Concrete Botany Quotes

“The cultural fear of “bugs” we have as a society, without understanding what they do or how vital they are to the rest of life, is silly and archaic.”
― Joey Santore, Concrete Botany: The Ecology of Plants in the Age of Human Disturbance

“When I started to learn botany and experience actual intact ecosystems, I came to see just how disconnected from ecological reality most of my society was.”
― Joey Santore, Concrete Botany: The Ecology of Plants in the Age of Human Disturbance

“The conventions of modern human landscaping seem totally deranged.”
― Joey Santore, Concrete Botany: The Ecology of Plants in the Age of Human Disturbance

“It’s an unreasonably cruel thing to deprive someone of (an intact, diverse, and ecologically functional native landscape), but that’s the norm for millions of people in the United States and elsewhere. We clear everything, import invasives, and plant vapid ornamental garbage in whatever space is left.”
― Joey Santore, Concrete Botany: The Ecology of Plants in the Age of Human Disturbance

“Climate change is talked about everywhere as a threat to humanity’s future, but most people seem entirely oblivious to the almost greater threat of habitat destruction and land clearance.”
― Joey Santore, Concrete Botany: The Ecology of Plants in the Age of Human Disturbance

“Individuals don’t change or evolve; the genetic makeup of the population does, though the population is composed of individuals.”
― Joey Santore, Concrete Botany: The Ecology of Plants in the Age of Human Disturbance