Biodiversity Quotes

73 Biodiversity quotes by 54 unique authors

It is important to recognize that behind the razzmatazz of consumerism, we all remain dependent on basic natural resources - land, air, water and biodiversity… — Klaus Topfer
You begin paying more attention to what you're seeing when you know the names... If you don't know the names of plant and animal species… — Robert Bateman
When I hear of the destruction of a species, I feel just as if all the works of some great writer have perished. — Theodore Roosevelt
Food security is an authentically human requirement. Guaranteeing it for present and future generations also means safeguarding ourselves against the uncontrolled exploitation of natural resources.… — Pope Benedict XVI
I think that the environmental movement is wisely moving away from a largely emotion-based argument for the spiritual or intrinsic value of Nature with a… — Edward Norton
Yet, despite our many advances, our environment is still threatened by a range of problems, including global climate change, energy dependence on unsustainable fossil fuels,… — Dan Lipinski
If we pollute the air, water and soil that keep us alive and well, and destroy the biodiversity that allows natural systems to function, no… — David Suzuki
Turtles are very stable and have been around forever. But they have problems adapting. When humans came along, turtles came under serious threat. Biodiversity is… — Linus Torvalds
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
Even if we could grow our way out of the crisis and delay the inevitable and painful reconciliation of virtual and real wealth, there is… — Herman E. Daly
I will defend the absolute value of Mozart over Miley Cyrus, of course I will, but we should be wary of false dichotomies. You do… — Stephen Fry
The poverty fighters resent the climate-change folks; climate folks hold summits without reference to biodiversity; the food advocates resist the biodiversity protectors. They all need… — Thomas Friedman
Whether we consciously realize it or not, the biodiversity with which we are most familiar, and the biodiversity with which we have most intimate historical,… — Cary Fowler
Biodiversity starts in the distant past and it points toward the future. — Frans Lanting
We see evidence that lakes and forests and wetlands can have different equilibria - so you have a savanna system that may be stable and… — Johan Rockstrom
Our food is safer and our diets are more diverse than ever before; production methods are becoming increasingly sustainable, clean and efficient; and we are… — Louise Fresco
People still do not understand that a live fish is more valuable than a dead one, and that destructive fishing techniques are taking a wrecking… — Sylvia Earle
I came to all the realizations about sustainability and biodiversity because I fell in love with the way food tastes. That was it. And because… — Alice Waters
Captain Falco saw the diminishment of biodiversity in our oceans over a span of nearly seven decades. He was dedicated to the protection of life… — Paul Watson
Collective human actions are transforming, even ravaging, the biosphere - perhaps irreversibly - through global warming and loss of biodiversity. — Martin Rees
I also have an idea for a book on biodiversity, and why and how we should be conserving it. — Ken Thompson
I am a possibilist. I believe that humanity is master of its own fate... Before we can change direction, we have to question many of… — Robert Bateman
The way you can go to Paris or Beijing and everywhere there's a McDonald's hamburger, this is the ecological quivalent of franchised life-forms. Every place… — Chuck Palahniuk

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