Eugene Odum quotes

“Cooperation for mutual benefit, a survival strategy very common in natural systems, is one that humanity needs to emulate.”
-- Eugene Odum

Source : Eugene Pleasants Odum (1983). “Basic Ecology”, Saunders College Pub

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“We are able to breathe, drink, and eat in comfort because millions of organisms and hundreds of processes are operating to maintain a liveable environment, but we tend to take nature's services for granted because we don't pay money for most of them.”
-- Eugene Odum

Source : "Ecology: A Bridge Between Science and Society". Book by Eugene Pleasants Odum, March 1, 1997.

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“The fate of the soil system depends on society's willingness to intervene in the market place, and to forego some of the short-term benefits that accrue from 'mining' the soil so that soil quality and fertility can be maintained over the longer term.”
-- Eugene Odum

Source : Eugene Pleasants Odum (1993). “Ecology and our endangered life-support systems”

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“The Pacific coral reef, as a kind of oasis in a desert, can stand as an object lesson for man who must now learn that mutualism between autotrophic and heterotrophic components, and between producers and consumers in the societal realm, coupled with efficient recycling of materials and use of energy, are the keys to maintaining prosperity in a world of limited resources.”
-- Eugene Odum

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“When the study of the household (ecology) and the management of the household (economics) can be merged, and when ethics can be extended to include environmental as well as human values, then we can be optimistic about the future of humankind. Accordingly, bringing together these three ‘E's' is the ultimate holism and the great challenge for our future.”
-- Eugene Odum

Source : Eugene Pleasants Odum (1993). “Ecology and our endangered life-support systems”

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“Nature is a book of many pages and each page tells a fascinating story to him who learns her language. Our fertile valleys and craggy mountains recite an epic poem of geologic conflicts. The starry sky reveal gigantic suns and space and time without end.”

“We travel together, passengers on a little spaceship, dependent on it's vulnerable reserves of air and soil, all committed, for our safety, to it's security and peace. Preserved from annihilation only by the care, the work and the love we give our fragile craft.”

Source : Speech to Economic and Social Council of United Nations, Geneva, Switzerland, 9 July 1965

“No religion is higher than humanity”

“We will not be silent. We will not obey. We will not allow our government to destroy our humanity.”

Source : "Gun activist Adam Kokesh charged" By Laurie Ure, www.cnn.com. July 28, 2013.

“In late marriage alone lies the compulsion to retain an institution which, twist and turn as you like, is and remains a disgrace to humanity, an institution which is damned ill-suited to a being who with his usual modesty likes to regard himself as the 'image' of God.”

“The world is undoubtedly going through great changes.  The only question is whether the outcome will be the good of Aryan humanity or profits for the Jew.  The task of the national state will, therefore, be to preserve the race and fit it to meet the final and great decisions on this globe by suitable education of its youth.”

“Peace is the one condition of survival in this nuclear age.”

“... passion for survival is the great theme of women's poetry.”

“I decided to pick the diet that I thought would maximize my chances of long-term survival.”

“I think all of us certainly believed the statistics which said that probably 88% chance of mission success and maybe 96% chance of survival. And we were willing to take those odds.”