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Ecological Quotes

In the global marketplace of the future the price of every product will tell the ecological truth Picture Quote #1

Trees are right at the heart of all the necessary debates: ecological, social, economic, political, moral, religious Picture Quote #1

A society that could heal the dismembered world would recognize the inherent value of each person and of the plant, animal and elemental life that makes up the earth’s living body; it would offer real protection, encourage free expression, and reestablish an ecological balance to be biologically and economically sustainable. Its underlying metaphor would be mystery, the sense of wonder at all that is beyond us and around us, at the forces that sustain our lives and the intricate complexity and beauty of their dance Picture Quote #1

As long as hierarchy persists, as long as domination organises humanity around a system of elites, the project of dominating nature will continue to exist and inevitably lead our planet to ecological extinction Picture Quote #1

I’m no shrinking violet. I played hockey until half my teeth were knocked down my throat. And I’m extremely competitive on a tennis court... But that experience at the slaughterhouse overwhelmed me. When I walked out of there, I knew I would never again harm an animal! I knew all the physiological, economic, and ecological arguments supporting vegetarianism, but it was firsthand experience of man’s cruelty to animals that laid the real groundwork for my commitment to vegetarianism Picture Quote #1

Pervasive depletion and overuse of water supplies, the high capital cost of new large water projects, rising pumping costs and worsening ecological damage call for a shift in the way water is valued, used and managed Picture Quote #1

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Wars don’t happen on battlefields; they go on happening in people’s hearts for generations and generations, and the ecological damage is unfathomably complex and dire Picture Quote #1

The moment the angel enters a life it enters an environment. We are ecological from day one Picture Quote #1

Modern society will find no solution to the ecological problem unless it takes a serious look at its lifestyle. In many parts of the world society is given to instant gratification and consumerism while remaining indifferent to the damage which these attitudes cause. Simplicity, moderation and discipline, as well as a spirit of sacrifice, must become part of everyday life, lest all suffer the negative consequences of the careless habits of a few Picture Quote #1

Public art existed all along, but ecological art just naturally grew out of my thinking and writings in that area for years. I didn’t get involved in it; I started what then became a movement Picture Quote #1

Our politics and science have never mastered the fact that people need more than to understand their obligation to one another and to the earth; they need also the feeling of such obligation, and the feeling can come only within the patterns of familiarity. A nation of urban nomads, such as we have become, may simply be unable to be enough disturbed by its destruction of the ecological health of the land, because the people’s dependence on the land, though it has been expounded to them over and over again in general terms, is not immediate to their feelings Picture Quote #1

A token of ecological awareness in a society devoted to self destruction and waste but unwilling to acknowledge its indulgent ways Picture Quote #1

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I often plagiarize from myself. I like to think of this as ecological journalism: I recycle Picture Quote #1

The new markets that arise from ecological constraints will dominate the 21st century economy, and so will markets for knowledge Picture Quote #1

The ecological principle in agriculture is to connect the genius of the place, to fit the farming to the farm Picture Quote #1

Food consists not just in piles of chemicals; it also comprises a set of social and ecological relationships, reaching back to the land and outward to other people Picture Quote #1

Every time we consume meat, eggs or dairy foods, we contribute to ecological devastation and the wasteful misuse of resources on a global scale Picture Quote #1

One of the penalties of an ecological education is that one lives alone in a world of wounds Picture Quote #1

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The seriousness of ecological degradation lays bare the depth of man’s moral crisis... Simplicity, moderation, and discipline as well as the spirit of sacrifice must become a part of everyday life Picture Quote #1

We think there is an ecological problem, but the real problem is irresponsible growth of human population Picture Quote #1

The industrial processes in use today were developed at a time when no one had to consider what the environmental impact was. Who cared? But making ecological concerns matter to a company’s bottom line will help it do the research and development that will reinvent everything we buy Picture Quote #1

One of the penalties of an ecological education is that one lives alone in a world of wounds. Much of the damage inflicted on land is quite invisible to laymen. An ecologist must either harden his shell and make believe that the consequences of science are none of his business, or he must be the doctor who sees the marks of death in a community that believes itself well and does not want to be told otherwise Picture Quote #1

The ecological crisis shows the urgency of a solidarity which embraces time and space... A greater sense of intergenerational solidarity is urgently needed. Future generations cannot be saddled with the cost of our use of common environmental resources Picture Quote #1

The dramatic threat of ecological breakdown is teaching us the extent to which greed and selfishness are contrary to the order of creation... A given culture reveals its understanding of life through the choices it makes in production and consumption... a great deal of educational and cultural work is urgently needed, including the education of consumers in the responsible use of their power of choice Picture Quote #1

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We’re the ones who can make a difference. If we lead lives where we consciously leave the lightest possible ecological footprints, if we buy the things that are ethical for us to buy and don’t buy the things that are not, we can change the world overnight Picture Quote #1

We in the industrialized world make a greater difference because our ecological footprint, our impact on the condition of the environment, is 40 to 50 times larger than that of people in the developing world Picture Quote #1

The immediate source of ecological crisis is capitalism... Capitalism is a cancer in the biosphere... I believe the color of radicalism today is not red, but green Picture Quote #1

Success comes because you have found your ecological niche and can flourish by doing your own valuable thing Picture Quote #1

Socialism failed because it couldn’t tell the economic truth. Capitalism may fail because it couldn’t tell the ecological truth Picture Quote #1

In its broadest ecological context, economic development is the development of more intensive ways of exploiting the natural environment Picture Quote #1

