Stephen Jay Gould Quotes About Ecology

Quotes about: Ecology

• We cannot win this battle to save species and environments without forging an emotional bond between ourselves and nature as well - for we will not fight to save what we do not love.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Nature, Fighting, Emotional

  Stephen Jay Gould (1993). “Eight little piggies: reflections in natural history”, Vintage

• Nature is what she is - amoral and persistent.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Nature, Ecology, Persistent

• As a word, ecology has been so debased by recent political usage that many people employ it to identify anything good that happens far from cities and without human interference.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Cities, People, Political

  Stephen Jay Gould (2010). “An Urchin in the Storm: Essays about Books and Ideas”, p.183, W. W. Norton & Company

• It is so hard for an evolutionary biologist to write about extinction caused by human stupidity. Let me then float an unconventional plea, the inverse of the usual argument. The extinction of Partula is unfair to Partula. That is the conventional argument, and I do not challenge its primacy. But we need a humanistic ecology as well, both for the practical reason that people will always touch people more than snails do or can, and for the moral reason that humans are legitimately the measure of all ethical questions for these are our issues, not nature's.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Writing, Issues, Ethical Questions

  "Eight Little Piggies: Reflections in Natural History". Book by Stephen Jay Gould. "Unenchanted Evening", p. 39, 1993.

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