The world as first seen by the child becomes his lifelong standard of excellent, mindless of the fact he is admiring the ruins of his parents.
Advertising design, in persuading people to buy things they don`t need, with money they don`t have, in order to impress others who don`t care, is probably the phoniest field in existence today.
The thing the ecologically illiterate don't realise about an ecosystem is that it's a system. A system! A system maintains a certain fluid stability that can be destroyed by a misstep in just one niche. A system has order, flowing from point to point...
If the children and youth of a nation are afforded opportunity to develop their capacities to the fullest, if they are given the k nowledge to understand the world and the wisdom to change it, then the prospects for the future are bright. In contrast...
Capitalism’s grow-or-die imperative stands radically at odds with ecology’s imperative of interdependence and limit. The two imperatives can no longer coexist with each other; nor can any society founded on the myth that they can be reconciled ho...
Archeology and ecology can go hand in hand.
We humans have a questionable track record in our dealings with the environment. Recent studies show that complete restoration of Florida’s Everglades could take approximately 30 years and 7.8 billion dollars. There’s a lot of work to be done–b...
When you pursue great flavor, you also pursue great ecology.
Continuity is at the heart of conservatism: ecology serves that heart.
We are condemned to be modern. We can’t escape the facts of our history or of living in an age dominated by instrumental rationality, even as we look for ways out of it... But it has become our historic responsibility to acknowledge the continuing ...
A life thus names a restless activeness, a destructive-creative force-presence that does not coincide fully with any specific body. A life tear the fabric of the actual without ever coming fully 'out' in a person, place, or thing. A life points to .....
Only within the 20th Century has biological thought been focused on ecology, or the relation of the living creature to its environment. Awareness of ecological relationships is — or should be — the basis of modern conservation programs, for it is...
All I ask is that we compare human consciousness with spirochete ecology.
Design, if it is to be ecologically responsible and socially responsive, must be revolutionary and radical.
The tragedy is that there is so much more incentive - money - to destroy the ecology than there is to preserve it.
The Industrial Age is not sustainable. It's not sustainable in ecological terms, and it's not sustainable in human terms.
The moment the angel enters a life it enters an environment. We are ecological from day one.
One of the penalties of an ecological education is that one lives alone in a world of wounds.
The first law of ecology is that everything is related to everything else.
That land is a community is the basic concept of ecology, but that land is to be loved and respected is an extension of ethics.
The hierarchy of relations, from the molecular structure of carbon to the equilibrium of the species and ecological whole, will perhaps be the leading idea of the future.
