Ecology quotes

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◆ We never know the worth of water till the well is dry.

- Thomas Fuller100

◆ We don't have to protect the environment, the Second Coming is at hand

- James Watt99

◆ [There] is an increasing sense of what can be called "legal pollution."

- Thomas Ehrlich99

◆ [There] is an increasing sense of what can be called "legal pollution."

- Thomas Ehrlich99

◆ There was the South Ozone National Bank looking as though it had been waiting for me.

- Willie Sutton99

◆ Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end by destroying the earth.

- Albert Schweitzer99

◆ Probably the most visible example of unintended consequences, is what happens every time humans try to change the natural ecology of a place.

- Margaret J Wheatley99

◆ Nature provides a free lunch, but only if we control our appetites.

- William Ruckelshaus99

◆ However, I think the major opposition to ecology has deeper roots than mere economics; ecology threatens widely held values so fundamental that they must be called religious.

- Garrett Hardin99

◆ Continuity is at the heart of conservatism: ecology serves that heart.

- Garrett Hardin99

◆ Archeology and ecology can go hand in hand.

- Carlos Salinas De Gortari99

◆ The first law of ecology is that everything is related to everything else.

- Barry Commoner99

◆ If a product is more expensive than another one, and more sustainable in ecology, consumers will not buy it.

- Jean Claude99

◆ A true conservationist is a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers, but borrowed from his children.

- John James Audubon99

◆ There should be more attention paid to scientific research in the ecology area, and I think that such attention to proper environmental concerns would make the public feel much better about it.

- Thomas R Cech99