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is a dirty seven-letter word to many people. They are like heavy sleepers refusing to be aroused. 'Leave me alone! It's not time to get up yet!.

Ecology is a dirty seven-letter word to many people. They are like heavy sleepers refusing to be aroused. 'Leave me alone! It's not time to get up yet! Frank Herbert

is concerned with drawing attention to a thing's necessary implication in a network of relations... with marking its persistent tendency to enter into a working system.

To call something ecological is to draw attention to its necessary implication in a network of relations, to mark its persistent tendency to enter into a working system.

is not a matter of letting the environment go back to the wilderness, but of finding some kind of working balance between man and nature founded on a respect for nature and its inner economies.

not a matter of letting the environment go back to the wilderness, but of finding some kind of working balance between man and nature founded on a respect for nature and its inner economies.

's highest function is the understanding of consequences.

The highest function of ecology is the understanding of consequences Frank Herbert

is the biology of ecosystems. It is the study of systems at a level in which organisms are elements of interaction within a loosely organized environmental matrix.

the study of systems at a level in which individuals or whole organisms may be considered elements of interaction, either among themselves or with a loosely organized environmental matrix. Systems at this level are named ecosystems, and ecology, of course, is the biology of ecosystems' (1968: 4)

is the grand system of the interaction of all elements of the natural world, including plant, mineral, animal, and human.

the grand system of the interaction of all elements of the natural world: plant, mineral, animal, human' (1980: 146)

is the study of the place where, or rather the place 'that' we live (oikos). That place is a dynamic flow of matter-energy that tends to settle into various bodies, bodies that often join forces, make connections, form alliances [where] humans are always in composition with nonhumanity, never outside of a sticky web of connections or an ecology.

Ecology can be defined as the study or story (logos) of the place where we live (oikos), or better, the place that we live that place is a dynamic flow of matter-energy that tends to settle into various bodies, bodies that often join forces, make connections, form alliances [where] humans are always in composition with nonhumanity, never outside of a sticky web of connections or an ecology. To call something ecological is to draw attention to its necessary implication in a network of relations, to mark its persistent tendency to enter into a working system.

is a field of study whose first law is that everything is connected to everything else.

The First Law of Ecology: Everything is Connected to Everything Else.

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