Biodiversity Quotes

Belief creates biology.

— Norman Cousins

“biodiversity actually begins in the soil.”

— Judith D. Schwartz

A fist is more than the sum of its fingers.

— Margaret Atwood

Man has created death.

— William Butler Yeats

I prefer to achieve immortality by not dying.

— Woody Allen

Biodiversity starts in the distant past and it points toward the future.

— Frans Lanting

Look at these worlds spinning out of nothingness. That is within your power.

— Rumi

“A lifetime can be spent in a Magellanic voyage around the trunk of a single tree.”

— E. O. Wilson

Brazil has one of the greatest natural patrimonies in terms of biodiversity.

— Guilherme Leal

Natural species are the library from which genetic engineers can work.

— Thomas Lovejoy

Uniformity is not nature's way; diversity is nature's way.

— Vandana Shiva

After the final no there comes a yes And on that yes the future world depends.

— Wallace Stevens

The more complex the network is, the more complex its pattern of interconnections, the more resilient it will be.

— Fritjof Capra

I also have an idea for a book on biodiversity, and why and how we should be conserving it.

— Ken Thompson

With laissez-faire and price atomic, Ecology's Uneconomic, But with another kind of logic Economy's Unecologic.

— Kenneth E. Boulding

The only biodiversity we're going to have left is Coke versus Pepsi. We're landscaping the whole world one stupid mistake at a…

— Chuck Palahniuk

No piecemeal solution is going to prevent the collapse of whole societies and ecosystems ... a radical re-thinking of our values, priorities…

— Maude Barlow

We need to act now. Otherwise the biodiversity that makes Australia so wonderfully unique is going to be lost to us forever.

— Kristy Hinze

Protecting biodiversity is just as important and critical to the survival of mankind as stabilizing the climate. Species protection and climate are…

— Klaus Topfer

We are into the opening stages of a human-caused biotic holocaust-a wholesale elimination of species-that could leave the planet impoverished for at…

— Norman Myers

For us, not cooperating in the monopoly regimes of intellectual property rights and patents and biodiversity - saying "no" to patents on…

— Vandana Shiva

Instead of trying to understand agriculture in its own terms, acknowledge that agriculture ultimately comes out of nature. Right now agriculture is…

— Wes Jackson

It's a phenomenon that started in the United States in which corporations make claims on the life forms, biodiversity and innovations of…

— Vandana Shiva

The preservation of biodiversity is not just a job for governments. International and non-governmental organisations, the private sector and each and every…

— Kofi Annan

You begin paying more attention to what you're seeing when you know the names... If you don't know the names of plant…

— Robert Bateman

We have environmental laws for a reason: to protect endangered biodiversity. And as a country that has one of the highest loss…

— Richard Di Natale

We cannot win this battle to save species and environments without forging an emotional bond between ourselves and nature as well -…

— Stephen Jay Gould

With biobanking there's just another tool available to make sure that the land we actually conserve has better biodiversity values. It's usually…

— Frank Sartor

One of our objectives today is very important for many people, for millions of people on our planet - it is joining…

— Vladimir Putin

There are some things in the world we can't change- gravity, entropy, the speed of light, and our biological nature that requires…

— David Suzuki

I am a great supporter of bionics and this diversity in nature, this genetic diversity, is not available for free. We, as…

— Klaus Topfer

“We cannot predict the behavior of the whole, complex, connected system. We cannot know what will go wrong or right. However, we…

— Bill Nye

When I was very young, biology, the diversity of life, was one of my main interests. I know there's this image people…

— Leonardo DiCaprio

It's not just global warming, it's not just a loss of biodiversity, it's not just the pollution of our oceans and the…

— Leonardo DiCaprio

“Somewhere close I knew spear-nosed bats flew through the tree crowns in search of fruit, palm vipers coiled in ambush in the…

— Edward O. Wilson

I will defend the absolute value of Mozart over Miley Cyrus, of course I will, but we should be wary of false…

— Stephen Fry

Our health relies entirely on the vitality of our fellow species on Earth.

— Harrison Ford

Little by little people are understanding that we need to change, but whatever we decide to do in next 10 to 15…

— Anthony D. Barnosky

Each species on our planet plays a role in the healthy functioning of natural ecosystems, on which humans depend.

— William H. Schlesinger

Oman overall has great animal and plant biodiversity because it has mountains, desert, coastal areas and rich coral reefs.

— Saadi