#ecological

The plants we've chosen will collect and cycle Earth's minerals,water, and air;shade the soil and renew it with leafy mulch; and yield fruits and greens for people and wildlife. ↗

— Toby Hemenway

#food-security #gardening #organic #permaculture #provision

The question that will decide our destiny is not whether we shall expand into space. It is: shall we be one species or a million? A million species will not exhaust the ecological niches that are awaiting the arrival of intelligence. ↗

— Freeman Dyson

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Most of them are doomed to rapid extinction, but a few may make evolutionary inventions, such as physiological, ecological, or behavioral innovations that give these species improved competitive potential. ↗

— Ernst Mayr

#competitive #doomed #ecological #evolutionary #extinction

Finally, the ecological health of the Mississippi River and its economic importance to the many people that make their living or seek their recreation is based on a healthy river system. ↗

— Ron Kind

#ecological #economic #finally #health #healthy

That inefficiency is masked because growth and progress are measured in money, and money does not give us information about ecological systems, it only gives information about financial systems. ↗

— Paul Hawken

#because #does #ecological #financial #financial systems

I also assume that they are not simply the physical properties of things as now conceived by physical science. Instead, they are ecological, in the sense that they are properties of the environment relative to an animal. ↗

— James J. Gibson

#animal #assume #conceived #ecological #environment

The hierarchy of relations, from the molecular structure of carbon to the equilibrium of the species and ecological whole, will perhaps be the leading idea of the future. ↗

— Joseph Needham

#ecological #equilibrium #future #hierarchy #idea