Ecological Awareness Quotes

#1. God has the final word on your life and His word is grace.

Max Lucado

#2. Nature is all that we think we know plus all that we don't know whether or not we know that we don't know it.

R. Buckminster Fuller

#3. Feelings are not something to which one does or does not have rights.

Stephen Fry

#4. People who look down on other people don't end up being looked up to.

Robert Half

#5. We can make ourselves whole only by accepting our partiality, by living within our limits, by being humans not by trying to be gods.

Wendell Berry

#6. At the deepest level of ecological awareness you are talking about spiritual awareness. Spiritual awareness is an understanding of being imbedded in a larger whole, a cosmic whole, of belonging to the universe.

Fritjof Capra

#7. When the concept of human spirit is understood as the mode of consciousness in which the individual feels connected to the Cosmos as a whole, it becomes clear that ecological awareness is spiritual in its deepest sense.

Fritjof Capra

#8. Birds ... are sensitive indicators of the environment, a sort of "ecological litmus paper," ... The observation and recording of bird populations over time lead inevitably to environmental awareness and can signal impending changes.

Roger Tory Peterson

#9. He who sees a gold bullion more valuable than a tree has surely an intelligence much less than a donkey's!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#10. When the public protests. confronted with some obvious evidence of damaging results of pesticide applications, it is fed little tranquilizers pills of half truth.

Rachel Carson

#11. The possibility of physical and mental collapse is now very real. No sympathy for the Devil, keep that in mind. Buy the ticket, take the ride.

Hunter S. Thompson

#12. Most people who bother to think about plants at all tend to regard them as the mute, immobile furniture of our world - useful enough, and generally attractive, but obviously second-class citizens in the republic of life on Earth.

Stefano Mancuso

#13. Slanders, sir, for the satirical rogue says here that old men have grey beards, that their faces are wrinkled, their eyes purging think amber and plum-tree gum, and that they have a plentiful lack of wit, together with most weak hams.

William Shakespeare

#14. The scientific nature of the ordinary man is to go out and do the best you can.

John Prine

#15. Ecology and spirituality are fundamentally connected, because deep ecological awareness, ultimately, is spiritual awareness.

Fritjof Capra

#16. Cats talk to whomever they please.

Robin Hobb

#17. Ecological awareness expands the context of life; it also enlarges who we are as a person.

Richard J. Borden