Texas Wildlife Science

“It really boils down to this: that all life is interrelated. We are all caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied into a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one destiny, affects all indirectly.” – Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., 1967 Christmas sermon

“When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the Universe.” – John Muir, founder of the Sierra Club

In the original Greek, ecology literally means study (logos) of the home (oikos). Today the term can be defined as the study of the relationships living organisms have with each other and with their environment, including both biotic (living) and abiotic (non-living) components.  Ecology is important in helping wildlife scientists appreciate the many factors that must be considered in the science of wildlife management.