Biodiversity Quotes

73 quotes by 62 authors

It is that range of biodiversity that we must care for - the whole thing - rather than just one or two stars. — David Attenborough
We're losing biodiversity globally at an alarming rate, and we need a cornucopia of different plants and animals, for the planet's health and our own. — Diane Ackerman
The wealth of the nation is its air, water, soil, forests, minerals, rivers, lakes, oceans, scenic beauty, wildlife habitats and biodiversity... that's all there is.… — Gaylord Nelson
It's the next annihilation of vast numbers of species. It is happening now, and we, the human race, are its cause — Richard Leakey
Civilization has ceased to be that delicate flower which was preserved and painstakingly cultivated in one or two sheltered areas of a soil rich in… — Claude Levi-Strauss
The essential role of the environment is still marginal in discussions about poverty. While we continue to debate these initiatives, environmental degradation, including the loss… — Wangari Maathai
What little wilderness remains displays the patterns we must return to, if our species and as many others as now remain are to persist here… — Stephanie Mills
We share this planet with many species. It is our responsibility to protect them, both for their sakes and our own. — Pamela A. Matson
We are into the opening stages of a human-caused biotic holocaust-a wholesale elimination of species-that could leave the planet impoverished for at least five million… — Norman Myers
Without knowing it, we utilize hundreds of products each day that owe their origin to wild animals and plants. Indeed our welfare is intimately tied… — Norman Myers
We develop our beautiful planet in such a way that we brush aside the species... we risk creating a wasteland, where our aspirations will ultimately… — Queen Noor of Jordan
Each species on our planet plays a role in the healthy functioning of natural ecosystems, on which humans depend. — William H. Schlesinger
The bulldozer and not the atomic bomb may turn out to be the most destructive invention of the 20th century. — Philip Shabecoff
Cultivating and conserving diversity is no luxury in our times: it is a survival imperative. — Vandana Shiva
Even if we act immediately, the world is doomed to lose many of its animal and plant species and this inturn will reduce the ability… — Achim Steiner
An Armageddon is approaching at the beginning of the third millennium. But it is not the cosmic war and fiery collapse of mankind foretold in… — E. O. Wilson
Plant genetic resources are seldom 'raw materials'; they are the expression of the current wisdom of farmers who have played a highly significant role in… — Melaku Worede
No piecemeal solution is going to prevent the collapse of whole societies and ecosystems ... a radical re-thinking of our values, priorities and political systems… — Maude Barlow
We find ourselves ethically destitute just when, for the first time, we are faced with ultimacy, the irreversible closing down of the earth's functioning in… — Thomas Berry
Are we to regard the world of nature simply as a storehouse to be robbed for the immediate benefit of man? — Kenneth E. Boulding

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