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“When we reconnect with nature, we will be restore ourselves.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!

“I was struck, and not for the first time, by how much easier it is to ruin an ecosystem than to run one.”
― Elizabeth Kolbert, Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future

“Similar to living organisms, these living BMaaS (Business Models-as-a-System) have an innate capacity to change creatively within their ecosystems, as they emerge and unfold. Change is expected, organic, and constant.”
― Roger Spitz, The Definitive Guide to Thriving on Disruption: Volume IV - Disruption as a Springboard to Value Creation

“Economies and ecosystems have a lot in common â€� actually, they're really the same thing.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, CEO of Mayflower-Plymouth

“An economic ecosystem that disrespects natural ecosystems will be disrespected by natural ecosystems.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, Principles of a Permaculture Economy

“Wolves directly affect the entire ecosystem, not just moose populations, their main prey, because less moose equals more tree growth”
― Rolf Peterson

“The Everglades was the only place on earth where alligators (broad snout, fresh water, darker skin) and crocodiles (pointy snout, salt water, toothy grin) lived side by side. It was the only home of the Everglades mink, Okeechobee gourd, and Big Cypress fox squirrel. It had carnivorous plants, amphibious birds, oysters that grew on trees, cacti that grew in water, lizards that changed colors, and fish that changed genders. It had 1,100 species of trees and plants, 350 birds, and 52 varieties of porcelain-smooth, candy-striped tree snails. It had bottlenose dolphins, marsh rabbits, ghost orchids, moray eels, bald eagles, and countless other species that didn't seem to belong on the same continent, much less in the same ecosystem.”
― Michael Grunwald, The Swamp: The Everglades, Florida, and the Politics of Paradise

“In a world where very few people care if you live or die, there is a light that shines in the distance. It has a name that they call hope and it carries with it people that never stop caring. They learned long ago that extending mercy was not a choice, but a place where God lives.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“But as the Everglades continued to wither, a few of their colleagues began to wonder if conservation really should mean development more than preservation. These heretics did not believe that God had created man in order to 'improve' or 'redeem' nature; they found God's grace in nature itself.”
― Michael Grunwald

“As soon as you stop thinking about it, the deep can so easily vanish out of mind â€� more so than that other great distant realm, outer space. The deep has no stars at night to remind us it is there, and no moon shining down. And yet, this hidden place reaches into our daily lives and makes vital things happen without our knowing. The deep, quite simply makes this planet habitable.”
― Helen Scales, The Brilliant Abyss

“All life naturally strives for growth. It is a natural phenomena. There are no conceivable limits to our growth. Once one ecosystem is outgrown, there is always a larger more comprehensive ecosystem to grow into. This should continue endlessly and exponentially.”
― Hendrith Smith, The Wealth Reference Guide: An American Classic

“Ecosystems are complex networks. They can be remarkably resilient under stress, but when certain key nodes begin to fail, knock-on effects reverberate through the web of life. This is how mass extinction events unfolded in the past. It’s not the external shock that does it â€� the meteor or the volcano: it’s the cascade of internal failures that follows. It can be difficult to predict how this kind of thing plays out. Things like tipping points and feedback loops make everything much riskier than it otherwise might be. This is what makes climate breakdown so concerning.”
― Jason Hickel, Less Is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World

“The more numerous we become, the more crowded, the more interconnected, the more demanding of resources, the more invasive of wild places, the more disruptive of richly diverse ecosystems—the closer we stand to the epidemic threshold for any new virus that probes us as a possible route to greater evolutionary success.”
― David Quammen, Breathless: The Scientific Race to Defeat a Deadly Virus

“Permaculture economics prioritizes fairness, justice, and equity, like nature's balanced ecosystems.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr.

“We have a duty to care for the environment.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!

“Healthy ecosystems promote healthy life.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!

“We can only predict the future ecological changes, by emergence of the past into the present.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!

“Overall, then, we will view cas [complex adaptive systems] as systems composed of interacting agents described in terms of rules. These agents adapt by changing their rules as experience accumulates. In cas, a major part of the environment of any given adaptive agent consists of other adaptive agents, so that a portion of any agent's efforts at adaptation is spent adapting to other adaptive agents. This one feature is a major source of the complex temporal patterns that cas generate. To understand cas we must understand these ever-changing patterns.”
― John H. Holland, Hidden Order: How Adaptation Builds Complexity

“Cities are humans' shoddy attempts at making ecosystems.”
― Elliot Connor, Human Nature: How to be a Better Animal

“The problem with economic growth isn’t just that we might run out of resources at some point. The problem is that it progressively degrades the integrity of ecosystems.”
― Jason Hickel, Less Is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World

“Our Earth is a plentiful place â€� it generates an abundance of forests and fish and crops every year. It is also remarkably resilient, as it not only reproduces these things as we use them, it absorbs and processes our waste too: our emissions, our chemical run-off, and so on. But in order for the planet to maintain these capacities, we can only take as much as its ecosystems can regenerate, and pollute no more than the atmosphere and rivers and soil can safely absorb. If we overshoot these boundaries, ecosystems begin to break down and the web of life begins to unravel. That’s what’s happening right now.”
― Jason Hickel, Less Is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World

“Human welfare depends on healthy ecosystems.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!

“Love water, protect it:”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“In an era of globalization, people recognize that they are part of a global society, but they have no idea how to make such a society work. So far, no unified vision or leadership has emerged to guide us in this endeavor. We have not yet found a way to expand the spiritual ideals of democracy so that they pertain to every human being, every animal, and every plant. Until we do, human civilization and the Earth's ecosystem will continue to be in peril.”
― Victor Shamas, The Way of Play: Reclaiming Divine Fun & Celebration

“The love of nature begins with the love for God”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“The state of coastal waters reflects the nature of souls that surround it.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“The U.S. can retire more than 60% of cultivated lands if people choose a plant-based diet, and we would use much less water, pesticides, fossil fuels, and chemical fertilizers.”
― Lisa Kemmerer, Eating Earth: Environmental Ethics and Dietary Choice

“Nonhuman primates are many and wondrous, yet few and endangered.”
― Lisa Kemmerer, Primate People: Saving Nonhuman Primates through Education, Advocacy, and Sanctuary

“Beaver Pledge: One river, underground, irreplaceable, with habitat and wetlands for all.”
― Ben Goldfarb

“The freshwater fish crisis is a manifestation of the complex interplay between climate change and a myriad of human-induced threats. Recognising the interconnectedness of these challenges is the first step towards crafting effective solutions.”
― Shivanshu K. Srivastava