Quotes of: Ecological Keyword

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

Ecology and Experience: Reflections from a Human Ecological Perspective

This world by itself is a wonder.

Ecology and Experience: Reflections from a Human Ecological Perspective

My passion for human ecology was not a drive for closure—but rather the joy of endless openings and newfound connections. There is no final goal or perfect completion, only the expanding experience of being alive.

Ecology and Experience: Reflections from a Human Ecological Perspective

Most intellectual training focuses on analytical skills. Whether in literary criticism or scientific investigation, the academic mind is best at taking things apart. The complementary arts of integration are far less well developed. This problem is a...

Ecology and Experience: Reflections from a Human Ecological Perspective

How our attitudes are shaped and defended may be more changeable than we realize.

Ecology and Experience: Reflections from a Human Ecological Perspective

Death is universal. The rituals associated with it, however, vary substantially—and are greatly influenced by their religious and cultural context.

Ecology and Experience: Reflections from a Human Ecological Perspective

One of the most remarkable contributions of humans to the world is our capacity for ideas.

Ecology and Experience: Reflections from a Human Ecological Perspective

The inventions of microscopy and telescopy shattered the boundaries of ordinary human perception and fueled the scientific revolution.

Ecology and Experience: Reflections from a Human Ecological Perspective

Unlike the clonal longevity of asexual organisms, sexually reproduced plants and animals usually have briefer, individual life cycles. In short, the enormous diversity afforded by the evolutionary invention of sexual reproduction came with a price—...

Ecology and Experience: Reflections from a Human Ecological Perspective

The average American child, by age eighteen, is estimated to have seen eighteen thousand murders and two hundred thousand acts of violence on television. The “death play” of popular video games is accelerating these numbers to ever-higher levels.

Ecology and Experience: Reflections from a Human Ecological Perspective

Sometimes, when we are far from clocks and schedules, we can still recapture a lost sense of place-based time. On a relaxing camping trip or a long day outdoors, perhaps, we can slip back into the rhythm of the sun.

Ecology and Experience: Reflections from a Human Ecological Perspective

It may be said, in broad-brush terms, that the primary purpose of life is the continuation of life. A deep program for survival and reproduction underwrites the complex cycles of life, in which death is the grand equalizer. There is, however, a pecul...

Ecology and Experience: Reflections from a Human Ecological Perspective

The pure power of a life can manifest as beatitude, or as an unspeakable, sheer violence...

Vibrant Matter: A Political Ecology of Things

No one is an outside observer of nature, We're defined by our environment and our interaction with that environment -- by our ecology. And that ecology is necessarily relative, historical and empirical.

Life

One never sleepwalks through grizzlyland, dreaming of other places to be.

Where the Wild Things Were: Life, Death, and Ecological Wreckage in a Land of Vanishing Predators

Well I think on a simple ecological level that the diversity of this planet is important for our survival, that all of our different cultures, people are important to the health of the whole the same way that a species of animal should be saved and a...

Richard Gere

However, I think the major opposition to ecology has deeper roots than mere economics; ecology threatens widely held values so fundamental that they must be called religious.

Garrett Hardin

The border between personal and transpersonal experience is a complex region. It is a territory often filled with spiritual and religious views. Within psychology it was a significant preoccupation of William James, Carl Jung, Abraham Maslow, and man...

Ecology and Experience: Reflections from a Human Ecological Perspective

We can believe in the future and work to achieve it and preserve it, or we can whirl blindly on, behaving as if one day there will be no children to inherit our legacy. The choice is ours; the earth is in balance.

Earth in the Balance: Ecology and the Human Spirit

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.

Too Smart for Our Own Good: The Ecological Predicament of Humankind

The re-establishment of an ecological balance depends on the ability of society to counteract the progressive materialization of values. The ecological balance cannot be re-established unless we recognize again that only persons have ends and only pe...

Ivan Illich