Labels bias our perceptions, thinking, and behavior. A label or story can either separate us from, or connect us to, nature. For our health and happiness, we must critically evaluate our labels and stories by their effects.
Michael J. CohenTag: nature stories psychology health ecology labels bias
That's it on the maps; nature doesn't acknowledge frontiers. Neither can ecology... Where to begin to understand what we've only got a computerspeak label for, ecosystem? Where to decide it begins.
Nadine GordimerTag: ecology boundaries ecosystem
All have their worth and each contributes to the worth of the others.
J.R.R. TolkienTag: ecology worth interdependence
But as the Everglades continued to wither, a few of their colleagues began to wonder if conservation really should mean development more than preservation. These heretics did not believe that God had created man in order to 'improve' or 'redeem' nature; they found God's grace in nature itself.
Michael GrunwaldTag: ecology development ecosystems preservation everglades
The evolution revolution is here. Global sense makes common sense.
Judah FreedTag: politics philosophy environment ecology global philosophy-of-life occupy-wall-street
It shouldn't be the consumer's responsibility to figure out what's cruel and what's kind, what's environmentally destructive and what's sustainable. Cruel and destructive food products should be illegal. We don't need the option of buying children's toys made with lead paint, or aerosols with chlorofluorocarbons, or medicines with unlabeled side effects. And we don't need the option of buying factory-farmed animals.
Jonathan Safran FoerTag: animal-rights capitalism animal-cruelty vegan vegetarian ecology sustainability
The dominant culture eats entire biomes. No, that is too generous, because eating implies a natural biological relationship. This culture doesn't just consume ecosystems, it obliterates them, it murders them, one after another. This culture is an ecological serial killer, and it's long past time for us to recognize the pattern.
Aric McBayTag: environment ecology resistance
The great challenge of the twenty-first century is to raise people everywhere to a decent standard of living while preserving as much of the rest of life as possible.
Edward O. WilsonTag: ecology sustainability preservation 21st-century-authors 21st-century
Luxury as beauty" has nothing to do with a particular place or an object's price tag. It is seeing with eyes for beauty. Once we cut the automatic but learned connection between buying stuff and pleasure, we can actively cultivate new connections - a sense of freedom as we shed draining habits and discover new pleasures in seeing and creating beauty all around us.
Frances Moore LappéTag: environmentalism ecology economy
Man has the lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end up destroying the earth.
Albert SchweitzerTag: ecology self-destruction
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