355 Quotes About Ecology

Embodied devotion and dedication is about how we give ourselves to the world; it’s about our relationships with other embodied beings.

Perhaps the central question about [Eliot] Porter's work is about the relationship between science, aesthetics, and environmental politics. His brother, the painter and critic Fairfield Porter, wrote in a 1960 review of [Porter's] colour photographs: 'There is no subject and background, every corner is alive,' and this suggests what an ecological aesthetic might look like.

...the consensus among landscape ecologists is that 3 to 5 percent of the land remains as undisturbed habitat for plants and animals (Rosenzweig 2003). In other words, we have taken and modified for our own use between 95 and 97 percent of all land in the lower 48 states.

...we humans have disrupted natural habitats in so many ways and in so many places that the future of our nation's biodiversity is dim unless we start to share the places in which we live --our cities and, to an even greater extent, our suburbs -- with the plants and animals that evolved there

You must cultivate ecological literacy among the people.

I love it when people yell at me about the environment and then I tell 'em I'm burning 90% cleaner than them.

Would-be green capitalism is nothing but a publicity stunt, a label for the purpose of selling a commodity, or - in the best of cases - a local initiative equivalent to a drop of water on the arid soil of the capitalist desert.

Atmospheric carbon concentration should not breach 350ppm if the climate is to remain stable (we crossed that boundary in 1990, and hit 415ppm in 2020).

Here's where redesign begins in earnest, where we stop trying to be less bad and we start figuring out how to be good.