Arthur Erickson Quotes

The most important principle of environment is that you are not the only element.

I want viewers to see that everything is connected, even the little guys like pollinators and flowers.

Environmentalism is a way of seeing our place within the biosphere.

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

The further we distance ourselves from the spell of the present, explored by our senses, the harder it will be to understand and protect nature's precarious balance, let alone the balance of our own human nature.

Ecosystems are holy. The word "environmental" is a deadly compromise itself. It's a policy word that lives only in the head, and barely there.

Trivially speaking, ecological awareness means realising that beings are interconnected in some way, but then we have to figure out what this interconnection actually means.

Nature is so phenomenal.

Ecology is boring for the same reason that destruction is fun.

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

Upon the creatures we have made, we are, ourselves, at last, dependent.

I like the outdoors and the natural world. Environmental issues.

We're getting closer to our nature.

We are embedded in a biological world and related to the organisms around us.

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

Most individuals have always thought themselves not big enough or significant enough to have an effect on the whole planet, a notion which conversely made them think they could afford big arrogance and big greed over its resources.

Unless we connect directly with the earth, we will not have the faintest clue why we should save it…. Only if we understand the beauty of nature will we love it, and only if we become alerted to learn about the planet's disease processes can we decide to live our lives with a proper sense of ecological responsibility.

Ecology has become the political substitute for the word "motherhood.

Everyone lives downstream from someone else.

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.

The natural world is a source of inspiration.

All I want to do is to present the abundance of life on Earth.

The planet's forests are essential for life.

The land and the ocean are living, breathing entities that supported us, clothed us, fed us, and nurtured our culture from time immemorial.

The earth is one big interconnected entity. If you hurt a piece, you hurt the whole. If you hurt the people, you hurt the environment.