Does a population have informed consent when that population is not ta — Frank Herbert

"Ecology is a dirty seven-letter word to many people. They are like heavy sleepers refusing to be aroused. "Leave me alone! Its not time to get up yet!"

"[S]omebody said that ecology is the science of understanding consequences."

"There is no real ending. Its just the place where you stop the story."

"There are no uncharted isles here where we can run away to sunshine and sparkling white beaches. We have just this one world, and on these pages were beginning to get a feeling for the gigantic physical project confronting us. Our awakening is touched with dismay; we must come to terms with this world or it will terminate us. When we speak of defending the environment, we are speaking of defending our own lives."

"I’ve heard you say, Bell, that logic is good for playing pyramid chess but often too slow for needs of survival."

"In the beginning I was just as ready as anyone to fall into step, to seek out the guilty and to punish the sinners, even to become a leader. Nothing, I felt, would give me more gratification than riding the steed of yellow journalism into crusade, doing the book that would right the old wrongs. Reevaluation raised haunting questions.I now believe that evolution, or deevolution, never ends short of death, that no society has ever achieved an absolute pinnacle, that all humans are not created equal. In fact, I believe attempts to create some abstract equalization create a morass of injustices that rebound on the equalizers. Equal justice and equal opportunity are ideals we should seek, but we should recognize that humans administer the ideals and that humans do not have equal ability."