Agricultural demand for water - probably the largest threat to freshwater species - continues to increase. ... Meanwhile, threats to terrestrial biodiversity… — Indur M. Goklany Copy Share Image
The thing that I think about most often is the loss of biodiversity. We talk about these food issues so often with… — Bryant Terry Copy Share Image
We should preserve every scrap of biodiversity as priceless while we learn to use it and come to understand what it means… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
I will defend the absolute value of Mozart over Miley Cyrus, of course I will, but we should be wary of false… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
Civilization has ceased to be that delicate flower which was preserved and painstakingly cultivated in one or two sheltered areas of a… — Claude Levi-Strauss Copy Share Image
If we pollute the air, water and soil that keep us alive and well, and destroy the biodiversity that allows natural systems… — David Suzuki Copy Share Image
We share this planet with many species. It is our responsibility to protect them, both for their sakes and our own. — Pamela A. Matson Copy Share Image
For us, not cooperating in the monopoly regimes of intellectual property rights and patents and biodiversity - saying "no" to patents on… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
I can't imagine anything more important than air, water, soil, energy and biodiversity. These are the things that keep us alive. — David Suzuki Copy Share Image
An agricultural landscape produces food but it also provides water, requires biodiversity to underpin soil function, pollination and other useful services, and… — Tim Benton Copy Share Image
I came to all the realizations about sustainability and biodiversity because I fell in love with the way food tastes. That was… — Alice Waters Copy Share Image
It is important to recognize that behind the razzmatazz of consumerism, we all remain dependent on basic natural resources - land, air,… — Klaus Topfer Copy Share Image
Food security is an authentically human requirement. Guaranteeing it for present and future generations also means safeguarding ourselves against the uncontrolled exploitation… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
Within you there is a stillness and sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourself — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
For if one link in nature's chain might be lost, another might be lost, until the whole of things will vanish by… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The flow from knowledge to action draws upon the complete person with his or her catalyst and synergistic potential. — Ralph Nader Copy Share Image
If you go from the USA - which, relative to the rest of the world, is in pretty good shape in terms… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
“Dams also tend to be built in remote areas which are the last refuge for species that have been displaced by development… — Patrick McCully Copy Share Image
What an extraordinary time to be alive. We're the first people on our planet to have real choice: we can continue killing… — Frances Moore Lappé Copy Share Image
People still do not understand that a live fish is more valuable than a dead one, and that destructive fishing techniques are… — Sylvia Earle Copy Share Image
I think that the environmental movement is wisely moving away from a largely emotion-based argument for the spiritual or intrinsic value of… — Edward Norton Copy Share Image
We advocate biodiversity for biodiversity's sake. It may take our extinction to set things straight. — David Foreman Copy Share Image
“Somewhere close I knew spear-nosed bats flew through the tree crowns in search of fruit, palm vipers coiled in ambush in the… — Edward O. Wilson Copy Share Image
We are into the opening stages of a human-caused biotic holocaust-a wholesale elimination of species-that could leave the planet impoverished for at… — Norman Myers Copy Share Image
