Ecological Awareness Quotes

“We must consider the building not as an object but as a collaborative system tightly linked to it's natural environment; an ecological niche.”
― Neri Oxman

“When the public protests. confronted with some obvious evidence of damaging results of pesticide applications, it is fed little tranquilizers pills of half truth.”
― Rachel Carson, Silent Spring

“If we do not save the environment, then whatever we do in civil rights will be of no meaning, because then we will have the equality of extinction.”
― James L. Farmer Jr.

“ನಮಗೆ ನಮ್ಮ ಸಮಾಜದ ಹೊರಗಿನ ವಿಶ್ವಸಮಾಜದ ಪರಿಚಯಕ್ಕೆ ನರಭಕ್ಷಕನೇ ಬಂದು ಹೊತ್ತೊಯ್ಯಬೇಕೆ? ಇಲಿಗಳು ಬಿಲಗಳಿಂದ ಕಲ್ಲುಗಳನ್ನು ಎತ್ತಿಟ್ಟರೂ ಸಾಕಲ್ಲವೇ?”
― Poornachandra Tejasvi

“The city had grown, implacably, spreading its concrete and alloy fingers wider every day over the dark and feral country. Nothing could stop it. Mountains were stamped flat. Rivers were dammed off or drained or put elsewhere. The marshes were filled. The animals shot from the trees and then the trees cut down. And the big gray machines moved forward, gobbling up the jungle with their iron teeth, chewing it clean of its life and all its living things.
Until it was no more.
Leveled, smoothed as a highway is smoothed, its centuries choked beneath millions and millions of tons of hardened stone.
The birth of a city... It had become the death of a world.”
― Charles Beaumont, Perchance to Dream: Selected Stories

“The core of the ecological imbalance and global warming is the exploitation mindset. Nature is not for exploitation but exploration for better living, coexistence, co-caring, and co-growing.”
― Amit Ray, Peace Bliss Beauty and Truth: Living with Positivity

“When you've finished washing and dressing each morning, you must tend your planet.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

“We humans have a questionable track record in our dealings with the environment. Recent studies show that complete restoration of Florida’s Everglades could take approximately 30 years and 7.8 billion dollars. There’s a lot of work to be done–but the damage is not irreversible. Together, through conservation and public awareness, we may be able to correct many of these unfortunate trends. Today, it is not enough to just appreciate nature–we have to actively work to protect it.”
― Tommy Rodriguez, Visions of the Everglades: History Ecology Preservation

“He who sees a gold bullion more valuable than a tree has surely an intelligence much less than a donkey’s!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“It must never be forgotten that for non-modern man - whether he be ancient or contemporary - the very stuff of the Universe has a sacred aspect. The cosmos speaks to man and all of its phenomena contain meaning. They are symbols of a higher degree of reality which the cosmic domain at once veils and reveals. The very structure of the cosmos contains a spiritual message for man and is thereby a revelation coming from the same source as religion itself. Both are the manifestations of the Universal Intellect, the Logos, and the cosmos itself is an integral part of that total Universe of meaning in which man lives and dies.”
― Seyyed Hossein Nasr, Man and Nature: The Spiritual Crisis in Modern Man

“We live in a truly uncommon age of integration. Vast amounts of knowledge are being organized and integrated in ground-breaking, systematic ways. All over the world, people are creating revolutionary models of spiritual, psychological, ecological, and cultural ways of operating, all trying to provide solutions to our current local and global crises. These are bridges to a worldview that many are sensing is coming—one where truth can be universal, relative, and developmental all at once. Each generation has an opportunity to participate in the creative, co-evolutionary unfolding of reality. Now it is our turn.”
― Shahar Rabi, Spiritual Misfits: Collaboration and Belonging in a Divisive World

“The ecological crisis is only an externalization of an inner malaise and cannot be solved without a spiritual rebirth of Western man […] It is still our hope that as the crisis created by man's forgetfulness of who he really is grows and that as the idols of his own making crumble one by one before his eyes, he will begin a true reform of himself, which always means a spiritual rebirth and through his rebirth attain a new harmony with the world of nature around him. Otherwise, it is hopeless to expect to live in harmony with that grand theophany which is virgin nature, while remaining oblivious and indifferent to the Source of that theophany both beyond nature and at the centre of man's being […] Few are willing to look reality in the face and accept the fact that there is no peace possible in human society as long as the attitude toward nature and the whole natural environment is one based on aggression and war. Furthermore, perhaps not all realize that in order to gain this peace with nature there must be peace with the spiritual order. To be at peace with the Earth one must be at peace with Heaven.”
― Seyyed Hossein Nasr, Man and Nature: The Spiritual Crisis in Modern Man

