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Quotes about ecology
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Ecology is rather like sex -- every new generation likes to think they were the first to discover it. (Danson Ted)
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. (Danson Ted)
As soils are depleted, human health, vitality and intelligence go with them. (Danson Ted)
The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago had they happened to be within the reach of predatory human hands. (Danson Ted)
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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. (Danson Ted)
A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain. (Danson Ted)
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. (Danson Ted)
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. (Danson Ted)
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. (Danson Ted)
Obviously, the answer to oil spills is to paper-train the tankers. (Danson Ted)
Green politics at its worst amounts to a sort of Zen fascism; less extreme, it denounces growth and seeks to stop the world so that we can all get off. (Danson Ted)
We do not inherit the land from our ancestors, we borrow it form our children. (Danson Ted)
The nation that destroys its soil destroys itself. (Danson Ted)
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. (Danson Ted)
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. (Danson Ted)
We cannot cheat on DNA. We cannot get round photosynthesis. We cannot say I am not going to give a damn about phytoplankton. All these tiny mechanisms provide the preconditions of our planetary life. To say we do not care is to say in the most literal sense that we choose death. (Danson Ted)
We need to start looking at having a way of managing the whole ecosystem, because you can't pick away at it piece by piece, you have to truly start being coordinated and managing our resources as a system. We haven't gotten to that point yet. (Danson Ted)
We're not trying to reinvent the wheel; for any environmental organization to claim sole responsibility for any kind of victory is insane, because everybody attacks these problems as a group. (Danson Ted)
We've created coalitions with existing water groups and have helped to give them a voice in Washington; I'm proud that we're very good at that. (Danson Ted)
You have to work with the auto industry, the oil companies, you have to work to develop renewable fuel, whether it's solar or different kinds of fuel or whatever. (Danson Ted)
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