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
Every cell in your body is seeking fulfillment through joy, beauty, love and appreciation. — Deepak Chopra 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
In the area of species protection, we should concern ourselves with what is right as opposed to what might be easier, or… — Richard Leakey 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
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 have built a greenhouse, a human greenhouse, where once there bloomed a sweet and wild garden. — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
We cannot win this battle to save species and environments without forging an emotional bond between ourselves and nature as well -… — Stephen Jay Gould 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
With biobanking there's just another tool available to make sure that the land we actually conserve has better biodiversity values. It's usually… — Frank Sartor Copy Share Image
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
An Armageddon is approaching at the beginning of the third millennium. But it is not the cosmic war and fiery collapse of… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
At the end of the century, humans will look back at our impact on the planet and World War II will be… — Louie Psihoyos Copy Share Image
Human beings are often at their best when responding to immediate crises - car accidents, house fires, hurricanes. We are less effective… — David Suzuki Copy Share Image
The system of seeds based on monoculture is wrong and inappropriate. The biodiverse system has produced more food, and biodiversity means that… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
When I was very young, biology, the diversity of life, was one of my main interests. I know there's this image people… — Leonardo DiCaprio Copy Share Image
It's not just global warming, it's not just a loss of biodiversity, it's not just the pollution of our oceans and the… — Leonardo DiCaprio 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Are we to regard the world of nature simply as a storehouse to be robbed for the immediate benefit of man? ...… — Kenneth E. Boulding 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
Instead of trying to understand agriculture in its own terms, acknowledge that agriculture ultimately comes out of nature. Right now agriculture is… — Wes Jackson Copy Share Image
It's a phenomenon that started in the United States in which corporations make claims on the life forms, biodiversity and innovations of… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
The preservation of biodiversity is not just a job for governments. International and non-governmental organisations, the private sector and each and every… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
We have environmental laws for a reason: to protect endangered biodiversity. And as a country that has one of the highest loss… — Richard Di Natale Copy Share Image
You begin paying more attention to what you're seeing when you know the names... If you don't know the names of plant… — Robert Bateman Copy Share Image
The byproduct of the main thrust to protect the biodiversity of a given place is that you get especially young people out… — Douglas Tompkins Copy Share Image
It should not be believed that all beings exist for the sake of the existence of man. On the contrary, all the… — Maimonides Copy Share Image
Wisdom: It's something that you know when you see it. You can recognize it, you can experience it. I have defined wisdom… — Jonas Salk Copy Share Image
Star Trek was an attempt to say that humanity will reach maturity and wisdom on the day that it begins not just… — Gene Roddenberry Copy Share Image
Biodiversity is the totality of all inherited variation in the life forms of Earth, of which we are one species. We study… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
The wealth of the nation is its air, water, soil, forests, minerals, rivers, lakes, oceans, scenic beauty, wildlife habitats and biodiversity... that's… — Gaylord Nelson Copy Share Image
Turtles are very stable and have been around forever. But they have problems adapting. When humans came along, turtles came under serious… — Linus Torvalds Copy Share Image
Just as the natural environment depends on biodiversity, so the human environment depends on cultural diversity, because no one civilization encompasses all… — Jonathan Sacks Copy Share Image
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