Social Ecology Quotes

#1. If we don't preserve forest habitat for spotted owls, then soon we won't have trees to refresh the air we breathe. And we're realizing that this applies to social ecology, as well.

Sam Keen

#2. The ecological principle of unity in diversity grades into a richly mediated social principle; hence my use of the term social ecology.

Murray Bookchin

#3. When we must pay the true price for the depletion of nature's gifts, materials will become more precious to us, and economic logic will reinforce, and not contradict, our heart's desire to treat the world with reverence and, when we receive nature's gifts, to use them well.

Charles Eisenstein

#4. Raise your children to love and embrace others. Tell them they are beautiful; they may grow up to be stars one day, and "beautiful" will never mean as much in a magazine as it will coming from you.

Kaiden Blake

#5. You don't get paid a whole lot for theatre, but you know, I feel more like, 'Where could I buy this experience, and how much would it cost? Who else would give me this kind of focus and put me in a room with this kind of talent?'

Dennis Christopher

#6. The Earth was singing her revolution. She was calling her brave men and women to her defense.

Rivera Sun

#7. Men have been in charge of according value to literature, and ... they have found the contributions of their own sex immeasurably superior.

Dale Spender

#8. We can and must respond creatively to the triple crisis and simultaneously overcome dehumanization, economic inequality, and, ecological catastrophe.

Vandana Shiva

#9. The social phenomenon of economic growth is, thanks to the principle of the conservation of matter, nothing other than the physical phenomenon of increasing resource depletion.

Craig Dilworth

#10. Good painter imitates nature, bad ones spews it up.

Miguel De Cervantes

#11. It's been said that no man is a hero to a newspaperman, and I spent too many years as an ink-stained wretch.

David Simon

#12. I don't have a schedule, but I can write for hours non-stop. If I'm drafting a book, I try and do a chapter a day. I dislike first drafts. Revision is a lot more fun, but it takes years.

Sefi Atta

#13. Our new technologies, combined with our numbers, have made us, collectively, a force of nature

Al Gore

#14. Living democracy grows like a tree, from the bottom up.

Vandana Shiva

#15. The devil follows me day and night because he is afraid to be alone.

Francis Picabia

#16. What force is yanking at our sleeves? This process of self-revision and self-correction is so common we don't even notice. But it's a miracle.

Steven Pressfield

#17. Next to a shot of some good, habit-forming narcotic, there is nothing like travelling alone as a 'builder-upper.

Robert Benchley

#18. Using information about animal behavior to justify social or political ideology is wrong . . . People need to be able to make decisions about their lives without having to worry about keeping up with the bonobos.

Marlene Zuk

#19. There was no question that Andrew was the most fantastic bloke she had the good fortune to go out with.

Chris Manby

#20. Is it a crime to want to be good? she cried

Luis Alberto Urrea

#21. I've learned that success comes in a very prickly package. Whether you choose to accept it or not is up to you.

Sandra Bullock

#22. You have to realize there are other people, other economies, governments, cultures, religions, and destinies going on at the same time as yours. You have to widen the scope of your lens and start seeing more.

Henry Rollins

#23. If the long arc of history bends toward social justice, it also bends toward environmental justice and ecological sanity.

David Jaber

#24. Social justice has to do with issues such as poverty, inequality, war, racism, sexism, abortion, and lack of concern for ecology because what lies at the root at each of these is not so much someone's private sin but rather a huge, blind system that is inherently unfair.

Ronald Rolheiser