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Finally, since human beings are uniquely capable of producing materials not found in nature, environmental degradation may be due to the resultant intrusion into an ecosystem of a substance wholly foreign to it.
Econowives, they're called. These
Fungi are the grand recyclers of the planet and the vanguard species in habitat restoration.
Not only is natural burial by far the most ecologically sound way to perish, it doubles down on the fear of fragmentation and loss of control. Making the choice to be naturally buried says, 'Not only am I aware that I'm a helpless, fragmented mass of organic matter, I celebrate it. Vive la decay!'
Everyone is trying to jump on the biomimic bandwagon. But a cork floor is not biomimicry. Neither is using bacteria to clean water.
Death and ruin is man's preferred ecosystem.
The gardener knows how to turn garbage into compost. Therefore our anger, sadness, and fear is the best compost for our compassion.
As crude a weapon as a cave man's club, the chemical barrage has been hurled against the fabric of life.
There is a gyre of discarded floating plastic the size of the continental USA in the ocean. In it, plastic trash outweighs plankton 40 to 1.
Sink, suffer, self-destruct
Rise stronger, reconstruct
Just shred baby, shred.
Always recycle wasted time
Recycle the body through fire; scatter the remains back into the earth.
Every living body continuously eliminates feces, it rejects what is not serviceable to the assimilating organism: what man despises, what arouses his disgust, what he calls evil, are excrements.
Life: composted lessons for our hearts to blossom into our souls.
Just look at what happens to humans after they die-most of that is done by microbes.
We should all be so lucky to get from life a sunny-day swim in chemical waste.
Grobanite makes me think of a type of harmless crustacean.
Let nothing be called natural In an age of bloody confusion, Ordered disorder, planned caprice, And dehumanized humanity, lest all things Be held unalterable!
The seriousness of ecological degradation lays bare the depth of man's moral crisis ... Simplicity, moderation, and discipline as well as the spirit of sacrifice must become a part of everyday life.
Fossils are of four kinds, viz. saline, earthy, inflammable and metallic; hence arise four classes.
We have ignored this cancer for so long that the romance of environmental concern is already fading in the shadow of the grim realities of lakes, rivers and bays where all forms of life have been smothered by untreated wastes, and oceans which no longer provide us with food.
The wasteland grows.
A food waste reduction hierarchy-feeding people first, then animals, then recycling, then composting-serves to show how productive use can be made of much of the excess food that is currently contributing to leachate and methane formation in landfills.
we've built a society that gets what it needs from the Earth and ecosystems but does far too little to maintain the health of the ecosystems we depend on, which are quite literally the life-support systems of the planet.
Bio-technology is the science of the future.
Astronomy ... is of all others the science which seems to present to us the most striking instance of waste in nature.
People have been using human waste as fertilizer for centuries. It's even got a pleasant name: "night soil.
What is this?"
"Plankton, basically," Henry says. "A plant. A bio luminescent plankton called dinoflagellates."
Oh, Henry. He's so romantic.
NATURE FACTS: Nature will kill you and then make new things from you.
The ocean is our planet's life support system, yet in my travels and at home, I've seen its degradation firsthand.
Our challenge for the future is that we realize we are very much a part of the earth's ecosystem, and we must learn to respect and live according to the basic biological laws of nature.
The ocean will take care of this on its own if it was left alone and left out there. It's natural. It's as natural as the ocean water is.
Nature often seems like an idea that has had its day.
In today's world, human desires far supersede human needs. Waste, as you can see, is the result of that disparity.
A biomass will do whatever it takes to be accepted by the society
To the naked eye Boudicca is a haze of noxious green that lurks among fronds of seaweed looking exactly like the aftermath of a chemical spill.
Civilization is being poisoned by its own waste products.
The renewal of our natures is a work of great importance. It is not to be done in a day. We have not only a new house to build up, but an old one to pull down.
There are, in short, a multitude of ways for trash to escape and plastic to go missing. But there is only one ultimate end point for this wild trash: the greatest future, the biggest surface, the deepest chasm, the broadest desert and the largest burial ground on the planet. It's the ocean.
Take stock, citizen bacillus,
Now that there are so many billions of you,
Bleeding through your opened veins,
Into your bathtub, or into the Pacific
Of that by which they may remember you.
Soulcial Shit. [Fertilizer]
you climbed under the skin I'm trying to escape.
Unsustainable energy consumption has humanity locked into a death spiral with nature.
The day we dispose of the idea of disposability will be a great one for the planet.
Naturam expellas furca, tamen usque recurret
et mala perrumpet furtim fastidia victrix.
(Drive Nature out with a pitchfork, she'll come right back,
Victorious over your ignorant confident scorn.)
We are seeking another basic outlook: the world as an organization. This would profoundly change categories of our thinking and influence our practical attitudes. We must envision the biosphere as a whole with mutually reinforcing or mutually destructive inter-dependencies.
The termites of reduction have always gnawed away at life: even the greatest love ends up as a skeleton of feeble memories.
I am a creature of chemicals.
The most dangerous kind of waste is the waste we do not recognize.
Humans in the developed world spend more than 90 percent of their lives indoors, where they breathe in and come into contact with trillions of life forms invisible to the naked eye: microorganisms.
