Ecological Quotes

Ecological Quote of the day

Subversive, ethical, ecological, political, humorous ... this is how I see my duty as a designer.

Finally, the ecological health of the Mississippi River and its economic importance to the many people that make their living or seek their recreation is based on a healthy river system.

Ecology and spirituality are fundamentally connected, because deep ecological awareness, ultimately, is spiritual awareness.

An anarchist society, far from being a remote ideal, has become a precondition for the practice of ecological principles.

We have to shift our emphasis from economic efficiency and materialism towards a sustainable quality of life and to healing of our society, of our people and our ecological systems.

I think that there are empty ecological niches in the literary landscape crying to be filled and when a book more or less fills a niche it's seized on, even when it's a far from perfect fit...

Ecological devastation is the excrement, so to speak, of man's power worship.

[My vision is] To make the world work for 100% of humanity in the shortest possible time through spontaneous cooperation without ecological offense or the disadvantage of anyone.

Technology cannot be an end in itself but must aim at solving long term social and ecological problems.

Our personal consumer choices have ecological, social, and spiritual consequences. It is time to re-examine some of our deeply held notions that underlie our lifestyles.

Wars don't happen on battlefields; they go on happening in people's hearts for generations and generations, and the ecological damage is unfathomably complex and dire.

The ecological crisis is doing what no other crisis in history has ever done - challenging us to a realization of a new humanity.

We need what I have often called an ecological approach to the management of these resources and we do not have that now. We have the inertia of past habits, unsustainable habits.

It is not man the ecological crisis threatens to destroy but the quality of human life.

I think buildings should imitate ecological systems.

More science and more technology are not going to get us out of the present ecological crises until we find a new religion, or rethink our old one.

The abuse of the Earth is the ecological crisis.

Simplicity means to choose ways of living that touch the Earth more lightly and that reduce our ecological footprint.

Socialism failed because it couldn't tell the economic truth. Capitalism may fail because it couldn't tell the ecological truth.

We can pay the ecological debt by changing economic models, and by giving up luxury consumption, setting aside selfishness and individualism, and thinking about the people and the planet Earth.

The shortage of fresh water is the major ecological problem of this moment.

Tell me of what plant-birthday a man takes notice, and I shall tell you a good deal about his vocation, his hobbies, his hay fever, and the general level of his ecological education.

Humans are now the most numerous mammal on the planet. There are more humans than rats or mice. Humans have a huge ecological footprint, magnified by their technology.

By obtaining a sense of its place in the unfolding drama of life, set in an ecological theatre, so we can understand why it has become one of the leading players.

When you don't take into account the way ecological systems work, then you do damage.

In reality, we haven't escaped the gravity of life at all. We are still beholden to ecological laws, the same as any other life-form.

Throughout the world today there is a gowing awareness of the failings of the Western model of development and a corresponding desire to look for more human-scale, ecological ways of living.

Until we become the architects of a society that is truly free and ecological, it will always seem that when the human brain is not adaptive, it is more often destructive than creative.

Humanity is living off its ecological credit card and can only do this by liquidating the planet's natural resources.

I have hope that humanity will be cured of our collective ecological insanity and that we adapt to living within the boundaries of the laws of ecology.

The ecological crisis is a moral issue.

The roots of our ecological crises are axiomatic: they lie in our belief and value structures which shape our relationship with nature, with each other and the lifestyles we lead.

Some of the technologies that were created during the Industrial Revolution were appalling, such as capitalization, investment, social hierarchy, sexism, racism, and ecological destruction.

A token of ecological awareness in a society devoted to self destruction and waste but unwilling to acknowledge its indulgent ways.

Modern society will find no solution to the ecological problem unless it takes a serious look at its lifestyle.

The notion of ever more old people needing ever more young people, who will in turn grow old and need even more young people, and so on ad infinitum, is an obvious ecological Ponzi scheme.

I think that witnessing ecological problems visible from space is one of the new and essential roles of astronauts

The Industrial Age is not sustainable. Its not sustainable in ecological terms, and its not sustainable in human terms.

If politics and business fail us, of course the military will be called in. In the developing world, the massive and repeated ecological disasters are quite commonly met by the military.

Public art existed all along, but ecological art just naturally grew out of my thinking and writings in that area for years. I didn't get involved in it; I started what then became a movement.

The only real form of pollution is people. Any ecological system which does not include the reduction or stopping of growth of the population is eyewash

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

Every time we consume meat, eggs or dairy foods, we contribute to ecological devastation and the wasteful misuse of resources on a global scale.

We do not have an ecological crisis. The ecosphere has a human crisis. Our 'story' about our place in the scheme of things has somehow gone awry in the industrial age.

The ecological principle of unity in diversity grades into a richly mediated social principle; hence my use of the term social ecology.

The ecological principle in agriculture is to connect the genius of the place, to fit the farming to the farm.

Trees are right at the heart of all the necessary debates: ecological, social, economic, political, moral, religious.

My greatest hope is that we transcend the most fearful thing, which is that we are rapidly degrading the ecological systems on this planet that support everything we are doing and all life on it.

We're finally going to get the bill for the Industrial Age. If the projections are right, it's going to be a big one: the ecological collapse of the planet.

An ecological approach to the economy is about having enough, not having more.