After the final no there comes a yes And on that yes the future world depends. — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
Natural species are the library from which genetic engineers can work. — Thomas Lovejoy Copy Share Image
Brazil has one of the greatest natural patrimonies in terms of biodiversity. — Guilherme Leal Copy Share Image
“A lifetime can be spent in a Magellanic voyage around the trunk of a single tree.” — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
Our health relies entirely on the vitality of our fellow species on Earth. — Harrison Ford 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
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
We advocate biodiversity for biodiversity's sake. It may take our extinction to set things straight. — David Foreman 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
Cultivating and conserving diversity is no luxury in our times: it is a survival imperative. — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
We're losing biodiversity globally at an alarming rate, and we need a cornucopia of different plants and animals, for the planet's health… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
To survive, humans need food, water, and air. Yet biodiversity, the Earth's bodies of water, and the planet's atmosphere are all under… — Graciela Chichilnisky Copy Share Image
We have built a greenhouse, a human greenhouse, where once there bloomed a sweet and wild garden. — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
“The bottom line answer to the question about why biodiversity matters is fairly simple: The rest of the living world can get… — Sylvia A. Earle Copy Share Image
Captain Falco saw the diminishment of biodiversity in our oceans over a span of nearly seven decades. He was dedicated to the… — Paul Watson Copy Share Image
Even if we planted a tree on every square yard available in the planet by the end of the century we would… — Graciela Chichilnisky Copy Share Image
At a physical level, India is blessed with a rich biodiversity of flora and fauna. We have a predictable monsoon, and a… — Rohini Nilekani Copy Share Image
Finding mechanisms for putting carbon back into landscapes enhances biodiversity. More biodiverse ecosystems store more carbon, more securely and are more resilient… — Will Steffen Copy Share Image
Without knowing it, we utilize hundreds of products each day that owe their origin to wild animals and plants. Indeed our welfare… — Norman Myers Copy Share Image
2010 is the International Year of Biodiversity. We can classify our crops into those which are climate resilient and those which are… — M. S. Swaminathan Copy Share Image
Our food is safer and our diets are more diverse than ever before; production methods are becoming increasingly sustainable, clean and efficient;… — Louise Fresco Copy Share Image
First thing the developer has to do is to get an assessment of the threatened species, of the ecological values of that… — Frank Sartor Copy Share Image
Even if we act immediately, the world is doomed to lose many of its animal and plant species and this inturn will… — Achim Steiner Copy Share Image
Plant genetic resources are seldom 'raw materials'; they are the expression of the current wisdom of farmers who have played a highly… — Melaku Worede Copy Share Image
The way you can go to Paris or Beijing and everywhere there's a McDonald's hamburger, this is the ecological quivalent of franchised… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
We have a very old conservation movement, particularly in the United States, which has focused on campaigns to protect endangered species: the… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
We find ourselves ethically destitute just when, for the first time, we are faced with ultimacy, the irreversible closing down of the… — Thomas Berry Copy Share Image
Natural species are the library from which genetic engineers can work. Genetic engineers don't make new genes, they rearrange existing ones. Speaking… — Thomas Lovejoy Copy Share Image
I want to do the right things - I want to plant trees, I want to make sure that the indigenous forests… — Wangari Maathai Copy Share Image
Biodiversity starts in the distant past and it points toward the future. — Frans Lanting Copy Share Image
It's the next annihilation of vast numbers of species. It is happening now, and we, the human race, are its cause — Richard Leakey Copy Share Image
We must convince and empower people to adopt the conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity as their guiding principle. — Klaus Topfer 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
