Ecology Quotes

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

A single tree cannot make a forest.

We have to stabilize the population of this planet.

One thing I did was grow up as an ardent naturalist. I never grew out of my bug period.

People are beginning to realize that we need to live in accordance with the law of ecology, the law of finite resources, and if we don't, we're going to go extinct.

I love nature, and I love information.

Right now there should be a moratorium on the cutting down of old growth in this country. That is a small thing to ask at this point. There is only four percent of old growth left. Ninety-six percent of it has been cut down.

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.

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

When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe. One fancies a heart like our own must be beating in every crystal and cell, and we feel like stopping to speak to the plants and animals as friendly fellow-mountaineers. Nature as a poet, an enthusiastic workingman, becomes more and more visible the farther and higher we go.

I love to think that animals and humans and plants and fishes and trees and stars and the moon are all connected.

Despite widely differing perspectives and agendas, there seems to be a remarkable global consensus that has built up over a fairly short period of time that climate change and ecology is one of the truly defining issues for humanity.

I think Captain Cousteau might be the father of the environmental movement.

However, I think the major opposition to ecology has deeper roots than mere economics; ecology threatens widely held values so fundamental that they must be called religious.

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

Every once in a while, I get mad. 'The Lorax' came out of my being angry. The ecology books I'd read were dull... In 'The Lorax,' I was out to attack what I think are evil things and let the chips fall where they might.

I have a certain pool of subject matter that I like to write about, things that interest me: politics, religion, ecology, and relationships between men and women. And that's usually what I focus on.

The world is like a little marsh filled with mint and white hawthorn.

Trees and flowers are so important. The idea of blooming is the idea of becoming something different.

We do not have to choose between a healthy environment and a healthy economy.

I was the kind of kid who liked omnivorously almost all kinds of science - rock collections, fossils - and I like leaves, I like plants, and I like biology.

I have been naturally inclined towards mountains, trees, flowers, and rivers.

What right do I have to be in the woods, if the woods are not in me.

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

The future will belong to the nature-smart...Th e more high-tech we become, the more nature we need.