“. . . the fact that people are starving and dying of thirst all around the world has nothing to do with whether or not I eat all of my mashed potato, and everything to do with the fact that billions of us are refusing to build infrastructure that can distribute the earth's resources lovingly and mindfully.”
― Madeleine Ryan, A Room Called Earth

“And how, even a few days ago, in my own childhood, the English meadows too had been alive with wings. And how quiet now was the poisoned countryside.”
― Mary Stewart

“Soil, The Sonnet

My skin is the color of soil,
My covers are the color of soil.
My heart is the color of soil,
My blood is the color of soil.

Species that forgets the soil,
Is a lifeform abandoned by nature.
Species that values sales over soil,
Will soon be vaporized or drowned by nature.

If we have no place for soil in our heart,
How can we expect the soil to replenish us!
If we have no place for nature in our heart,
How can we expect nature to have a place for us!

Only soil is real, all else is delusion.
Advancement that has no regard for the soil,
is but aneurysm destined for degeneration.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Mucize Misafir Merhaba: The Peace Testament

“Antes de mais nada, trata-se, parece-me, de uma ética social: não é uma ética dos comportamentos individuais, não visa culpabilizar as pessoas, promover o ascetismo, ou a autolimitação. Com certeza, é importante que os indivíduos sejam educados para respeitar o meio ambiente e recusar o desperdício, mas o verdadeiro jogo se joga noutra parte: na mudança das estruturas econômicas e sociais capitalistas/comerciais, no estabelecimento de um novo paradigma de produção e distribuição, fundado, como vimos anteriormente, em levar em conta as necessidades sociais - notadamente a necessidade vital de viver num meio ambiente natural não degradado. Uma mudança que exige atores sociais, movimentos sociais, organizações ecológicas, partidos políticos, e não apenas indivíduos de boa vontade.”
― Michael Löwy, O que é ecossocialismo?

“Uma questão se coloca: que garantia temos de que as pessoas farão as escolhas certas, as que protegem o meio ambiente, mesmo que o preço a pagar seja mudar uma parte de seus hábitos de consumo? Tal "garantia" não existe, somente uma perspectiva razoável de que a racionalidade das decisões democráticas triunfará uma vez abolido o fetichismo dos bens de consumo. É certo que o povo cometerá erros fazendo más escolhas, mas os próprios especialistas não cometem erros? É impossível conceber a construção de uma nova sociedade sem que a maioria do povo tenha atingido uma grande consciência socialista e ecológica graças às suas lutas, à sua autoeducação e à sua experiência social.”
― Michael Löwy, O que é ecossocialismo?

“Systemkritik ist oft ein ­elegantes Alibi, um die Verantwortung des einzelnen Individuums kleinzureden.

Criticism of the system is often an elegant alibi, to downgrade the responsibility of the individual.”
― Niko Paech, All you need is less - Eine Kultur des Genug aus ökonomischer und buddhistischer Sicht

“Des del punt de vista de la Natura, no hi ha drama. En una batalla oberta de l'ésser humà contra la Natura salvatge, aquesta darrera guanyarà. La vida sempre s'obre camí davant totes les adversitats. No estem davant la fi de la vida. Estem davant la perillosa fi del món que coneixem i al qual ens hem adaptat al llarg de les últimes desenes de milers d'anys.”
― Alex Nogués, Severn Cullis-Suzuki: Feu que les vostres accions reflecteixin les vostres paraules

“This planet is a tiny place in the universe. But you can have effects from this minuscule place happening in a different place in the universe.”
― Miki Mitayn, The Conscious Virus

“Central to the Naboland concept is the notion of evidence, manufactured artefacts and displays that mimic museum practice, encouraging the viewer to suspend disbelief and enter into a space where the absurd coexists with the archaeological, the nostalgic with the environmental. While often whimsical in tone, Behrens' work carries with it an increasingly urgent ecological message. Naboland. is a meditation on our fragile relationship with the natural world, and the objects we leave behind.”
― Christina Jansen, 50 Years of Naboland

“My hope is that this glimpse into Bud's journey will inspire readers of all ages to understand we each have a special gift and are part of the great gift exchange of life. In the face of our shared ecological and social challenges, I hope you will feel your own importance and purpose and know that you are needed, that you belong, and that giving your gifts can help to create and nurture a beautiful, sustainable world where all life can flourish.”
― Robin Wall Kimmerer, Bud Finds Her Gift