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In the global marketplace of the future the price of every product will tell the ecological truth (Ecological Quotes) Trees are right at the heart of all the necessary debates: ecological, social, economic, political, moral, religious (Ecological Quotes) A society that could heal the dismembered world would recognize the inherent value of each person and of the plant, animal and elemental life that makes up the earth’s living body; it would offer real protection, encourage free expression, and reestablish an ecological balance to be biologically and economically sustainable. Its underlying metaphor would be mystery, the sense of wonder at all that is beyond us and around us, at the forces that sustain our lives and the intricate complexity and beauty of their dance (Ecological Quotes) As long as hierarchy persists, as long as domination organises humanity around a system of elites, the project of dominating nature will continue to exist and inevitably lead our planet to ecological extinction (Ecological Quotes) I’m no shrinking violet. I played hockey until half my teeth were knocked down my throat. And I’m extremely competitive on a tennis court... But that experience at the slaughterhouse overwhelmed me. When I walked out of there, I knew I would never again harm an animal! I knew all the physiological, economic, and ecological arguments supporting vegetarianism, but it was firsthand experience of man’s cruelty to animals that laid the real groundwork for my commitment to vegetarianism (Ecological Quotes) Pervasive depletion and overuse of water supplies, the high capital cost of new large water projects, rising pumping costs and worsening ecological damage call for a shift in the way water is valued, used and managed (Ecological Quotes) Wars don’t happen on battlefields; they go on happening in people’s hearts for generations and generations, and the ecological damage is unfathomably complex and dire (Ecological Quotes) The moment the angel enters a life it enters an environment. We are ecological from day one (Ecological Quotes) Modern society will find no solution to the ecological problem unless it takes a serious look at its lifestyle. In many parts of the world society is given to instant gratification and consumerism while remaining indifferent to the damage which these attitudes cause. Simplicity, moderation and discipline, as well as a spirit of sacrifice, must become part of everyday life, lest all suffer the negative consequences of the careless habits of a few (Ecological Quotes) Public art existed all along, but ecological art just naturally grew out of my thinking and writings in that area for years. I didn’t get involved in it; I started what then became a movement (Ecological Quotes) Our politics and science have never mastered the fact that people need more than to understand their obligation to one another and to the earth; they need also the feeling of such obligation, and the feeling can come only within the patterns of familiarity. A nation of urban nomads, such as we have become, may simply be unable to be enough disturbed by its destruction of the ecological health of the land, because the people’s dependence on the land, though it has been expounded to them over and over again in general terms, is not immediate to their feelings (Ecological Quotes) A token of ecological awareness in a society devoted to self destruction and waste but unwilling to acknowledge its indulgent ways (Ecological Quotes) I often plagiarize from myself. I like to think of this as ecological journalism: I recycle (Ecological Quotes) The new markets that arise from ecological constraints will dominate the 21st century economy, and so will markets for knowledge (Ecological Quotes) The ecological principle in agriculture is to connect the genius of the place, to fit the farming to the farm (Ecological Quotes) Food consists not just in piles of chemicals; it also comprises a set of social and ecological relationships, reaching back to the land and outward to other people (Ecological Quotes) Every time we consume meat, eggs or dairy foods, we contribute to ecological devastation and the wasteful misuse of resources on a global scale (Ecological Quotes) One of the penalties of an ecological education is that one lives alone in a world of wounds (Ecological Quotes) The seriousness of ecological degradation lays bare the depth of man’s moral crisis... Simplicity, moderation, and discipline as well as the spirit of sacrifice must become a part of everyday life (Ecological Quotes) We think there is an ecological problem, but the real problem is irresponsible growth of human population (Ecological Quotes) The industrial processes in use today were developed at a time when no one had to consider what the environmental impact was. Who cared? But making ecological concerns matter to a company’s bottom line will help it do the research and development that will reinvent everything we buy (Ecological Quotes) One of the penalties of an ecological education is that one lives alone in a world of wounds. Much of the damage inflicted on land is quite invisible to laymen. An ecologist must either harden his shell and make believe that the consequences of science are none of his business, or he must be the doctor who sees the marks of death in a community that believes itself well and does not want to be told otherwise (Ecological Quotes) The ecological crisis shows the urgency of a solidarity which embraces time and space... A greater sense of intergenerational solidarity is urgently needed. Future generations cannot be saddled with the cost of our use of common environmental resources (Ecological Quotes) The dramatic threat of ecological breakdown is teaching us the extent to which greed and selfishness are contrary to the order of creation... A given culture reveals its understanding of life through the choices it makes in production and consumption... a great deal of educational and cultural work is urgently needed, including the education of consumers in the responsible use of their power of choice (Ecological Quotes) We’re the ones who can make a difference. If we lead lives where we consciously leave the lightest possible ecological footprints, if we buy the things that are ethical for us to buy and don’t buy the things that are not, we can change the world overnight (Ecological Quotes) We in the industrialized world make a greater difference because our ecological footprint, our impact on the condition of the environment, is 40 to 50 times larger than that of people in the developing world (Ecological Quotes) The immediate source of ecological crisis is capitalism... Capitalism is a cancer in the biosphere... I believe the color of radicalism today is not red, but green (Ecological Quotes) Success comes because you have found your ecological niche and can flourish by doing your own valuable thing (Ecological Quotes) Socialism failed because it couldn’t tell the economic truth. Capitalism may fail because it couldn’t tell the ecological truth (Ecological Quotes) In its broadest ecological context, economic development is the development of more intensive ways of exploiting the natural environment (Ecological Quotes)

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