Ecosystems Quotes · Page 2

This is no longer a battle of devices, it is a war of ecosystems.

— Stephen Elop

Big businesses aren't the only ones in the economic ecosystem. Nobody should fall behind because of an unfair structure.

— Park Geun-hye

You should know what is taken out of the ecosystem in order to give you a moment's sustenance.

— Sylvia Earle

“The state of coastal waters reflects the nature of souls that surround it.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

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

— William H. Schlesinger

The agriculture we seek will act like an ecosystem, feature material recycling and run on the contemporary sunlight of our star.

— Wes Jackson

Families are ecosystems. Each life grows in response to the lives around it

— Mary Schmich

I would argue that practices that destroy ecosystems always destroy jobs.

— Bruce Babbitt

Water is the foundation for our economies, communities, ecosystems, and quality of life.

— Kate Brown

People need to know that they have all the tools within themselves. Self-awareness, which means awareness of their body, awareness of their…

— Deepak Chopra

“We’ll come to understand that no work, no idea stands alone, but that all good, true, and beautiful things are ecosystems of…

— Kevin Kelly

You cannot tackle hunger, disease, and poverty unless you can also provide people with a healthy ecosystem in which their economies can…

— Gro Harlem Brundtland

There's no point bleating about the future of pandas, polar bears and tigers when we're not addressing the one single factor putting…

— Chris Packham

The raising of animals for food and all that it entails is the single most destructive force impacting our planet's fragile ecosystems.…

— Sharon Gannon

Biological diversity is the key to the maintenance of the world as we know it... Eliminate one species, and another increases to…

— E. O. Wilson

There are three types of biomimicry - one is copying form and shape, another is copying a process, like photosynthesis in a…

— Janine Benyus

One thing leads to the other. Deforestation leads to climate change, which leads to ecosystem losses, which negatively impacts our livelihoods -…

— Gisele Bundchen

The evolutionary vision is agnostic in regard to systems in the universe of greater complexity than those of which human beings have…

— Kenneth E. Boulding

Each of these [bacterial] species are masterpieces of evolution. Each has persisted for thousands to millions of years. Each is exquisitely adapted…

— E. O. Wilson

In other words, people should be placed in parks within ecosystems instead of parks placed in human communities. We need vast areas…

— Paul Watson

Through scientific discovery and technological innovation, we enlist the forces of the natural world to solve many of the uniquely human problems…

— William J. Clinton

Acknowledging our love for the living world does something that a library full of papers on sustainable development and ecosystem services cannot:…

— George Monbiot

Earth as an ecosystem stands out in the all of the universe. There's no place that we know about that can support…

— Sylvia Earle

Seasonally ploughing and harvesting crops will mash up a few moles, slice through a burrow of field mice and crush any ground-nesting…

— Tristram Stuart

What would it mean if there were a theory that explained everything? And just what does "everything" actually mean, anyway? Would this…

— Ken Wilber

I believe there's plenty of market for each; we're talking about an ecosystem that is going to support billions of devices, so…

— Aaron Levie

While ants exist in just the right numbers for the rest of the living world, humans have become too numerous. If we…

— E. O. Wilson

Our assaults on the ecosystem are so powerful, so numerous, so finely interconnected, that although the damage they do is clear, it…

— Barry Commoner

“Increasingly, we will be faced with a choice: whether to keep the oceans for wild fish or farmed fish. Farming domesticated species…

— Charles Clover

“The Everglades was the only place on earth where alligators (broad snout, fresh water, darker skin) and crocodiles (pointy snout, salt water,…

— Michael Grunwald

“In nature, ecosystems consist of fauna and flora, climatic characteristics, soil conditions, geologic features, and a host of other interacting influences. Similarly,…

— Paul Cerrato

Landscape to me is a planar thing, just a view. Environment is everything down to the ecosystem. Big difference.

— Michael Heizer

Eventually we'll realize that if we destroy the ecosystem, we destroy ourselves.

— Jonas Salk

I'd like to help repair the earth's ecosystems, and to fully live until I'm fully dead.

— Martha Beck

An ecosystem that has the maximum amount of diversity is the richest.

— Robert Greene

The current market ecosystem is not sustainable, and significant changes are coming one way or another.

— John Ramsay

If we brought the mammoth back to Siberia, maybe that would be good for the ecosystems that are changing because of climate…

— Hendrik Poinar

Trying to save ecosystems has more to do with changing egosystems.

— Don Rittner

There are ecosystems like coral reefs [at risk] through ocean acidification. Those are valuable things that we should protect.

— Bill Gates

I think Kansas City has one of the strongest entrepreneurial ecosystems in the country.

— Sharice Davids