355 Quotes About Ecology

  • Author Aldo Leopold
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    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.

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  • Author The Dalai Lama
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    Human use, population, and technology have reached that certain stage where mother Earth no longer accepts our presence with silence.

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  • Author Gary Snyder
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    Having a place means that you know what a place means...what it means in a storied sense of myth, character and presence but also in an ecological sense...Integrating native consciousness with mythic consciousness

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  • Author Theodore Roosevelt
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    The nation behaves well if it treats its natural resources as assets which it must turn over to the next generation increased, and not impaired, in value.

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  • Author Eric Hansen
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    Many collectors died in process of searching for new species, and despite persistent reports that the men died from drowning, gunshot and knife wounds, snakebite, trampling by cattle, or blows in the head with blunt instruments, it is generally accepted that in each case the primary cause of death was orchid fever.

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  • Author John Prine as sung by John Denver
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    And daddy won't you take me back to Muhlenberg CountyDown by the Green River where Paradise lay""Well, I'm sorry, my son, but you're too late in askingMister Peabody's coal train has hauled it away.

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  • Author Jason Kirkey
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    There is a saying that 'the psychotic drowns in the waters that the mystic swims in.' The health and structural integrity of the ego means the difference between spiritual emergence, the unfolding of a transpersonal identity; and a spiritual emergency a crisis brought on by the same unfolding, during which the foundations of sanity can be shaken.

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