Ecosphere Quotes

#1. The solution, many times more complex and difficult, would be to go beyond our ideas, obviously insane, of war as the way to peace and of permanent damage to the ecosphere as the way to wealth.

Wendell Berry

#2. But the macro-economy is not the Whole. It too is a Part, a part of the larger natural economy, the ecosphere, and its growth does inflict opportunity costs on the finite Whole that must be counted.

Herman E. Daly

#3. I don't accept subtractive models of love, only additive ones. And I believe that in the same way we need species diversity to ensure that the planet can go on, so we need this diversity of affection and diversity of family in order to strengthen the ecosphere of kindness

Andrew Solomon

#4. The environmental crisis is a sign that the ecosphere is now so heavily strained that its continued stability is threatened. It is a warning that we must discover the source of this suicidal drive and master it before it destroys the environment-and ourselves.

Barry Commoner

#5. The atmosphere, the earth, the water and the water cycle - those things are good gifts. The ecosystems, the ecosphere, those are good gifts. We have to regard them as gifts because we couldn't make them. We have to regard them as good gifts because we couldn't live without them.

Wendell Berry

#6. We do not have an ecological crisis. The ecosphere has a human crisis. Our 'story' about our place in the scheme of things has somehow gone awry in the industrial age ...

William E. Rees

#7. I would like to see capital punishment suppressed in all democracies.

Lionel Jospin

#8. If the enemy is a significant part of your body, then how do you destroy it without killing yourself?

Toba Beta

#9. What is marriage but the renunciation of unchastity? The savage does not marry. Man marries because he renounces.

Swami Vivekananda

#10. You staying home all alone on New Year's Eve? Unthinkable. Take my advice ... the countdown should be shared with someone, or it's just another set of numbers passing you by.

E.A. Bucchianeri

#11. Fascism was an emergency makeshift. To view it as something more would be a fatal error.

Ludwig Von Mises

#12. You will have to look a long way before you find a bunch of scum-suckers more greedy, humourless and deserving of death than the suits in the music business.

Terry Pratchett

#13. Urbino laughed. The Contessa, as usual when it came to things Venetian, was probably right.

Edward Sklepowich

#14. Believe in and follow your dreams.

Kristanna Loken

#15. Your hands weren't meant to take peoples lives. They were meant to save them.

Hiromu Arakawa

#16. [Hearing] was distinct from listening, which could only be achieved when hearing was combined with giving a shit.

Jon Stewart

#17. Start first and increase your lead.

Buddy Melges

#18. I want to be a good example for my son. That's the best way to parent - to be the example of what you want to see in them. That's definitely how my parents parented and how my grandparents parented. And it works.

Bryce Dallas Howard