Yet, despite our many advances, our environment is still threatened by a range of problems, including global climate change, energy dependence on… — Dan Lipinski 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
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
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
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
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
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
If we can successfully lift the stranglehold of bureaucracy and old ways of thinking, we can see some real innovation in biodiversity… — Mindy Baha El Din 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
The number of people displaced by dams is estimated at between 40 million and 80 million, most of them in China and… — Paul Brown 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… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
“The activities of La Condamine, Humboldt, Wallace, Bates, and other such explorers touched on only the tiniest fraction of the vastness of… — Kurt Johnson 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
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
“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
Biodiversity can't be maintained by protecting a few species in a zoo, or by preserving greenbelts or national parks. To function properly,… — Donella Meadows Copy Share Image
The influence of the senses have in men overpowered the thought to the degree that the walls of time and space have… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
This is the assembly of life that took a billion years to evolve. It has eaten the storms - folded them into… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
And somehow mother nature manages to create this incredible biosphere, to create this incredibly rich environment of animals and plants with this… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
The evolution of the cosmos invokes in me a sense of mystery; the increase in biodiversity invokes the response of humility; and… — Ursula Goodenough Copy Share Image
There are more effective ways of tackling environmental problems including global warming, proliferation of plastics, urban sprawl, and the loss of biodiversity… — Preston Manning Copy Share Image
To many people, 'biodiversity' is almost synonymous with the word 'nature,' and 'nature' brings to mind steamy forests and the big creatures… — Cary Fowler Copy Share Image
Our world is evolving without consideration, and the result is a loss of biodiversity, energy issues, congestion in cities. But geography, if… — Jack Dangermond 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
What little wilderness remains displays the patterns we must return to, if our species and as many others as now remain are… — Stephanie Mills Copy Share Image
We are committed with our lives to building a different model and a different future for humanity, the Earth, and other species.… — Maude Barlow Copy Share Image
If man has not found ways to deal with environmental problems such as water and air pollution by 1998, it will be… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
It is about time that the religious and environmental faithful joined forces. No one wins when divisive politics pits the right to… — Alex Bruce Copy Share Image
It's worse than slave trade because what is being traded is the very knowledge that makes survival possible for 80 percent of… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
When the forest is destroyed, when the river is dammed, when the biodiversity is stolen, when fields are waterlogged or turned saline… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
