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

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

Eugene Odum
Nature, Animal, Mutual Benefit
Eugene Pleasants Odum (1983). “Basic Ecology”, Saunders College Pub

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

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
Optimistic, Challenges, Together
Eugene Pleasants Odum (1993). “Ecology and our endangered life-support systems”

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
Men, Keys, Oasis

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
Fate, Quality, Benefits
Eugene Pleasants Odum (1993). “Ecology and our endangered life-support systems”

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