Top 5 Quotes & Sayings by David Ehrenfeld

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American author David Ehrenfeld.
Last updated on October 12, 2024.
David Ehrenfeld

David Ehrenfeld is an American professor of biology at Rutgers University and is the author of over a dozen publications, including The Arrogance of Humanism (1978), Becoming Good Ancestors: How We Balance Nature, Community, and Technology (2009), and Swimming Lessons: Keeping Afloat in the Age of Technology (2002). He is often described as one of the forerunners of twentieth-century conservation biology. Ehrenfeld's work primarily deals with the inter-related topics of biodiversity, conservation, and sustainability. He is also the founding editor of Conservation Biology, a peer-reviewed scientific journal that deals with conserving the biodiversity of Earth, and has written for various magazines and newspapers including The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, and Harper's Magazine.

Patriotism is the opposite of selfish individualism.
Patriotism is the admission that people who share a land, a place, and a history have a special obligation to that place and to each other.
a society driven mainly by selfish individualism has all the potential for sustainability of a collection of angry scorpions in a bottle. — © David Ehrenfeld
a society driven mainly by selfish individualism has all the potential for sustainability of a collection of angry scorpions in a bottle.
Humanity is on the march, earth itself is left behind.
Will the things that are being lost - the wilderness, the plants and animals, the skills, and all the others - leave too vast a gap in the human spirit? This is the unanswerable question. In the meantime, we must live in our century and wait, enduring somehow the unavoidable sadness.
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