“We as a culture are forgetting that we are actually natural organisms and that we have this very, very deep connection and contact with nature. You can’t divorce civilization from nature - we totally depend on it.” CultureNaturalForgetDependsCivilizationConnectionsDivorceContactOrganismsVery DeepDeep Connections Author:James Balog
“The living environment is the biosphere, the thin layer around the world of living organisms. We're part of that. Our existence is dependent on it in ways that people haven't even begun to appreciate. Our existence depends not just on its existence, but its stability and its richness.” PeopleWorldWayExistenceEnvironmentHavensDependsAppreciateAround The WorldDependentStabilityLayersOrganismsRichnessLiving OrganismsBiosphere Author:E. O. Wilson
“We don't even know what species are out there, for the most part, particularly when you get down to the microbes and very small invertebrates. They make up the mass of the organisms around us, including the soil we depend on, the soil of cornfields as well as hardwood forests. We haven't taken ecology to the point where we can even make a crude prediction of what's going to happen when we've reduced the living world down to a certain level.” KnowsWorldWellsHappensCertainLevelsTakenHavensDependsMassSpeciesIncludingForestsSoilOrganismsEcologyPredictionsCrudeMicrobesHardwoodInvertebrates Author:E. O. Wilson
“There is part of a structure in which every species is related to every other species. And they're built up on species, like a pyramid. The simpler cell organisms, and then the more complicated ones, all the way up to the mammals and birds and so forth. We call it 'developing upward'... The whole thing depends on every part of it. And we're taking out the stones from the pyramid.” WayWholeDependsBirdBuiltStonesStructureSpeciesComplicatedCellsDevelopingRelatedOrganismsPyramidsMammals Author:W. S. Merwin
“The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increases its energy, and attains the fulfillment of its destiny.” ActionEnergyBusinessDestinyHistoryConditionsHealthDependsIncreaseChiefsFulfillmentFacultyAmerican DreamOrganismsVitalityVigor Author:Colin Powell