Ecology

(226 votes)   Guns have metamorphosed into cameras in this earnest comedy, the ecology safari, because nature has ceased to be what it always had been -- what people needed protection from. Now nature tamed, endangered, mortal -- needs to be protected from people.

Susan Sontag
1933-, American Essayist

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(219 votes)   Ecology is rather like sex -- every new generation likes to think they were the first to discover it.

Michael Allaby
American Actor

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(200 votes)   It's a morbid observation, but if every one on earth just stopped breathing for an hour, the greenhouse effect would no longer be a problem.

Jerry Adler
American Actor

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(118 votes)   We do not inherit the land from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children.

Native American Proverbs
Sayings of Native American Origin

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(101 votes)   A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.

William James
1842-1910, American Psychologist, Professor, Author

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(99 votes)   It is our task in our time and in our generation to hand down undiminished to those who come after us, as was handed down to us by those who went before, the natural wealth and beauty which is ours.

John F. Kennedy
1917-1963, Thirty-fifth President of the USA

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(93 votes)   And he gave it for his opinion, that whoever could make two ears of corn, or two blades of grass, to grow upon a spot of ground where only one grew before, would deserve better of mankind, and do more essential service to his country, than the whole race of politicians put together.

Jonathan Swift
1667-1745, Anglo-Irish Satirist

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(93 votes)   The current collapse of industrial society may well be the planet's way of avoiding a larger death.

Morris Bergman

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(86 votes)   The nation that destroys its soil destroys itself.

Franklin D. Roosevelt
1882-1945, Thirty-second President of the USA

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(74 votes)   Obviously, the answer to oil spills is to paper-train the tankers.

Ralph Nader
1934-, American Lawyer, Consumer Activist

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(74 votes)   The universe is like a safe to which there is a combination. Bit the combination is locked up in the safe.

Peter De Vries
1910-, American Author

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(69 votes)   O if we but knew what we do when we delve or hew -- hack and rack the growing green! Since country is so tender to touch, her being so slender, that like this sleek and seeing ball but a prick will make no eye at all, where we, even where we mean to mend her we end her, when we hew or delve: after-comers cannot guess the beauty been.

Gerard Manley Hopkins
1844-1889, British Poet

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(63 votes)   How to be green? Many people have asked us this important question. It's really very simple and requires no expert knowledge or complex skills. Here's the answer. Consume less. Share more. Enjoy life.

Derek Wall

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(61 votes)   Humanity has passed through a long history of one-sidedness and of a social condition that has always contained the potential of destruction, despite its creative achievements in technology. The great project of our time must be to open the other eye: to see all-sidedly and wholly, to heal and transcend the cleavage between humanity and nature that came with early wisdom.

Murray Bookchin
1941-, American Ecologist

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(56 votes)   As soils are depleted, human health, vitality and intelligence go with them.

Louis Bromfield
1896-1956, American Author

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