Ecology Quotes

If you want to see an endangered species, get up and look in the mirror.

John Young

Nature is what she is - amoral and persistent.

The current collapse of industrial society may well be the planet's way of avoiding a larger death.

Bergman, Morris

The use of solar energy has not been opened up because the oil industry does not own the sun

Ralph Nade

We shall continue to have a worsening ecologic crisis until we reject the Christian axiom that nature has no reason for existence save to serve man.

Lynn White, Jr.

I awake each morning torn between a desire to save the world and a desire to savour the world. This makes it hard to plan my day.

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

Garrett Hardin

As soils are depleted, human health, vitality and intelligence go with them.

Bromfield, Louis

There is something fundamentally wrong with treating the earth as if it were a business in liquidation.

Herman Daly

Wildness is the preservation of the World.

A Healthy Ecology is the Basis for a Healthy Economy.

Claudine Schneider

Man talks of a battle with Nature, forgetting that if he won the battle, he would find himself on the losing side.

E. F. Schumacher

The conservationist's most Important task, if we are to save the earth, is to educate.

Peter Scott

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

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

Jean Claude

The rose has thorns only for those who would gather it

The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition.

The mother of the year should be a sterilized woman with two adopted children.

Paul R. Ehrlich

They kill good trees to put out bad newspapers.

James G. Watt

The study of Nature is intercourse with the Highest Mind.

Louis Agassiz

Our moral and ethical responsibility is to protect other species in the spirit of husbandry rather than destroy them in and attitude of conquest.

Charles Southwick

Wildness can be a way of reassuring ourselves of our sanity as creatures, a part of the geography of hope.

Wallace Stenger

Unfortunately, our affluent society has also been an effluent society.

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