Ecology at FinestQuotes.com

In its broadest ecological context, economic development is the development of more intensive ways of exploiting the natural environment.
Richard Wilkinson

If we do not permit the Earth to produce beauty and joy, it will in the end not produce food either.
Joseph Woodkrutch

Racial injustice, war, urban blight, and environmental rape have a common denominator in our exploitative economic system.
Channing E. Phillips

I have no doubt that we will be successful in harnessing the sun's energy.... If sunbeams were weapons of war, we would have had solar energy centuries ago.
Sir George Porter

For many of us, water simply flows from a faucet, and we think little about it beyond this point of contact. We have lost a sense of respect for the wild river, for the complex workings of a wetland, for the intricate web of life that water supports.
Sandra Postel

We must protect the forests for our children, grandchildren and children yet to be born. We must protect the forests for those who can't speak for themselves such as the birds, animals, fish and trees.
Nuxalk Nation

If we think systematically, we will stop asking, "How much is nature worth?" We will know that we are a piece of nature ourselves.
Karl-Henrik RobÃ¨rt

I recognize the right and duty of this generation to develop and use our natural resources, but I do not recognize the right to waste them, or to rob by wasteful use, the generations that come after us.
Theodore Roosevelt

The nation behaves well if it treats the natural resources as assets which it must turn over to the next generation increased, and not impaired in value.
Theodore Roosevelt

I am drawn to the wild not because it is wild but because it is sensible, logical, ordered, stable, resilient. Wild nature is everything we're struggling to regain.
Carl Safina

We still have to learn how to live peacefully, not only with our fellow men but also with nature and, above all, with those Higher Powers which have made nature and have made us; for, assuredly, we have not come about by accident and certainly have not made ourselves
E.F. Schumacher

Until mankind can extend the circle of his compassion to include all living things, he will never, himself, know peace.
Albert Schweitzer

Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together. All things connect.
Chief Seattle

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