Cultivating and conserving diversity is no luxury in our times: it is a survival imperative. — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
We share this planet with many species. It is our responsibility to protect them, both for their sakes and our own. — Pamela A. Matson Copy Share Image
We advocate biodiversity for biodiversity's sake. It may take our extinction to set things straight. — David Foreman Copy Share Image
For if one link in nature's chain might be lost, another might be lost, until the whole of things will vanish by… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The flow from knowledge to action draws upon the complete person with his or her catalyst and synergistic potential. — Ralph Nader Copy Share Image
To survive, humans need food, water, and air. Yet biodiversity, the Earth's bodies of water, and the planet's atmosphere are all under… — Graciela Chichilnisky Copy Share Image
We're losing biodiversity globally at an alarming rate, and we need a cornucopia of different plants and animals, for the planet's health… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
It is important to recognize that behind the razzmatazz of consumerism, we all remain dependent on basic natural resources - land, air,… — Klaus Topfer Copy Share Image
We see evidence that lakes and forests and wetlands can have different equilibria - so you have a savanna system that may… — Johan Rockstrom Copy Share Image
The essential role of the environment is still marginal in discussions about poverty. While we continue to debate these initiatives, environmental degradation,… — Wangari Maathai Copy Share Image
The poverty fighters resent the climate-change folks; climate folks hold summits without reference to biodiversity; the food advocates resist the biodiversity protectors.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Although biodiversity loss continues globally, many countries are significantly slowing the rate of loss by shoring up protected natural areas and the… — Helen Clark Copy Share Image
This is the rollcall of evolution happening in the space of a few generations, the greatest loss of living things that make… — Peter Garrett Copy Share Image
Look closely at nature. Every species is a masterpiece, exquisitely adapted to the particular environment in which it has survived. Who are… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
Lack of accountability weakens the environmental and health rights of citizens; it damages peace- building and reconciliation initiatives; impedes the implementation of… — Widad Akrawi Copy Share Image
Even if we could grow our way out of the crisis and delay the inevitable and painful reconciliation of virtual and real… — Herman E. Daly Copy Share Image
“Biodiversity is a result of the process of evolution, and it is also a safety net that helps keep that process going.… — Bill Nye Copy Share Image
“The activities of La Condamine, Humboldt, Wallace, Bates, and other such explorers touched on only the tiniest fraction of the vastness of… — Kurt Johnson Copy Share Image
I want to do the right things - I want to plant trees, I want to make sure that the indigenous forests… — Wangari Maathai Copy Share Image
Natural species are the library from which genetic engineers can work. Genetic engineers don't make new genes, they rearrange existing ones. Speaking… — Thomas Lovejoy Copy Share Image
If we can successfully lift the stranglehold of bureaucracy and old ways of thinking, we can see some real innovation in biodiversity… — Mindy Baha El Din Copy Share Image
What an extraordinary time to be alive. We're the first people on our planet to have real choice: we can continue killing… — Frances Moore Lappé Copy Share Image
Somewhere close I knew spear-nosed bats flew through the tree crowns in search of fruit, palm vipers coiled in ambush in the… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
On the intimate level, anyone who has loved a companion animal knows the uniquely wonderful experience these 'other nations' provide, and their… — April Gornik Copy Share Image
When we protect the places where the processes of life can flourish, we strengthen not only the future of medicine, agriculture and… — Harrison Ford Copy Share Image
Make the wrong choices now and future generations will live with a changed climate, depleted resources and without the green space and… — Tony Blair Copy Share Image
The thing that I think about most often is the loss of biodiversity. We talk about these food issues so often with… — Bryant Terry Copy Share Image
I came to all the realizations about sustainability and biodiversity because I fell in love with the way food tastes. That was… — Alice Waters Copy Share Image
I love nature dearly and all creatures that contribute to make it what it is. I see the beauty in all expressions… — Yossi Ghinsberg Copy Share Image
Whether we consciously realize it or not, the biodiversity with which we are most familiar, and the biodiversity with which we have… — Cary Fowler Copy Share Image
The value of biodiversity is that it makes our ecosystems more resilient, which is a prerequisite for stable societies; its wanton destruction… — Johan Rockstrom Copy Share Image
A sound-bite culture can't discuss science very well. Exactly what we're losing when we reduce biodiversity, the causes and consequences of global… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
If man has not found ways to deal with environmental problems such as water and air pollution by 1998, it will be… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
Food security is an authentically human requirement. Guaranteeing it for present and future generations also means safeguarding ourselves against the uncontrolled exploitation… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
What little wilderness remains displays the patterns we must return to, if our species and as many others as now remain are… — Stephanie Mills Copy Share Image
We are committed with our lives to building a different model and a different future for humanity, the Earth, and other species.… — Maude Barlow Copy Share Image
When the forest is destroyed, when the river is dammed, when the biodiversity is stolen, when fields are waterlogged or turned saline… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
It is about time that the religious and environmental faithful joined forces. No one wins when divisive politics pits the right to… — Alex Bruce Copy Share Image
It's worse than slave trade because what is being traded is the very knowledge that makes survival possible for 80 percent of… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
Biodiversity can't be maintained by protecting a few species in a zoo, or by preserving greenbelts or national parks. To function properly,… — Donella Meadows Copy Share Image
