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  1. James S.A. Corey _ Cibola Burn

    The usual state of nature is recovering from the last disaster.
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  2. Daniel Quinn _ Ishmael: An Adventure of the

    This is considered almost holy work by farmers and ranchers. Kill off everything you can't eat. Kill off anything that eats what you eat. Kill off anything that doesn't feed what you eat.""It IS holy work, in Taker culture. The more competitors you destroy, the more humans you can bring into the world, and that makes it just about the holiest work there is. Once you exempt yourself from the law of limited competition, everything in the world except your food and the food of your food becomes an enemy to be exterminated.
    book-quotephilosophyecologyexploitation

  3. Daniel Quinn _ Ishmael: An Adventure of the

    This law … defines the limits of competition in the community of life. You may compete to the full extent of your capabilities, but you may not hunt down your competitors or destroy their food or deny them access to food. In other words, you may compete but you may not wage war.
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  4. Daniel Quinn _ Ishmael: An Adventure of the

    No one species shall make the life of the world its own.' … That's one expression of the law. Here's another: 'The world was not made for any one species.
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  5. Daniel Quinn _ Ishmael: An Adventure of the

    Diversity is a survival factor for the community itself. A community of a hundred million species can survive anything short of total global catastrophe. Within that hundred million will be thousands that could survive a global temperature drop of twenty degrees-which would be a lot more devastating than it sounds. Within that hundred million will be thousands that could survive a global temperature rise of twenty degrees. But a community of a hundred species or a thousand species has almost no survival value at all.
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  6. Henry David Thoreau _ Walden

    Men say they know many things;But lo! they have taken wings, -The arts and sciences,And a thousand appliances;The wind that blowsIs all that any body knows
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  7. Henry David Thoreau _ Walden and Other Writings

    Thoreau the "Patron Saint of Swamps" because he enjoyed being in them and writing about them said, "my temple is the swamp… When I would recreate myself, I seek the darkest wood, the thickest and most impenetrable and to the citizen, most dismal, swamp. I enter a swamp as a sacred place, a sanctum sanctorum… I seemed to have reached a new world, so wild a place…far away from human society. What's the need of visiting far-off mountains and bogs, if a half-hour's walk will carry me into such wildness and novelty.
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  8. Michael Pollan _ The Omnivore's Dilemma: A

    More grass means less forest; more forest less grass. But either-or is a construction more deeply woven into our culture than into nature, where even antagonists depend on one another and the liveliest places are the edges, the in-betweens or both-ands..... Relations are what matter most.
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  9. Ursula K. Le Guin _ The Word for World is Forest

    A forest ecology is a delicate one. If the forest perishes, its fauna may go with it. The Athshean word for world is also the word for forest.
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  10. Mark Kurlansky _ Cod: A Biography of the Fish

    Man wants to see nature and evolution as separate from human activities. There is a natural world, and there is man. But man also belongs to the natural world. If he is a ferocious predator, that too is part of evolution. If cod and haddock and other species cannot survive because man kills them, something more adaptable will take their place. Nature, the ultimate pragmatist, doggedly searches for something that works. But as the cockroach demonstrates, what works best in nature does not always appeal to us.
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  11. J.R.R. Tolkien _ The Silmarillion

    These folk are hewers of trees and hunters of beasts; therefore we are their unfriends, and if they will not depart we shall afflict them in all ways that we can.
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  12. Frank Herbert _ Dune

    The thing the ecologically illiterate don't realise about an ecosystem is that it's a system. A system! A system maintains a certain fluid stability that can be destroyed by a misstep in just one niche. A system has order, flowing from point to point. If something dams that flow, order collapses. The untrained might miss that collapse until it was too late. That's why the highest function of ecology is the understanding of consequences."
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