Ecological Quotes

“The generation that destroys the environment is not the generation that pays the price. That is the problem.”
― Wangari Maathai

“With everything we do in business, it's important that we always consider the ecological implications. And if we're really doing things the Permaculture way, then it's not just about factoring in ecological cost, but better yet ensuring that business processes and outputs actually add value to ecological and natural systems.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

“On comprenait que les hommes pourraient être aussi efficaces que Dieu dans d'autres domaines que la destruction.”
― Jean Giono, The Man Who Planted Trees

“in the heat of unprecedented technological breakthroughs it is easy to think that we are invincible, like gods who would rule the world. But none of us need be reminded that the future of our planet is being held hostage by our own cleverness, with nuclear physics, chemistry, agribusiness, mineral exploration, and bioengineering threatening our biosphere in ways we could never have imagined even twenty years ago.”
― Hal Zina Bennett, Spirit Animals and the Wheel of Life: Earth-Centered Practices for Daily Living

“Knowledge is power and at the end of the day, our health, the health of our children, the health of our community, and the health of Mother Earth is our responsibility. Therefore, it is imperative that we understand the human and environmental affects of the products that we buy.”
― Obiora Embry

“Кого можно назвать самым смелым? Пожалуй, крохотную бабочку, которая подвергается тем же атмосферным условиям, как и лев.”
― Nicholas Roerich, Agni-Yoga

“Everything added to her and everything taken away had led to that moment and from her perch she had radiated love for every animal she could not help, with nothing left over for any human being.”
― Jeff VanderMeer, The Strange Bird: A Borne Story

“Het mag eigenaardig heten, dat, volgens de overleveringen der oudste kolonies, dit stuk grond vroeger er bijna precies zo uitzag als het stadspark thans. Veertig of vijftig of misschien wel vijfenzeventig jaar geleden was die plek namelijk een open bosterrein met een werkelijk natuurmeer in het midden. Later werd het meer drooggelegd omdat men er koren wilde gaan verbouwen en de vissen, die er leefde - voornamelijk edele soorten als baarzen en snoekbaarzen - stierven in de door de zon verkorste modder. De plaats waar het meer geweest was bleef evenwel drassig en er vormde zich eigener beweging een poel, die met de jaren groter werd en dus eigenlijk niets anders was dan een poging van het meer om zich staande te houden. En het is dus wel nogal zonderling, dat er gebouwen gesloopt zijn moeten worden en er veel geld is moeten worden besteed alleen om het kleine bosterrein met het meer tot zijn vroegere bekoorlijkheid te reconstrueren. Zodat men geneigd zou zijn zich verwonderd af te vragen waarom men van het begin af aan de dingen maar liever niet gelaten heeft zoals ze nu eenmaal waren.”
― Edison Marshall

“He cowered in terror as the body of the beast darkened the water above him. The monster swooped around the crevice, scenting the blood trail from Luke's foot. Luke saw that several of his toes had been ripped off. He felt sick.”
― Alison Cooklin, The Light Travellers: Luke's Journey

“L'acier, l'airain plus fortement s'allume
que les roseaux qu'un feu léger consume.”
― Voltaire, La Pucelle; Or, the Maid of Orléans: A Poem, in XXI Cantos. Volume 1 of 2.

“I want to be done with tears, and the day is too beautiful for them anyway. Nevertheless, I consider my tears for a moment, the idea of them, a link to the earth’s ancient origins. I’m comforted by the notion that I carry a bit of the sea within myself wherever I go. It’s nice to think that water is not such an exotic thing after all.”
― Denise Getson

“I glance at the sky, but there are no clouds. There are never clouds. I know what clouds look like only because of the digital images in our lessons at school. I know someone who has been north, to the mountains, and swears she saw clouds. Perhaps she’s telling the truth, but I doubt it.”
― Denise Getson, Dry Souls

“The power of manifestation is great but you must intend to manifest which is in the highest good of everyone. That’s why it’s essential to meditate and listen to your intuition.”
― Hina Hashmi, Your Life A Practical Guide to Happiness Peace and Fulfilment

