Alone Quote by Albert II, Prince of Monaco

Biodiversity is the greatest treasure we have... Its diminishment is to be prevented at all cost.

— Thomas Eisner

We must convince and empower people to adopt the conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity as their guiding principle.

— Klaus Topfer

We advocate biodiversity for biodiversity's sake. It may take our extinction to set things straight.

— David Foreman

We should preserve every scrap of biodiversity as priceless while we learn to use it and come to understand what it means to humanity.

— E. O. Wilson

It is folly to think that we can destroy one species and ecosystem after another and not affect humanity. When we save species, we're…

— Joel Sartore

Our food is safer and our diets are more diverse than ever before; production methods are becoming increasingly sustainable, clean and efficient; and we…

— Louise Fresco

“The bottom line answer to the question about why biodiversity matters is fairly simple: The rest of the living world can get along without…

— Sylvia A. Earle

Protecting biodiversity is just as important and critical to the survival of mankind as stabilizing the climate. Species protection and climate are interdependent.

— Klaus Topfer

The value of biodiversity is that it makes our ecosystems more resilient, which is a prerequisite for stable societies; its wanton destruction is akin…

— Johan Rockstrom

Biological diversity is the key to the maintenance of the world as we know it... Eliminate one species, and another increases to take its…

— E. O. Wilson

The preservation of biodiversity is not just a job for governments. International and non-governmental organisations, the private sector and each and every individual have…

— Kofi Annan

It is critical to realize that underlying the extermination of nature is the marginalization of human beings. If we are to save what is…

— Paul Hawken