Water is the foundation for our economies, communities…

In the Gulf region and nationwide, small businesses are an integral and crucial part of local economies and communities. They should not be overlooked.

— Dan Lipinski

The continued existence of wildlife and wilderness is important to the quality of life of humans. Our challenge for the future is that we…

— Jim Fowler

People like the robber barons assumed that the doctrine of the survival of the fittest authenticated them as deserving power. You know, "I'm the…

— Charlie Munger

We have reached a new milestone as a human family. With seven billion of us now inhabiting our planet, it is time to ask…

— Ban Ki-moon

What I try to communicate is that there's a lot of crossover between that feeling of romantic heartbreak and this devastating feeling of knowing…

— Mirah

The destruction of aquatic ecosystem health, and the increasing water scarcity, are in my opinion the most pressing environmental problems facing human kind.

— Maude Barlow

“The marketplace has many similarities to nature's rainforest and oceanic ecosystems. Left to their own devices, the marketplace and the earth's ecosystems are self-regulating.…

— Mary J. Ruwart

A large animal needs a large area. If you protect that area, you're also protecting thousands of other plants and animals. You're saving all…

— George Schaller

Ocean energy can contribute a great deal toward the protection or our atmosphere - without damaging marine ecosystems that are equally vital to the…

— Fred Krupp

Restoration ecology is experimental science, a science of love and altruism. In its attempts to reverse the processes of ecosystem degradation it runs exactly…

— Stephanie Mills

School leadership has been identified as another critical element of student success, and subsequently enough resources and training should be provided to our school…

— Shaheen Mistri

I am passionate about making sure that we collectively and proactively preserve all of the world's most iconic coastal and oceanic wild places -…

— Serge Dedina

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

— Bill Gates

Let us be good stewards of the Earth we inherited. All of us have to share the Earth's fragile ecosystems and precious resources, and…

— Kofi Annan

In many environments, take away the ants and there would be partial collapses in many of the land ecosystems.

— E. O. Wilson