Don DeLillo Quotes

Ecology is the overall science of which economics is a minor speciality.

I appreciate nature as well and everything green.

Right now, we don't have a very good relation with creation.

No phenomenon can be isolated, but has repercussions through every aspect of our lives. We are learning that we are a fundamental part of nature's ecosystems.

Nothing was made by God for man to spoil or destroy.

Our relationship to the environment matters, our relationship to animals matters, and our relationship to culture matters.

My travels through physics really are the same urges that make me travel through ecology. They are not really different, except that there is an added dimension of seeing ecological destruction and seeing the very life-support system that makes us survive on this planet being destroyed. That makes me do more than just inquire; it compels me to act and to intervene.

The road to conservation is paved with good intentions that often prove futile, or even dangerous, due to a lack of understanding of either land or economic land use.

The concept of conservation is a far truer sign of civilization than that spoilation of a continent which we once confused with progress.

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

Environment is of supreme importance. It is greater than will power.

Nature does require her times of preservation.

Sadly, it's much easier to create a desert than a forest.

I never lose an opportunity to speak about my obsession: humankind and the environment.

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

Our livelihood is intimately tied to the food we eat, water we drink and places where we recreate. That's why we have to promote responsibility and conservation when it comes to our natural resources.

We talk of our mastery of nature, which sounds very grand; but the fact is we respectfully adapt ourselves, first, to her ways.

We seem to think we have some control over this planet.

We should preserve every scrap of biodiversity as priceless while we learn to use it and come to understand what it means to humanity.

'The Creation' presents an argument for saving biological diversity on Earth. Most of the book is for as broad an audience as possible.

The oldest task in human history: to live on a piece of land without spoiling it..

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..

Everybody deserves a chance to be in nature.

If I have any lasting worth, it will be because I have tried to make people remember what the Earth is meant to look like.

Nature is simply the environment on earth in which man finds himself, and to treat it as a separate being in the image of man is sheer nonsense.