Lake Baikal in Russia has 25 percent of the freshwater resources of the world. Sixty-five percent of the Russian ecosystems are in… — Mikhail Gorbachev Copy Share Image
If we do nothing, we still get to a post-carbon future, but it will be bleak. However, if we plan the transition,… — Richard Heinberg Copy Share Image
The destruction of aquatic ecosystem health, and the increasing water scarcity, are in my opinion the most pressing environmental problems facing human… — Maude Barlow Copy Share Image
We are reducing the number of relationships. We are slowly but surely consuming the massive reserves of energy that have been accumulating… — Gunter Pauli Copy Share Image
Often we treat certain aspects of ourselves as junk, having no value. We try to throw parts of ourselves in the garbage.… — Stephen Schwartz Copy Share Image
Finally, since human beings are uniquely capable of producing materials not found in nature, environmental degradation may be due to the resultant… — Barry Commoner Copy Share Image
We need to start looking at having a way of managing the whole ecosystem, because you can't pick away at it piece… — Ted Danson Copy Share Image
No phenomenon can be isolated, but has repercussions through every aspect of our lives. We are learning that we are a fundamental… — Arthur Erickson 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
Oil depletion and climate change will create an entirely new context in which political struggles will be played out. Within that context,… — Richard Heinberg Copy Share Image
Cities should function more like ecosystems, or even metabolisms. When we build, we should be thinking about how we can integrate into… — Annalee Newitz Copy Share Image
The early Triassic was a period when the planet was recovering from the worst mass extinction it had ever known - that… — Annalee Newitz Copy Share Image
Scientists have been saying, for an awfully long time, that we're all interconnected. Scientists would use the word 'ecosystem' to express that… — Naomi Oreskes Copy Share Image
I think one of the most important investments an organization like TNC [The Nature Conservancy] can make is in helping build local… — Edward Norton Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
There is a massive ecosystem that has to get built that looks like a biosphere. And the various parts of that biosphere… — Juan Enriquez Copy Share Image
It is folly to think that we can destroy one species and ecosystem after another and not affect humanity. When we save… — Joel Sartore Copy Share Image
In calling society an ecological system we are not merely using an analogy; society is an example of the general concept of… — Kenneth E. Boulding 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
I'd like to be proven wrong firstly on the difficulty of building a self-sustaining closed circuit ecosystem in space that can support… — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
The most important thing we can do to save our oceans is to dramatically expand our efforts to establish new marine protected… — Serge Dedina Copy Share Image
Sloths actually are like furry living ecosystems all by themselves! Algae grows on their fur and they are also home to "sloth… — Ann Burton Copy Share Image
It's a beautiful aspect of narrative construction, hunting for the right images and metaphors to render our character's hearts/minds/souls as though they're… — Joshua Mohr Copy Share Image
In the time of the sacred sites and the crashing of ecosystems and worlds, it may be worth not making a commodity… — Winona LaDuke Copy Share Image
What's sad is that nobody knows the constitution of the ecosystem that has just been destroyed. Is it an important future food?… — Horst Rechelbacher Copy Share Image
Anyplace of work where you have a cross section of work, you have mini-ecosystem. A little representation of what the planet is.… — Ryan Reynolds Copy Share Image
I am passionate about making sure that we collectively and proactively preserve all of the world's most iconic coastal and oceanic wild… — Serge Dedina Copy Share Image
Volunteers are the backbone, heart, and soul of the restoration movement. And whatever the eventual results of their labors may be, working… — William K. Stevens Copy Share Image
Ecology is often confused with environmentalism, while in fact, environmentalism often leaves out the fact that people, too, can be a legitimate… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
The key to our oldest woodland is that it has been cut down and regrown, in some cases as often as 50… — Monty Don Copy Share Image
The thing the ecologically illiterate don't realize about an ecosystem is that it's a system. A system! A system maintains a certain… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
Genres are like the surface of the ocean. There are waves and things moving, but you don't instantly see all the reefs… — Charlie Jane Anders Copy Share Image
I find it quite useful to think of a free-market economy - or partly free market economy - as sort of the… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
We don't know nearly enough about the complexities of Nature. If we think we can eliminate natural ecosystems and substitute prosthetic devices,… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
The iWatch will fill a gaping hole in the Apple ecosystem. It will facilitate and coordinate not only the activities of all… — Bruce Tognazzini Copy Share Image
Ocean energy can contribute a great deal toward the protection or our atmosphere - without damaging marine ecosystems that are equally vital… — Fred Krupp Copy Share Image
There is a deep interconnectedness of all life on earth, from the tiniest organisms, to the largest ecosystems, and absolutely between each… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The destruction of the natural beauty, the ecosystems, and the majesty of mountains affect us in ways we're not even aware of.… — Gloria Reuben Copy Share Image
Nature is good at connectivity. The impact of diverse human activities is observed and absorbed throughout nature. Everything is linked. Nature has… — Jonas Gahr Store Copy Share Image