Connexions Quotations
Ecology
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The development of civilization and industry in general has always shown itself so active in the destruction of forests that everything that has been done for their conservation and production is completely insignificant in comparison.
- Karl Marx
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The earth is not dying, she is being murdered. And we know who is killing her and we have their names and addresses.
- Utah Phillips
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The first law of ecology is that everything is related to everything else.
- Barry Commoner
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I might seem to have a number of divergent interests – community planning, psychotherapy, education, politics –
but they are all one concern: how to make it possible to grow up as a human being into a culture without losing nature.
I simply refuse to acknowledge that a sensible and honorable community does not exist.
- Paul Goodman
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In nature’s economy the currency is not money, it is life.
- Vandana Shiva
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It’s the little things citizens do. That's what will make the difference. My little thing is planting trees.
- Wangari Maathai
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Let us not, however, flatter ourselves overmuch on account of our human victories over nature.
For each such victory nature takes its revenge.
Each victory, it is true, in the first place brings about the results we expected,
but in the second and third places it is quite different, unforeseen effects which only too often cancel the first.
- Friedrich Engels
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Nature shrinks as capital grows. The growth of the market cannot solve the very crisis it creates.
- Vandana Shiva
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The physical threat posed by climate change represents a crisis that is not only material but also profoundly spiritual at its core because it challenges us to think seriously about the future of the human race and what it means to be a human being.
- Grace Lee Boggs
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Today, local economies are being destroyed by the ‘pluralistic,’ displaced, global economy, which has no respect for what works in a locality. The global economy is built on the principle that one place can be exploited, even destroyed, for the sake of another place.
- Wendell Berry
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We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect.
- Aldo Leopold
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To learn more about Ecology, explore the Connexions Subject Index Ecology page and the Ecosocialism page.
