Eco Fiction Quotes

“Terrible drought, crops dead, sheep dying. Spring dried up. No water. The Hopi, and the Christian, maybe the Moslem, they pray for rain. The Navajo has the proper ceremony done to restore himself to harmony with the drought. You see what I mean. The system is designed to recognize what's beyond human power to change, and then to change the human's attitude to be content with the inevitable." - Tony Hillerman, Sacred Clowns, 1993”
― Tony Hillerman

“The evening city lay decrepit and silent under an incessantly seething pink sky. A sky that hung overhead like a field of bloody cotton candy, bisected by the lightning of constantly raging storms. Every once in a while thunder rolled through the streets, shaking the buildings. This was life after the last Black Rain.”
― Costi Gurgu, Pink Corrosion

“A forest takes care of itself, even as it builds the local climate it needs to survive.”
― Richard Powers

“Dejó de cantar y, en silencio, hizo lo que tenía que hacer para darles vida. Esta vez usó más sangre. Casi se desmaya por la cantidad que exprimió de sus venas, pero era necesario. Ahora, la cicatriz en sus cuellos tomó la forma de una estrella. Finalmente, los niños abrieron los ojos. Afuera se escuchó un trueno. Comenzó a llover.”
― Enrique Urbina, Nadie encontrará mis huesos

“And for a moment you wondered if you were angry: you should be angry, you thought, because the water you had played in that had been so blue as a child was covered in silt and piles of strange items, like shipwrecks of trash, and in and among them were the corpses of the mermaids that had once sung you to sleep.”
― Sara Barkat, The Shivering Ground & Other Stories

“When our imagination comes into coherence with our heart, compassion can guide our vision; we are able to consider not only ourselves, but the highest good for all.

-Bodhi Simpson”
― Bodhi Simpson, The Girl Who Cried for the Earth: A Story of Hope, Healing & Possibilities

“When our imagination comes into coherence with our heart, compassion can guide our vision; we are able to consider not only ourselves, but the highest good for all.”
― Bodhi Simpson, The Girl Who Cried for the Earth: A Story of Hope, Healing & Possibilities

“Humanity is part of nature, a species that evolved among other species. The more closely we identify ourselves with the rest of life, the more quickly we will be able to discover the sources of human sensibility and acquire the knowledge on which an enduring ethic, a sense of preferred direction, can be built.
― E.O. Wilson”
― Claire Datnow, The Adventures of The Sizzling Six: Operation Terrapin Rescue

“MINISM #8: Stories can make people ‘feel’ a forest.”
― Sandy McDonald