355 Quotes About Ecology

Among other things, culture is the decision as to how a corpse is to be returned to the soil.

Our pursuit of happiness is an addiction to us and a cancer to our planet.

When we’re children we grow up not just within homes, not just within families and communities, but within ecologies, too — encircled by clouds of birds, sharing the air with insects and pollen, our paths crisscrossing those of hedgehogs and mice; our lives are shaped and tempered by these living worlds, these embracing atmospheres into which each of us is born.

Like great ecologists, great pessimists make us see the beauty of death.

I once took a poo in the woods while hunched over like an animal. It was AWESOME.

Capitalism often inspires us to create a problem for the solution we have come up with.

We urgently need to either start increasing the size of our planet, or stop increasing the size of our population.

إن وجود كائنات تعتاش على افتراس أخرى في ذاته يثبت وحشية هذا العالم، وإن فكرت بعقلية بايولوجية لتفسير ذلك على أنه محاولة لحفظ التوازن الأحيائي والبيئي، إلا أن الوسيلة في ذاتها مرعبة.

Death is the firewood that keeps the fire of life burning.