Ecology Quotes

"When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world" "We should protect nature and preserve the environment like we protect our eyes" "The earth belongs to the living, not to the dead" "The planet is fine. The people are screwed" "Nature does nothing uselessly" "Modern society will find no solution to the ecological problem unless it takes a serious look at its lifestyle" "We need to think of the future and the planet we are going to leave to our children and their children" "The world is not ours to keep. We hold it in trust for future generations" "We won't have a society if we destroy the environment." "The environment is everyone's responsibility." "In nature we never see anything isolated but everything in connection with something else" "The environment is everything that I do" "The environment shapes people's actions." "In wildness is the preservation of the world" "The internal machinery of life, the chemistry of the parts, is something beautiful. And it turns out that all life is interconnected with all other life" "A nation that destroys its soils destroys itself. Forests are the lungs of our land, purifying the air and giving fresh strength to our people" "Expecting an organism to evolve traits just because they are useful to us is a dangerous kind of anthropocentrism." "The animals of the planet are in desperate peril. Without free animal life, I believe we will lose the spiritual equivalent of oxygen." "We have the duty to protect the earth and to ensure its fruitfulness for coming generations." "When we try to pick out anything by itself we find it hitched to everything else in the universe. "