“Dieser Zwang zu Überfluss ist weder effizient für die Umwelt, noch für den Geldbeutel.”
― Lorenzo Frick, Die vollkommene Gesellschaft: Fragen und Antworten einer kritischen Auseinandersetzung

“Я не знаю количества всех мостов, существующих на свете, но я знаю, что их столько, что, например, количество слонов на земле, без всякого сомнения, гораздо меньше”
― Константин Константинович Случевский, Профессор Бессмертия

“Industrial processes follow a clear, linear, hierarchical logic that is fairly easy to put into words, probably because words follow a similar logic: First this, then that; put this in here, and then out comes that. But the relationship between cows and chickens on this [Polyface] farm...takes the form of a loop rather than a line, and that makes it hard to know where to start, or how to distinguish between causes and effects, subjects and objects. . .
Joel would say this is precisely the point, and precisely the distinction between a biological and an industrial system. "In an ecological system like this everything's connected to everything else, so you can't change one thing without changing ten other things. . .This farm is more like an organism than a machine, and like any organism it has proper scale.”
― Michael Pollan, The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals

“L'histoire montre ... que moins on lit et plus on achète de livres.”
― Albert Camus, Jonas Ou L'Artiste Au Travail: Suivi de la Pierre Qui Pousse (Folio (Gallimard))

“Рита засмеялась в ответ, и, пока она смеялась, я подумал, что её зубы вполне пригодны для того, чтобы разгрызть сухой початок кукурузы, если бы в том случилась нужда.”
― Аркадий Гайдар, Обрез

“...one of the great tasks of ecological thinking will be to develop an ecological civicism that restores the organic bonds of community without reverting to the archaic blood-tie at one extreme or the totalitarian "folk philosophy" of fascism at the other.”
― Murray Bookchin, Urbanization Without Cities: The Rise and Decline of Citizenship

“Up to a decade or two ago, the system production-nature (man's productive-exploitative relationship with nature and its resources) was perceived as a constant, whereas everybody was busy imagining different forms of the social organization of production and commerce (Fascism or Communism as alternatives to liberal capitalism); today, as Fredric Jameson perspicaciously remarked, nobody seriously considers possible alternatives to capitalism any longer, whereas popular imagination is persecuted by the visions of the forthcoming ‘breakdown of nature’, of the stoppage of all life on earth – it seems easier to imagine the ‘end of the world’ than a far more modest change in the mode of production, as if liberal capitalism is the ‘real’ that will somehow survive even under conditions of a global ecological catastrophe.”
― Slavoj Žižek, Mapping Ideology

“We have come a long way, but the amount of wisdom we could learn from the Indigenous people and their ecological practices to create sustainable civilizations is multitudinous.”
― Bhuwan Thapaliya, Our Nepal, Our Pride

“The dragon is withered,
His bones are now crumbled;
His armour is shivered,
His splendour is humbled!
Though sword shall be rusted,
And throne and crown perish
With strength that men trusted
And wealth that they cherish,
Here grass is still growing,
And leaves are yet swinging,
The white water flowing,
And elves are yet singing
Come! Tra-la-la-lally!
Come back to the valley!

The stars are far brighter
Than gems without measure,
The moon is far whiter
Than silver in treasure:
The fire is more shining
On hearth in the gloaming
Than gold won by mining,
So why go a-roaming?
O! Tra-la-la-lally
Come back to the Valley.”
― Tolkien J. R. R.

“Cost-effectiveness is the screw that turns the wheel of efficiency. But there is a considerable cost to pursuing cost-effectiveness. Here is the logarithm of progress: The more you pursue being saved from the drudgery of going through your days, the ordinariness of being around, the venality of physical limitation or vulnerability, the more is taken from the physical world to provide you that salvation and the more remote you will be from what grants you your security. That is an ecological and spiritual fact.”
― Stephen Jenkinson, Die Wise: A Manifesto for Sanity and Soul

“If you're after getting the honey
Then you don't go killing all the bees”
― Joe Strummer and the Mescaleros, Johnny Appleseed