message of ecology. Votes: 0

Respect the delicate ecology of your delusions. Votes: 0

The kingdom of God is the true ecology of the human soul. Votes: 0

All I ask is that we compare human consciousness with spirochete ecology. Votes: 0

The intersection of spiritual, dark music and radical ecology is quite natural. Votes: 0

in eating ecology love murder vegan vegetarianism flesh eating is unprovoked murder. Votes: 0

Economists don't seem to have noticed that the economy sits entirely within the ecology. Votes: 0

Over and over again, we must stress that a healthy ecology is the basis for a healthy economy. Votes: 0

By ecology we understand the total science of the connections of the organism to the surrounding external world. Votes: 0

Economy without ecology means managing the human nature relationship without knowing the delicate balance between humankind and the natural world Votes: 0

Permaculture creates a cultivated ecology, which is designed to produce more human and animal food than is generally found in nature. Votes: 0

The ecological principle of unity in diversity grades into a richly mediated social principle; hence my use of the term social ecology. Votes: 0

I've always liked trees. And then, growing up, I took an interest in ecology, hedges being destroyed, the landscape being turned into prairies. Votes: 0

We are seeing the birth of a new perspective of the world, where ecology and economics are two sides of the same coin. Votes: 0

I think still it is very fine not to want children. There are far too many people in the world. It is my contribution to ecology Votes: 0

If you can command a lot of attention, that's what is valuable, and many in the commercial ecology would like to have a piece of that attention. Votes: 0

I have hope that humanity will be cured of our collective ecological insanity and that we adapt to living within the boundaries of the laws of ecology. Votes: 0

The world's deteriorating ecology poses as great a danger to mankind today as did the nuclear standoff between the superpowers at the height of the Cold War. Votes: 0

The two most important things to remember in business are: to be aware of the consequential impact on ecology, and a caring relationship between employer and employee. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

As a word, ecology has been so debased by recent political usage that many people employ it to identify anything good that happens far from cities and without human interference. Votes: 0

The testimony of DMT, for me, is that there is a nearby dimension, teeming with intelligences, that from one of the more conservative perspectives seems like an ecology of souls. Votes: 0

If an economy is to sustain progress, it must satisfy the basic principles of ecology. If it does not, it will decline and eventually collapse. There is no middle ground Votes: 0

...when food is shared in a fair way, with solidarity, when no one is deprived, every community can meet the needs of the poorest. Human ecology and environmental ecology walk together. Votes: 0

I believe our only hope for the future is to adopt a new conception of human ecology, one in which we start to reconstitute our concept of the richness in human capacity. Votes: 0

I give you the chameleon, whose ability to blend itself into the background tells you all you need to know about the roots of ecology and the foundations of a personal identity Votes: 0

I forced myself to think what is the new concept and it became clear to me that it was risk, not only in technology and ecology, but in life and employment, too. Votes: 0

If there can be a better way for the real world to include the one of images, it will require an ecology not only of real things but of images as well. Votes: 0

If we don't preserve forest habitat for spotted owls, then soon we won't have trees to refresh the air we breathe. And we're realizing that this applies to social ecology, as well. Votes: 0

No one is an outside observer of nature,We're defined by our environment and our interaction with that environment -- by our ecology. And that ecology is necessarily relative, historical and empirical. Votes: 0

The greenhouse is driven by three things: economy, flavor, ecology. Where ecology is what's being grown in this micro-ecology that can simultaneously thrive and better the soil/rotation, not just the flavor. Votes: 0

A large-scale wind, water and solar energy system can reliably supply the world's needs, significantly benefiting climate, air quality, water quality, ecology and energy security ... [T]he obstacles are primarily political, not technical. Votes: 0

We must set an example now and move environmentalism from being the philosophy of a passionate minority ... to a way of life that automatically integrates ecology into governmental policy and normal living standards. Votes: 0

The structure of a software system provides the ecology in which code is born, matures, and dies. A well-designed habitat allows for the successful evolution of all the components needed in a software system. Votes: 0

We feel we have to put concrete on every inch of land. It disturbs the ecology, and it takes away the experience of a child going out into the woods and seeing all of nature. Votes: 0

We know from the truths of evolution and ecology that we are all related and interdependent. Anthropomorphism (crediting animals with human emotions and traits) is, however, outdated. Rather we know that we are like animals. Votes: 0

Think of all the mesquite in Texas, the pinyon pines, the acorns in Appalachia, every place has the possibility of mass production. It's an infrastructural system so nestled in ecology, it's a more beautiful ecology. Votes: 0

World trade depends on differences among countries, not similarities. Different countries are in different stages of development. It is appropriate for them to have different patterns, different policies for ecology, labor standards, and so forth. Votes: 0