And by reducing carbon pollution in our atmosphere, we are…

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

— William H. Schlesinger

There is no waste in functioning natural ecosystems. All organisms, dead or alive, are potential sources of food for other organisms. A caterpillar eats…

— G. Tyler Miller

Environmentali sm isn't a spectator sport. You actually have to stand up and demand that we be vigilant in protecting our air and water.

— Lisa P. Jackson

We're putting 70 million tonnes of pollution into the atmosphere every day, trapping an enormous amount of extra heat from the sun inside the…

— Al Gore

The cumulative amount of man-made global pollution that's in the atmosphere now traps as much extra heat energy every day as would be released…

— Al Gore

While some livestock farms are much better than others, there are none in this country that look like natural ecosystems. Nature has no fences.

— George Monbiot

“If we're going to survive as a planet with more than 6 billion people without destroying the complex balance of our natural ecosystems, the…

— Steven Johnson

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