biodiversity actually begins in the soil.

It is amazing how much theory we can do without when work actually begins.

— E. F. Schumacher

An agricultural landscape produces food but it also provides water, requires biodiversity to underpin soil function, pollination and other useful services, and also has…

— Tim Benton

I can't imagine anything more important than air, water, soil, energy and biodiversity. These are the things that keep us alive.

— David Suzuki

If we pollute the air, water and soil that keep us alive and well, and destroy the biodiversity that allows natural systems to function,…

— David Suzuki

Civilization has ceased to be that delicate flower which was preserved and painstakingly cultivated in one or two sheltered areas of a soil rich…

— Claude Levi-Strauss

“Organisms we can’t see are accorded the same respect as those that are big and flashy or promise to give a nice immediate kick…

— Judith D. Schwartz

Man has created death.

— William Butler Yeats

I came to all the realizations about sustainability and biodiversity because I fell in love with the way food tastes. That was it. And…

— Alice Waters

The thing that I think about most often is the loss of biodiversity. We talk about these food issues so often with concern to…

— Bryant Terry

We should preserve every scrap of biodiversity as priceless while we learn to use it and come to understand what it means to humanity.

— E. O. Wilson

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

— Vandana Shiva

We share this planet with many species. It is our responsibility to protect them, both for their sakes and our own.

— Pamela A. Matson

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

— Stephen Fry

“The bottom line answer to the question about why biodiversity matters is fairly simple: The rest of the living world can get along without…

— Sylvia A. Earle

Agricultural demand for water - probably the largest threat to freshwater species - continues to increase. ... Meanwhile, threats to terrestrial biodiversity - primarily…

— Indur M. Goklany