The love of nature begins with the love for God

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

— E. O. Wilson

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

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

— Bill Gates

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

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

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

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

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

“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

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

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

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

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

I owned a 1972 Plymouth Valiant that we bought for $125. It was infested with cockroaches and geckos - it was its own little ecosystem.

— Aaron Eckhart

The wealth of any ecosystem is its perennials. The primal herbivore-predator-disturbance-rest dance is literally the breath and pulse of the earth. Grasses recycle oxygen…

— Joel Salatin