Ecology

Quotes regarding ecology:

Sourced

• A Healthy Ecology is the Basis for a Healthy Economy
  • Claudine Schneider, U.S. Representative in The Green Lifestyle Handbook.

• To halt the decline of an ecosystem, it is necessary to think like an ecosystem.
  • Douglas P. Wheeler, EPA Journal, September-October 1990

• The thing the ecologically illiterate don't realize about an ecosystem is that it's a system. A system! A system maintains a certain fluid stability that can be destroyed by a misstep in just one niche. A system has order, a flowing from point to point. If something dams the flow, order collapses. The untrained miss the collapse until too late. That's why the highest function of ecology is the understanding of consequences.
  • Frank Herbert, in Dune ("Appendix I: The Ecology of Dune")

• Man has been endowed with reason, with the power to create, so that he can add to what he's been given. But up to now he hasn't been a creator, only a destroyer. Forests keep disappearing, rivers dry up, wild life's become extinct, the climate's ruined and the land grows poorer and uglier every day.
  • Anton Chekhov, Uncle Vanya, 1897

Unsourced

• Waste is a tax on the whole people.
  • Albert W. Atwood

• Help Woodsy spread the word,
  

Never be a dirty bird,

No matter where you go,

You can let some people know.

Give a hoot, don't pollute,

Never be a dirty bird,

In the city or in the woods,

Help keep America looking good.

• U.S. Forest Service, Woodsy Owl campaign

• Every day is Earth Day.
  • Author unknown

See also

• Environment
• Conservation