355 Quotes About Ecology

...we do not own these woods. They own us.

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.

The thoughts you think on land, the old man said, are different from what you think with the sea. In the sea you learn to think with the water, the fish. That’s why people who make decisions on land, separated from the world by glass and concrete, air-conditioning and software, have such terrible ideas for the world.

Trees could solve the problems if people trying to improve things would only allow them to takeover

At 1.24 am on 26 April 1986 Chernobyl’s Unit 4 reactor exploded after staff disabled safety systems and performed an ill-advised experiment to check – ironically enough – the reactor’s safety.

Country is the boss.

This is where the will to grapple with our hard and pressing environmental problems begins: in relationship to something other that you love beyond any utility, beyond any logic.

These folk are hewers of trees and hunters of beasts; therefore we are their unfriends, and if they will not depart we shall afflict them in all ways that we can.

The world is carried in the wild heart of a tiger. When the last wild tiger is extinguished, civilization will turn on itself.