And why does it smell like something DIED in the mud and is STILL in there rotting?
The longer I live the greater is my respect for manure in all its forms.
In the ocean, [bioluminescence] is the rule rather than the exception.
Food and the way we grow it and produce it are a major cause of environmental degradation.
Nature's solution to pollution is dilution.
Each narrow cell in which we dwell
Is a foul and dark latrine,
And the fetid breath of living Death
Chokes up each grated screen,
And all, but Lust, is turned to dust
In Humanity's machine.
Biomimicry is basically taking a design challenge and then finding an ecosystem that's already solved that challenge, and literally trying to emulate what you learn.
Why, you boggle-eyed, flap-tongued, drag-bellied offspring of unmentionable algae! You seething little leprous blotch of bat-nibbled fungus! You cringing parasite on the underside of a dwarfish and ignoble worm!
We've lost touch and allowed technology to take precedence over organic nature. But let's not forget that those microchips in our computers came from elements of the earth.
To survive, our minds must taste redwood, and agate, octopi, bat, and in the bat's mouth, insect. It's hard to think like a planet, but we've got to try.
If you look at the ecological circuitry of this planet, the ways in which materials like carbon or sulfur or phosphorous or nitrogen get cycled in ways that makes them available for our biology, the organisms that do the heavy lifting are bacteria.
Nothing is more conservative than a bacterium.
Give me something about bacteria. Give me something that won't make me feel so inferior
Biomimicry is ... the conscious emulation of life's genius.
The time has come to lower our voices, to cease imposing our mechanistic patterns on the biological processes of the earth, to resist the impulse to control, to command, to force, to oppress, and to begin quite humbly to follow the guidance of the larger community on which all life depends.
Waste is also not waste, it can be recycled
We all moan and groan about the loss of the quality of life through the destruction of our ecology, and yet every one of us, in our own little comfortable ways, contributes daily to that destruction. It's time now to awaken in each one of us the respect and attention our beloved Mother deserves.
In nature alone are forms. That which is not of nature cannot have any forms, fine or gross. It must be formless.
The creature that wins against its environment destroys itself.
How dare you treat your soil like dirt!
As soils are depleted, human health, vitality and intelligence go with them.
Let all the poisons that lurk in the mud, Hatch out.
Conservation is now a dead word.
Nature works with five polymers. Only five polymers. In the natural world, life builds from the bottom up, and it builds in resilience and multiple uses.
In Nature there is no dirt, everything is in the right condition; the swamp and the worm, as well as the grass and the bird,-all is there for itself.
Accidents at power plants are bad enough. But a leak from a bioreactor could be worse, since bacteria can learn new tricks when you're not looking.
Save the Planet ... Buy Organic
If a technology is elegant, biodegradable, made from renewable materials and employs a minimum of muscular, water or wind energy, is responsive, beautiful in its way, and challenging to the user in that it develops the user's senses and strength - it may comport with nature.
I wish, I wish I were a poisonous bacterium.
What's sad is that nobody knows the constitution of the ecosystem that has just been destroyed. Is it an important future food? Is it an important medicine? What can it do for future generations - or present generations?
I have nothing against the smell of rot but something against what hides the smell of rot in the United States of America.
The body is so easily damaged, so easily disposed of, water and chemicals is all it is, hardly more to it than a jellyfish drying on sand.
You think of yourselves as human beings, but I think of you as 99 percent bacterial.
We should nourish our souls on the dew of Poesy, and manure them as well.
As a child, I was aware of the widely-held attitude that the ocean is so big, so resilient that we could use the sea as the ultimate place to dispose of anything we did not want, from garbage and nuclear wastes to sludge from sewage to entire ships that had reached the end of their useful life.
I'm trying to assemble materials for a different mode of life.
Syn bio tech had come on stream, springing full-grown from the bench like the Incredible Hulk bursting his lab coat, a great green monster that sucked carbon dioxide from the air and sprouted wood, pissed oil, and shat diamonds.
What's that smell?" Reynolds asked.
That smell is the stuff they grow mushrooms in."
DeForrest sniffed the air. "Shit?" he asked.
Captain Suzie shrugged. "Manure.
Death like style is the removal of rubbish.
Such is the condition of organic nature! whose first law might be expressed in the words 'Eat or be eaten!' and which would seem to be one great slaughter-house, one universal scene of rapacity and injustice!
Nature's old felicities.
All this new stuff goes on top
turn it over, turn it over
wait and water down
from the dark bottom
turn it inside out
let it spread through
Sift down even.
Watch it sprout.
A mind like compost.
History is biology's dumping ground
Earth, earthriding your merry-go-roundtoward extinction,right to the rootsthickening the oceans like gravy,festering in your caves,you are becoming a latrine.
Haesten.
If this world ever contained one worthless, treacherous slime-coated piece of human dung then it was Haesten.
Compost makes houseplants very happy.
The perfection of rottenness.
Degrade first the Arts if you'd Mankind Degrade. Hire Idiots to Paint with cold light & hot shade: Give high Price for the worst, leave the best in disgrace, And with Labours of Ignorance fill every place.
Collective human actions are transforming, even ravaging, the biosphere - perhaps irreversibly - through global warming and loss of biodiversity.
The nation that destroys its soil destroys itself.