#ecology

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #ecology




Human use, population, and technology have reached that certain stage where mother Earth no longer accepts our presence with silence.


Dalai Lama XIV


#technology

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.


Rachel Carson


#ecology #reality #universe #wonder #wonder

...we need to remind ourselves that natural systems are much more finely tuned than we think, and if we like the way they currently work, then we should try very, very hard to not screw with them.


Rowan Jacobsen


#nature

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


Margaret J. Wheatley


#consequences #ecology #every #every time #example

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.


Ulrich Beck


#clear #concept #ecology #employment #forced

...It's not that the worm forgives the plough; it gives it no mind. (Pain occurs, in passing.) (lines 37-39 in the poem 'Fantasia on a Theme from IKEA')


Philip Gross


#poetry #wales #forgiveness

Man wants to see nature and evolution as separate from human activities. There is a natural world, and there is man. But man also belongs to the natural world. If he is a ferocious predator, that too is part of evolution. If cod and haddock and other species cannot survive because man kills them, something more adaptable will take their place. Nature, the ultimate pragmatist, doggedly searches for something that works. But as the cockroach demonstrates, what works best in nature does not always appeal to us.


Mark Kurlansky


#ecology #evolution #extinction #humans #natural-world

I see young men, my townsmen, whose misfortune it is to have inherited farms, houses, barns, cattle, and farming tools; for these are more easily acquired than got rid of. Better if they had been born in the open pasture and suckled by a wolf, that they might have seen with clearer eyes what field they were called to labor in. Who made them serfs of the soil? Why should they eat their sixty acres, when man is condemned to eat only his peck of dirt? Why should they begin digging their graves as soon as they are born?


Henry David Thoreau


#economics #nature #society #men

The race is now on between the technoscientific and scientific forces that are destroying the living environment and those that can be harnessed to save it. . . . If the race is won, humanity can emerge in far better condition than when it entered, and with most of the diversity of life still intact.


Edward O. Wilson


#climate-change #e-o-wison #earth-changes #ecology #naturalism

If a product is more expensive than another one, and more sustainable in ecology, consumers will not buy it.


Jean Claude


#buy #consumers #ecology #expensive #more