355 Quotes About Ecology

Most yards can support many more trees than they currently do, particularly near the borders of the property, without losing the open feel near the house that people enjoy.

If you are concerned about the human impact on our plant's climate, reducing the amount of lawn you mow each week is one of the best things you can do to reduce your family's carbon dioxide emissions. On average, mowing your lawn for one hour produces as much pollution as driving 650 miles. Moreover, we now burn 800 million gallons of gas each year in our dirty little lawnmower engines to keep our lawns at bay.

Life improves the capacity to sustain life [...] Life makes needed nutrients more readily available. It binds more energy into the system through the tremendous chemical interplay from organism to organism.

I am not by any means wholly opposed to the ideas involved, though i think that these are more naturally expressed in another way.

But if someone decides that our heating and cooling are unnatural, what’s next? Then someone will decide that clean water is fake, and then someone will decide that LEDs are fake, and then someone will say we can’t eat anything we don’t grow ourselves. Who actually decides these things?

The audience sat on collapsible stool-like things made of folded recyclable cardboard that existed for no reason other than to not be normal chairs. To subvert “the chair.” The institution was critical of institutions: this was the message they were supposed to get from the wobbly stools.

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On Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays at 9: 35 a.m., I am usually in a lecture hall at the university, expounding about botany and ecology— trying, in short, to explain to my students how Skywoman’s gardens, known by some as “global ecosystems,” function.

The ecological crisis we face is so obvious that it becomes easy -- for some, strangely or frighteningly easy -- to join the dots and see that everything is interconnected. This is the ecological thought. And the more we consider it, the more our world opens up.