Ecology

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Ecology (from Greek: οίκος, oikos, "household"; and λόγος, logos, "knowledge") is the scientific study of the distribution and abundance of life and the interaction between organism and their environment. The environment of an organism includes physical properties, which can be described as the sum of local abiotic factors such as insolation (sunlight), climate, and geology, and biotic factors, which are other organisms that share its habitat. The word "ecology" is often used more loosely in... full article at wikipedia

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Silent Running	Mar 10, 1972
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It is our task in our time and in our generation to hand down undiminished to those who come after us, as was handed down to us by those who went before, the natural wealth and beauty which is ours.	John F. Kennedy
The question of whether it's God's green earth is not at center stage, except in the sense that if so, one is reminded with some regularity that He may be dying.	Edward Hoagland
We won't have a society if we destroy the environment.	Margaret Mead
And he gave it for his opinion, that whoever could make two ears of corn, or two blades of grass, to grow upon a spot of ground where only one grew before, would deserve better of mankind, and do more essential service to his country, than the whole race of politicians put together.	Jonathan Swift
The development of civilization and industry in general has always shown itself so active in the destruction of forests that everything that has been done for their conservation and production is completely insignificant in comparison.	Karl Marx
Guns have metamorphosed into cameras in this earnest comedy, the ecology safari, because nature has ceased to be what it always had been -- what people needed protection from. Now nature tamed, endangered, mortal -- needs to be protected from people.	Susan Sontag
The nation that destroys its soil destroys itself.	Franklin D. Roosevelt
A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.	William James
The universe is like a safe to which there is a combination. Bit the combination is locked up in the safe.	Peter De Vries
The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago had they happened to be within the reach of predatory human hands.	Havelock Ellis
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