The influence of the senses have in men overpowered the thought to the degree that the walls of time and space have… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
This is the assembly of life that took a billion years to evolve. It has eaten the storms - folded them into… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
And somehow mother nature manages to create this incredible biosphere, to create this incredibly rich environment of animals and plants with this… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
The evolution of the cosmos invokes in me a sense of mystery; the increase in biodiversity invokes the response of humility; and… — Ursula Goodenough Copy Share Image
To many people, 'biodiversity' is almost synonymous with the word 'nature,' and 'nature' brings to mind steamy forests and the big creatures… — Cary Fowler Copy Share Image
Our world is evolving without consideration, and the result is a loss of biodiversity, energy issues, congestion in cities. But geography, if… — Jack Dangermond Copy Share Image
There are more effective ways of tackling environmental problems including global warming, proliferation of plastics, urban sprawl, and the loss of biodiversity… — Preston Manning Copy Share Image
Our food is safer and our diets are more diverse than ever before; production methods are becoming increasingly sustainable, clean and efficient;… — Louise Fresco Copy Share Image
The number of people displaced by dams is estimated at between 40 million and 80 million, most of them in China and… — Paul Brown Copy Share Image
Even if we act immediately, the world is doomed to lose many of its animal and plant species and this inturn will… — Achim Steiner Copy Share Image
First thing the developer has to do is to get an assessment of the threatened species, of the ecological values of that… — Frank Sartor Copy Share Image
We find ourselves ethically destitute just when, for the first time, we are faced with ultimacy, the irreversible closing down of the… — Thomas Berry Copy Share Image
We have a very old conservation movement, particularly in the United States, which has focused on campaigns to protect endangered species: the… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
The way you can go to Paris or Beijing and everywhere there's a McDonald's hamburger, this is the ecological quivalent of franchised… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Plant genetic resources are seldom 'raw materials'; they are the expression of the current wisdom of farmers who have played a highly… — Melaku Worede Copy Share Image
2010 is the International Year of Biodiversity. We can classify our crops into those which are climate resilient and those which are… — M. S. Swaminathan Copy Share Image
Without knowing it, we utilize hundreds of products each day that owe their origin to wild animals and plants. Indeed our welfare… — Norman Myers Copy Share Image
Finding mechanisms for putting carbon back into landscapes enhances biodiversity. More biodiverse ecosystems store more carbon, more securely and are more resilient… — Will Steffen Copy Share Image
At a physical level, India is blessed with a rich biodiversity of flora and fauna. We have a predictable monsoon, and a… — Rohini Nilekani Copy Share Image
Even if we planted a tree on every square yard available in the planet by the end of the century we would… — Graciela Chichilnisky Copy Share Image
Captain Falco saw the diminishment of biodiversity in our oceans over a span of nearly seven decades. He was dedicated to the… — Paul Watson Copy Share Image
“The bottom line answer to the question about why biodiversity matters is fairly simple: The rest of the living world can get… — Sylvia A. Earle Copy Share Image
The byproduct of the main thrust to protect the biodiversity of a given place is that you get especially young people out… — Douglas Tompkins Copy Share Image
Star Trek was an attempt to say that humanity will reach maturity and wisdom on the day that it begins not just… — Gene Roddenberry Copy Share Image
Biodiversity is the totality of all inherited variation in the life forms of Earth, of which we are one species. We study… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
It should not be believed that all beings exist for the sake of the existence of man. On the contrary, all the… — Maimonides Copy Share Image
Wisdom: It's something that you know when you see it. You can recognize it, you can experience it. I have defined wisdom… — Jonas Salk Copy Share Image
Turtles are very stable and have been around forever. But they have problems adapting. When humans came along, turtles came under serious… — Linus Torvalds Copy Share Image
The wealth of the nation is its air, water, soil, forests, minerals, rivers, lakes, oceans, scenic beauty, wildlife habitats and biodiversity... that's… — Gaylord Nelson Copy Share Image
Just as the natural environment depends on biodiversity, so the human environment depends on cultural diversity, because no one civilization encompasses all… — Jonathan Sacks Copy Share Image
Yet, despite our many advances, our environment is still threatened by a range of problems, including global climate change, energy dependence on… — Dan Lipinski Copy Share Image
