#ecology

Nothing is more important to human beings than an ecologically functioning, life sustaining biosphere on the earth. It is the only habitable place we know of in a forbidding universe. We all depend on it to live and we are compelled to share it; it is our only home... the earth's biosphere seems almost magically suited to human beings and indeed it is, for we evolved through eons of intimate immersion within it. We cannot live long or well without a functioning biosphere, and so it is worth everything we have. ↗

— Joseph Guth

#conservation #earth #ecology #environment #environmentalism

No one species shall make the life of the world its own.' … That's one expression of the law. Here's another: 'The world was not made for any one species. ↗

— Daniel Quinn

#ecology #philosophy #life

Progress is measured by the speed at which we destroy the conditions that sustain life. ↗

— George Monbiot

#ecology #environment #progress #life

Labels bias our perceptions, thinking, and behavior. A label or story can either separate us from, or connect us to, nature. For our health and happiness, we must critically evaluate our labels and stories by their effects. ↗

— Michael J. Cohen

#ecology #health #labels #nature #psychology

I thus found that the student who wishes for a shelter can obtain one for a lifetime at an expense not greater than the rent which he now pays annually. If I seem to boast more than is becoming, my excuse is that I brag for humanity rather than for myself; and my shortcomings and inconsistencies do not affect the truth of my statement. ↗

— Henry David Thoreau

#nature #the-woods #nature

This isn't about keeping mountains looking pretty. Ending mountaintop removal is about keeping humanity alive. ↗

— Rivera Sun

#climate-change #earth #ecology #extinction #mountains

I have a certain pool of subject matter that I like to write about, things that interest me: politics, religion, ecology, and relationships between men and women. And that's usually what I focus on. ↗

— Don Henley

#between #certain #ecology #focus #i

The site I landed on feels much more isolated than it really is; it's almost magical. Within its limited radius, there was a whole range of the local ecology. ↗

— Martin Puryear

#ecology #feels #i #isolated #landed

Diversity is a survival factor for the community itself. A community of a hundred million species can survive anything short of total global catastrophe. Within that hundred million will be thousands that could survive a global temperature drop of twenty degrees—which would be a lot more devastating than it sounds. Within that hundred million will be thousands that could survive a global temperature rise of twenty degrees. But a community of a hundred species or a thousand species has almost no survival value at all. ↗

— Daniel Quinn

#ecology #philosophy #diversity

The social phenomenon of economic growth is, thanks to the principle of the conservation of matter, nothing other than the physical phenomenon of increasing resource depletion. ↗

— Craig Dilworth

#economics #sociology #sociology