Ecosystem Quote by Amy Seidl

“Maybe the only explanation for people who have to ask why the Florida grasshopper sparrow matters is this: It matters not because it is…

— Peter P. Marra

Nature herself has not provided the most graceful end for her creatures. What becomes of all these birds that people the air and forest…

— Henry David Thoreau

“like brightly colored sparrows in and out of hedgerows.”

— Jojo Moyes

Birds are an ecological litmus paper.

— Roger Tory Peterson

I am only a sparrow amongst a great flock of sparrows.

— Evita Peron

The distribution of plants in a given locality is not more marked and defined than that of the birds. Show a botanist a landscape,…

— John Burroughs

To the seeing eye life is mostly Sparrows.

— Will Cuppy

The earth says have a place, be what that place requires; hear the sound the birds imply and see as deep as ridges go…

— William Stafford

“Move with a spring & vegetable swiftness, Seed-case & burr & tremulous grasses, a grove—vocal in the wind—”

— Ronald Johnson

And in thy own sermon, thou That the sparrow falls dost allow, It shall not cause me any alarm; For neither so comes the…

— George MacDonald

“We are accustomed to say in New England that few and fewer pigeons visit us every year. Our forests furnish no mast for them.…

— Henry David Thoreau

“In the rain forest, no niche lies unused. No emptiness goes unfilled. No gasp of sunlight goes untrapped. In a million vest pockets, a…

— Diane Ackerman