ecology

scientific study of the relationships between living organisms

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Also known as ecological science

Notable quotes

“If we recognise that every ecosystem can also be viewed as a food web, we can think of it as a circular, interlacing nexus of plant animal relationships (rather than a stratified pyramid with man at the apex)... Each species, be it a form of bacteria or deer, is knitted together in a network of interdependence, however indirect the links may be.”
— Murray Bookchin, The Ecology of Freedom (1982).
“The disruption of the world's ecological systems — from the rise of global warming and the consequent damage to our climate balance, to the loss of living species and the depletion of ocean fisheries and forest habitats — continues at a frightening rate. Practically every day, it becomes clearer to us that must act now to protect our Earth, while preserving and creating jobs for our people.”
— Al Gore, Address to the International Press Institute, Boston, Massachusetts (30 April 2000.
“Ecology is a dirty seven-letter word to many people. They are like heavy sleepers refusing to be aroused. "Leave me alone! It's not time to get up yet!"”
— Frank Herbert, "Introduction" to New World or No World (1970), an anthology of writing on environmentalism.
“If there are favourable habitats and favorable forms of association for animals and plants, as ecology demonstrates, why not for men? If each particular natural environment has has its own balance; is there not perhaps an equivalent of this in culture?”
— Lewis Mumford, The Culture of Cities, Secker & Warburg, 1938.
“A Healthy Ecology is the Basis for a Healthy Economy”
— Claudine Schneider, U.S. Representative in The Green Lifestyle Handbook.
“In recent years it has become impossible to talk about man's relation to nature without referring to "ecology"...such leading scientists in this area as Rachel Carson, Barry Commoner, Eugene Odum, Paul Ehrlich and others, have become our new delphic voices...so influential has their branch of science become that our time might well be called the "Age of Ecology".”
— Donald Worster, Nature's Economy, Cambridge University Press, 1994.

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Notable quotes

“If we recognise that every ecosystem can also be viewed as a food web, we can think of it as a circular, interlacing nexus of plant animal relationships (rather than a stratified pyramid with man at the apex)... Each species, be it a form of bacteria or deer, is knitted together in a network of interdependence, however indirect the links may be.”
— Murray Bookchin, The Ecology of Freedom (1982).
“The disruption of the world's ecological systems — from the rise of global warming and the consequent damage to our climate balance, to the loss of living species and the depletion of ocean fisheries and forest habitats — continues at a frightening rate. Practically every day, it becomes clearer to us that must act now to protect our Earth, while preserving and creating jobs for our people.”
— Al Gore, Address to the International Press Institute, Boston, Massachusetts (30 April 2000.
“Ecology is a dirty seven-letter word to many people. They are like heavy sleepers refusing to be aroused. "Leave me alone! It's not time to get up yet!"”
— Frank Herbert, "Introduction" to New World or No World (1970), an anthology of writing on environmentalism.
“If there are favourable habitats and favorable forms of association for animals and plants, as ecology demonstrates, why not for men? If each particular natural environment has has its own balance; is there not perhaps an equivalent of this in culture?”
— Lewis Mumford, The Culture of Cities, Secker & Warburg, 1938.
“A Healthy Ecology is the Basis for a Healthy Economy”
— Claudine Schneider, U.S. Representative in The Green Lifestyle Handbook.
“In recent years it has become impossible to talk about man's relation to nature without referring to "ecology"...such leading scientists in this area as Rachel Carson, Barry Commoner, Eugene Odum, Paul Ehrlich and others, have become our new delphic voices...so influential has their branch of science become that our time might well be called the "Age of Ecology".”
— Donald Worster, Nature's Economy, Cambridge University Press, 1994.

Quotes via Wikiquote (CC BY-SA), each with its original source.