Ecosystems Quotes · Page 2

Families are ecosystems. Each life grows in response to the lives around it

— Mary Schmich

I'd like to help repair the earth's ecosystems, and to fully live until I'm fully dead.

— Martha Beck

If we brought the mammoth back to Siberia, maybe that would be good for the ecosystems that are changing because of climate…

— Hendrik Poinar

Trying to save ecosystems has more to do with changing egosystems.

— Don Rittner

There are ecosystems like coral reefs [at risk] through ocean acidification. Those are valuable things that we should protect.

— Bill Gates

An ecosystem that has the maximum amount of diversity is the richest.

— Robert Greene

The current market ecosystem is not sustainable, and significant changes are coming one way or another.

— John Ramsay

I think Kansas City has one of the strongest entrepreneurial ecosystems in the country.

— Sharice Davids

Sometimes it's hard to take everyday concerns seriously when you think about vanished ecosystems that existed 300 million years ago and were…

— Annalee Newitz

The vast majority of species that are vanishing, we haven't even discovered yet. How can you possibly put them back in nature…

— E. O. Wilson

There are three types of biomimicry - one is copying form and shape, another is copying a process, like photosynthesis in a…

— Janine Benyus

It's the poorer people in tropical zones who will get really hit by climate change - as well as some ecosystems, which…

— Bill Gates

“People are like their own ecosystems, little planets made up of islands and climates and forecasts. Some of us carry jagged mountain…

— Katie Kacvinsky

The more people you run into, the greater your exposure, the easier it is to understand and empathize with other people. So…

— James Scott

No piecemeal solution is going to prevent the collapse of whole societies and ecosystems ... a radical re-thinking of our values, priorities…

— Maude Barlow

We cannot interfere in one area of the ecosystem without paying due attention to both the consequences of such interference in other…

— Pope John Paul II

Now is not the time to repudiate environmental balance, but rather it is the time for all of us to work together…

— Robert Redford

Personal computing today is a rich ecosystem encompassing massive PC-based data centers, notebook and Tablet PCs, handheld devices, and smart cell phones.…

— Bill Gates

“In a world where very few people care if you live or die, there is a light that shines in the distance.…

— Shannon L. Alder

If enough species are extinguished, will the ecosystems collapse, and will the extinction of most other species follow soon afterward? The only…

— E. O. Wilson

The early Triassic was a period when the planet was recovering from the worst mass extinction it had ever known - that…

— Annalee Newitz

I think one of the most important investments an organization like TNC [The Nature Conservancy] can make is in helping build local…

— Edward Norton

Oil depletion and climate change will create an entirely new context in which political struggles will be played out. Within that context,…

— Richard Heinberg

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

The First Amendment has the same role in my life as a citizen and a writer as the sun has in our…

— Michael Chabon

In many environments, take away the ants and there would be partial collapses in many of the land ecosystems.

— E. O. Wilson

Sensory perception is the silken web that binds our separate nervous systems into the encompassing ecosystem.

— David Abram

Putting our ecosystem in great peril is certainly not a part of Chinese culture that I know.

— Yao Ming

I am really sobered by what's happening to ecosystems around our planet and to the wildlife that is to be found there.

— Jeff Corwin

“The aquatic environment must be safeguarded by men. God created mankind to care for the environment and all the living resources.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

Young entrepreneurs will make a difference in the Indian ecosystem.

— Ratan Tata

You want to find the really crazy but still somewhat reasonable outliers within the customer ecosystem.

— Aaron Levie

We will instead have to measure our economy by the health of the ecosystems and human communities where we do our work.

— Wendell Berry

The more widely you can spread this notion of achieving ROI by preserving and improving ecosystems, the better.

— Ramez Naam

One degree turns out to be enough to really unhinge all sorts of earth's ecosystems.

— Bill McKibben

We are all together in this, we are all together in this single living ecosystem called planet earth.

— Sylvia Earle

As species are exterminated by shifting climate zones, ecosystems can collapse, destroying more species.

— James Hansen

“God gave man the authority to rule and protect all the animals in the aquatic ecosystems.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

Basically, I think 21st century conservation is moving toward preserving ecosystems by dealing with the needs of people.

— Edward Norton

You can't start with imbalance and end with peace, be that in your own body, in an ecosystem or between a government…

— Ani DiFranco